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Download or read book William Marshal written by Sidney Painter and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2020-02-03 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1933. As mediaeval society was dominated by the feudal caste, a biography that depicts the position, activities, manners, and thoughts of a member of that class might do much to elucidate the history of the period. This is what Sidney Painter had in mind when he wrote a William Marshal: Knight-Errant, Baron, and Regent of England. The subject has proved a peculiarly fortunate one. The fourth son of John fitz Gilbert, marshal of the king's court, William for the first forty years of his life was a landless knight who devoted most of his time and energy to tournaments. In the year 1189 by his marriage to the daughter and heiress of Earl Richard of Pembroke, William became a great feudal lord with fiefs in Normandy, England, Wales, and Ireland. Thus his biography depicts the two extremes of feudal society—the landless knight and the rich baron. Finally in 1216 he was chosen regent of England for the young king, Henry III, and his biography becomes for three years the history of England.
Download or read book William Marshal written by David Crouch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruthless opportunist, astute courtier, manipulative politician and brutal, efficient soldier: this is William Marshal as portrayed by David Crouch in his widely acclaimed biography of 'the Marshal'. With the new translation of the contemporary epic poem, Histoire de Giuillaume de Mareschal, and newly discovered documents, David Crouch has substantitvely re-worked and expanded his original volume. Now fully illustrated, this second edition represents a complete reappraisal of the career and character of this remarkable man, and provides a riveting account of the realities of aristocratic life in the age of chivalry.
Book Synopsis William Marshal's Wife by : Julia A Hickey
Download or read book William Marshal's Wife written by Julia A Hickey and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The real story of Isabel de Clare, William Marshal's wife, a powerful woman who was a key figure in the history of Ireland, England, Wales and Normandy. Isabel de Clare, the descendant of kings, dukes and freebooters, was one of the wealthiest heiresses in Henry II’s kingdom thanks to the ambitions of her father Richard, Strongbow, de Clare and his marriage to Aoife, daughter of the last king of Leinster. Nature gave her beauty and intelligence. Destiny made her a key figure in the history of Ireland, England, Wales and Normandy. Isabel’s role as a daughter, wife, mother and countess in her own right is the story of medieval aristocratic women and the power that they could wield. Married to a complete stranger when she was just eighteen on the orders of Richard the Lionheart, she found love in the arms of William Marshal - known as the greatest knight who ever lived. Together they established powerbases in Ireland and in Wales, beat off their foes; negotiated the perils of serving King John; and built a powerful kinship network. Marshal declared, ‘I have no claim to anything save through her.’ She was a peerless wife and remarkable woman who played the political game alongside her husband serving successive Plantagenet monarchs, consolidating and extending her inheritance as well as giving birth to ten children. Like her mother before her and her brood of Marshall daughters after her, she was a prize, not a pawn, who knew how to balance her role as a wife and mother alongside the brutal politics of the period.
Download or read book William Marshal written by Georges Duby and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2011-02-09 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Georges Duby, one of this century's great medieval historians, has brought to life with exceptional brilliance and imagination William Marshal, adviser to the Plantagenets, knight extraordinaire, the flower of chivalry. A marvel of historical reconstruction, William Marshal is based on a biographical poem written in the thirteenth century, and offers an evocation of chivalric life—the contests and tournaments, the rites of war, the daily details of medieval existence—unlike any we have ever seen.
Book Synopsis The Acts and Letters of the Marshal Family by : David Crouch
Download or read book The Acts and Letters of the Marshal Family written by David Crouch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-20 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The surviving documents of the Marshals, the most powerful magnate dynasty in thirteenth-century England, Ireland and Wales.
Book Synopsis Geoffroy of Villehardouin, Marshal of Champagne by : Theodore Evergates
Download or read book Geoffroy of Villehardouin, Marshal of Champagne written by Theodore Evergates and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-15 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geoffroy of Villehardouin, Marshal of Champagne by Theodore Evergates traces the remarkable life of Geoffroy of Villehardouin (c. 1148–c. 1217) from his earliest years in Champagne through his last years in Greece after the crusade. The fourth son of a knight, Geoffroy became marshal of Champagne, principal negotiator in organizing the Fourth Crusade, chief of staff of the expedition to and conquest of Constantinople, garrison commander of Constantinople and, in his late fifties, field commander defending the Latin settlement in the Byzantine empire against invading Bulgarian armies and revolting Greek cities. Known for his diplomatic skills and rectitude, he served as the chief military advisor to Count Thibaut III of Champagne and later to Emperor Henry of Constantinople. Geoffroy is remarkable as well for dictating the earliest war memoir in medieval Europe, which is also the earliest prose narrative in Old French. Addressed to a home audience in Champagne, he described what he did, what he saw, and what he heard during his eight years on crusade and especially during the fraught period after the conquest of Constantinople. His memoir, The Book of the Conquest of Constantinople, furnishes a commander's retrospective account of the main events and inner workings of the crusade—the innumerable meetings and speeches, the conduct (not always commendable) of the barons, and the persistent discontent within the army—as well as a celebration of his own deeds as a diplomat and a military commander.
Book Synopsis The History of the Ancient Town and Borough of Newbury in the County of Berks by : Walter Money
Download or read book The History of the Ancient Town and Borough of Newbury in the County of Berks written by Walter Money and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The New Knighthood by : Malcolm Barber
Download or read book The New Knighthood written by Malcolm Barber and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the loss of its central archive in the sixteenth century, the Order left many records of its existence as the spearhead of crusading activity in Palestine and Syria, as the administrator of a great network of preceptories and lands in the Latin west, and as a banker and ship-owner.
Download or read book Richard I written by John Gillingham and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century historians such as Hume, Gibbon and Stubbs criticized Richard for his neglect of domestic government and policy, and cast him as a careless ruler and bad husband."--BOOK JACKET. "Harnessing the latest sources and interpretations, John Gillingham provides a new assessment of Richard I, looking at what matters in history as well as what matters in legend."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania by : Pennsylvania. Supreme court
Download or read book Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania written by Pennsylvania. Supreme court and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Publications of the Thoresby Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of the English People by : John Richard Green
Download or read book History of the English People written by John Richard Green and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Justiceship England 1066-1232 by : F. West
Download or read book Justiceship England 1066-1232 written by F. West and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-05-12 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the height of his power and influence the justiciar was the king's chief political and judicial officer, superintending the administrative machinery and acting as regent in the king's absence abroad. Dr West traces the history of the office from the first need for the delegation of royal power under William 1 until the Anglo-Norman dominion broke up and government became too complicated.
Book Synopsis The Ancestry of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, and of His Royal Highness Prince Albert by : George Russell French
Download or read book The Ancestry of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, and of His Royal Highness Prince Albert written by George Russell French and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Assassin King written by Will Adams and published by Opalmaze. This book was released on 2023-09-04 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the body of Dunstan Warne is found buried in one of his own fields, it triggers not only a murder investigation led by outcast detective Ben Elias, but also a race to find the prize Warne had dedicated his life to searching for – the fabulous crown jewels and priceless other treasure lost in the Wash by King John over eight hundred years before. As Warne’s niece Anna teams up with celebrated local TV reporter Oliver Merchant in an effort to solve the ancient mystery, they quickly discover that Warne Farm holds other shocking secrets too, and that there are powerful forces who’ll stop at nothing to keep them hidden.
Book Synopsis History of the English People by : Green
Download or read book History of the English People written by Green and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Anecdotes of Painting in England; with some Account of the Principal Artists by : Horace Walpole
Download or read book Anecdotes of Painting in England; with some Account of the Principal Artists written by Horace Walpole and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
