Earl of Pembroke William Marshal was made a Templar Knight in 1219, served five kings and was one of the curators and signatories of the Magna Carta. Seven women from Lewes in Sussex spent 8,000 ...
Marshal had been knighted in 1166, and in 1189, he became Earl of Pembroke through his marriage to Isabel de Clare. After Marshal's death in 1219, he was eulogised by Stephen Langton, the ...
Jouster, warrior, diplomat and even twice de facto king, William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke died aged 73 this week 800 years ago. Although Anglo-Norman by birth, after his marriage, Chepstow ...
The castle as we see it today dates from the years after the Earldom of Pembroke was created in 1138 when the first Earl, Gilbert de Clare, decided to extend and improve the fortress. Gilbert's ...