England’s Greatest Knight: William Marshal | Human Voiced, No Ads

00:00:00 Introduction and Welcome 00:02:11 The Child Hostage: Stephen and John Marshal 00:08:39 Tournaments: Making a Living from the Lance 00:14:54 The Young King and the Scandal 00:21:44 The Incident at Le Mans and the Death of Henry II 00:27:14 The Great Marriage: Isabel de Clare 00:31:42 Through Richard and John: The Art of Survival 00:37:36 Regent of England: The Last Campaign 00:47:47 Legacy: What William Marshal Means Join this channel to get access to perks: @asmr_historian Support the channel on Patreon: Patreon: ASMRHistorian Merch: https://histmerch.shop/ Sources and Further Reading History of William Marshal (L'Histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal), translated by Nigel Bryant (2016). Boydell Press. (The first complete English translation of the primary source; Bryant's introduction is excellent, and the poem itself is one of the great documents of medieval social history.) Crouch, David. William Marshal: Knighthood, War and Chivalry, 1147–1219, 2nd ed. (2002). Longman. (The standard modern scholarly biography; rigorously documented, particularly strong on the political and institutional contexts of William's career.) Asbridge, Thomas. The Greatest Knight: The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, the Power Behind Five English Thrones (2014). Simon & Schuster. (The best accessible popular biography; Asbridge writes with pace and clarity while remaining scrupulous about the evidence.) Duby, Georges. William Marshal: The Flower of Chivalry, translated by Richard Howard (1985). Pantheon Books. (A short, brilliant meditation on William Marshal as a window into the real values and social structures of the twelfth-century knightly class; Duby's analytical intelligence transforms the biography into social history.) Painter, Sidney. William Marshal: Knight-Errant, Baron, and Regent of England (1933). Johns Hopkins University Press. (The first major modern biography in English; superseded in some details by Crouch but still valuable for its narrative and for its analysis of the tournament world.) Turner, Ralph V. and Heiser, Richard R. The Reign of Richard Lionheart (2000). Longman. (For the context of William's service under Richard I; particularly good on the administrative machinery that kept England functioning during Richard's absences.) Vincent, Nicholas. Magna Carta: A Very Short Introduction (2012). Oxford University Press. (For the context of Magna Carta and the baronial crisis that produced it; situates William Marshal's role in the events of 1215–1217.) Keen, Maurice. Chivalry (1984). Yale University Press. (The standard scholarly account of chivalry as a historical and social phenomenon; essential context for understanding the values that William Marshal embodied and the tradition the History was writing him into.) Strickland, Matthew. War and Chivalry: The Conduct and Perception of War in England and Normandy, 1066–1217 (1996). Cambridge University Press. (For the conduct of warfare and the code of honour that governed it; directly relevant to the major military incidents in William's life.) Church, Stephen. King John and the Road to Magna Carta (2015). Basic Books. (For John's reign and the political crisis through which William Marshal navigated with such difficulty; a sympathetic but honest account of the most problematic of William's masters.) Information sourced from Wiki, Gutenburg, JSTOR, primary and secondary sources. All information is congruent with archaeological and history evidence at the time of recording.