William Marshal : Knight-Errant, Baron, and Regent of England / Sidney Painter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Painter, Sidney, 1902-1960, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pembroke, William Marshal, Earl of, 1144?-1219.

Pembroke, William Marshal.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 308 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

William Marshal

Place of Publication:

Johns Hopkins University Press 2020

Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Title page

Table of Contents

I. John Fitz Gilbert

II. Squire and Bachelor

III. Knight-Errant

IV. "Familiaris Regis''

V. Associate Justiciar

VI. The King's Marshal

VII. Lord of Longueville

VIII. Lord of Leinster

IX. Earl of Pembroke

X. A Royalist General

XI. Regent of England

XII. The Death of a Baron

Index.

Notes:

Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (Project Muse, viewed December 22, 2022).

Includes index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8018-0517-1

1-4214-3322-2

OCLC:

1526850486