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William Marshal - The Greatest Knight That Ever Lived (Paperback)
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William Marshal - The Greatest Knight That Ever Lived (Paperback)
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List price R173
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William Marshal, born about 1147, was the son of a minor lord who
held the hereditary title of 'Marshal', or head of the king's
security. He became a knight loyal to five kings, the most powerful
man in the kingdom, the hero of Magna Carta and a saviour of
England. At his funeral in the Temple Church, London, on 20 May
1219, he was described by the Archbishop of Canterbury as 'the
greatest knight in the world'. William's son commissioned a
biography of his father, The History of William Marshal, which
brings William vividly to life and is the fullest and most dramatic
such biography to reach us from the Middle Ages. The Rotunda of the
Temple Church still contains eight 13th-century effigies of knights
in armour. Three of the Marshals - William and two of his sons -
are known to have been buried in the Church. By the late 16th
century, antiquarians were trying to identify William's effigy
among them; and since 1843 one effigy in particular has been
universally accepted to be William's. This has recently been
disputed by a set of drawings, dating to c. 1610, discovered in
Washington, DC. These drawings show all the medieval effigies in
the Temple Church - and a further, long-lost gravestone which
matches the earliest descriptions of William's tomb. This raises a
fascinating question: has the real monument to William been lost?
This book will uncover the details of this latest discovery and
commemorate the greatest knight that ever lived.
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