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Name William MARSHAL , Earl of Pembroke
Birth Date 1146149,153
Death Date May 14, 1219149,153
Death Place Caversham, Berkshire, England
Burial Place London, London, England149
Burial Memo Temple Church
Father John Fitzgilbert MARSHAL (?-1165)
Mother Sibyl DE SALISBURY
Spouses
1 Isabel DE CLARE , Countess Strigoil, Countess of Pembroke
Birth Date ca 1174149,153
Death Date 1220149,153
Burial Place England149,153
Burial Memo Tintern Abbey
Father Richard FitzGilbert DE CLARE , Earl of Pembroke, Lord of Leinster (ca1130-1176)
Mother Aoife MACMURROUGH , Countess of Ireland
Marriage Date Aug 1189149,153
Marriage Place London, London, England
Children Maud (?-1248)
Isabella (1200-1240)
Eva
Joan (?->1234)
Notes for William MARSHAL , Earl of Pembroke
He was the Marshal of England.149 He was named in the Magna Carta as an advisor to King John.153

"William Marshal was the Marshal of England, Protector of the Realm and Regent of England from 1216 to 1219. A man of superior ability and exemplary character, he served four British monarchs as a royal advisor and as a warrior of outstanding prowess. His life has been summarized in the biography by Sidney Painter: William Marshal: Baron, Knight-Errant, Baron and Regent of England, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1982 ISBN 0802064981.
"Richard Thomson in his An Historical Essay on the Magna Charta of King John, London, 1829; writes on Pages 288:
"'The Earl of Pembroke has received a noble character from all the historians who have mentioned him. He was termed through the world a most renowned and powerful Knight; Governor both of the realm and the King's person; a man of such worthiness, both in stoutness of stomach and martial knowledge, as England had few then which might be compared with him.'"153
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