William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, Master Marshal^[1]

1190 - 1231  (41 years)

• Name	William Marshal
  		Arms of William Marshal, Earl Pembroke
  Suffix	2nd Earl of Pembroke, Master Marshal
  Born	1190	Normandy, France   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Political	15 Jun 1215	Runnymeade, Surrey
  	Magna Carta
  	Marshal was one of the twenty-five baronial sureties for John I in the Magna Carta.
  		Magna Carta The Magna Carta gives early expression to the doctrine that became the Rule of Law. It was occasioned by John's arbitrary and capricious abuse of the English nobility: predatory practices involving inheritances, military service, and hostage taking, as well as confiscatory taxation, fees and fines. With the debacle at Bouvines, England's barons were empowered to move. Broken, John sued for peace but then appealed his concessions to Rome. "As a political tool," writes historian Thomas Asbridge, "it was defunct within three months, and by the end of the year its terms were regarded null and void by all parties." The Greatest Knight, 332. The majority of the Barons declared for Prince Louis of France who, in turn, began deploying an Anglo-French military force. The Royalists, however, were able to prevail, greatly assisted by the death of John and the accession of his nine-year-old heir, Henry III.
  Died	6 Apr 1231	Fawley, Buckinghamshire   [3]
  Buried	15 Apr 1231	Temple Church, London
  		Sir William Marshal Effigy at Temple Church, London
  		Temple Church "In 1161 [the 'Old' Temple] was sold to the Bishop of London and the Templars' central convent moved half a mile or so south, where the brothers built the 'New' Temple at a fashionable riverside address on Fleet Street. Here they had access to the busy waterways of the Thames, useful when the fastest way to travel to and from the City was by boat. On the road side, the New Temple was perched directly on the main thoroughfare connecting the mercantile heart of the City with Westminster, where the palace and the towering abbey were a hub for royal and religious business." Jones, The Templars, (New York: Viking, 2017), 194.
  Person ID	I566	Dickinson
  Last Modified	31 Oct 2017

  
  

  Father	William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke,   b. Abt 1147, Marlborough, Wiltshire, England ,   d. 14 May 1219, Caversham, Berkshire, England  (Age ~ 72 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Isabel de Clare, 4th Countess of Pembroke,   b. 1172, Pembrokeshire, Wales ,   d. 1220, Pembrokeshire, Wales  (Age 48 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Married	Jul or Aug 1189	London   [4, 5]
  	Wardship of Isabel was granted by Henry II to Marshal in the Spring of 1189.
  Family ID	F3125	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Alix de Béthune, Dame de Choques,   d. ca. 1216
  Married	9 Jul 1214  [6]
  	Date of contract. No issue.
  Last Modified	31 Oct 2017
  Family ID	F4566	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Eleanor of Leicester,   b. 1215, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England ,   d. 13 Apr 1275, Montargis Abbey, France  (Age 60 years)
  Married	23 Apr 1224
  	No issue. [3]
  Last Modified	31 Oct 2017
  Family ID	F155	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 1190 - Normandy, France Political - Magna Carta - 15 Jun 1215 - Runnymeade, Surrey Died - 6 Apr 1231 - Fawley, Buckinghamshire Buried - 15 Apr 1231 - Temple Church, London  = Link to Google Earth
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• Sources

  [S336463] Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families, Charles Cawley, (Online: The Foundation for Medieval Genealogy at http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/, 20XX), http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL1.htm#William5Pembrokedied1231. [S421] The Greatest Knight: The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, the Power Behind Five English Thrones, Thomas Asbridge, (New York: HarperCollins, 2014), 216. [S421] The Greatest Knight: The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, the Power Behind Five English Thrones, Thomas Asbridge, (New York: HarperCollins, 2014), 377. [S20] The Knight Who Saved England: William Marshal and the French Invasion, 1217, Richard Brooks, (Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing, 2014), 36, 92-93. [S421] The Greatest Knight: The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, the Power Behind Five English Thrones, Thomas Asbridge, (New York: HarperCollins, 2014), 195, 207ff. [S421] The Greatest Knight: The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, the Power Behind Five English Thrones, Thomas Asbridge, (New York: HarperCollins, 2014), 311.