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The Acts and Letters of the Marshal Family David Crouch (University of Hull)

The Acts and Letters of the Marshal Family By David Crouch (University of Hull)

The Acts and Letters of the Marshal Family by David Crouch (University of Hull)


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An annotated collection of the surviving letter and charters of the Marshals, the most powerful magnate dynasty in thirteenth-century England, Wales and Ireland. The Marshals were central to Angevin politics for over three decades, including in the court of Henry III and in the establishment of Magna Carta.

The Acts and Letters of the Marshal Family Summary

The Acts and Letters of the Marshal Family: Marshals of England and Earls of Pembroke, 1145-1248 by David Crouch (University of Hull)

This collection represents the surviving output of the clerks of the men and women of the most powerful magnate dynasty in England, Wales and Ireland in the thirteenth century. Its greatness was short-lived, but as a result of the Marshals' spread of interests and marriage alliances the charters and letters edited here embrace a remarkable diversity of lordships and societies. That fact and the central place the two Earls William Marshal held at the court of the young Henry III between 1216 and 1231, playing a decisive role in the establishment of Magna Carta, give this collection a unique interest for medieval historians of Britain and France, more so perhaps than for any other contemporary magnate family.

About David Crouch (University of Hull)

David Crouch has been Professor of Medieval History at the University of Hull since 2000. He was made a Fellow of the British Academy in 2014. He is co-editor of the three-volume History of William Marshal (2003-7), and author of William Marshal (1990), King Stephen (2000), Tournament (2000), The Birth of Nobility (2005) and The English Aristocracy, 1070-1272 (2013). The third edition of William Marshal is to be published in 2016.

Table of Contents

List of manuscript sources; List of abbreviations; Part I. The Marshal Family of Hamstead; Part II. Clerical Practice; Part III. Sigillography; Part IV. Editorial Principles; Part V. The Acts and Letters: 1. John Marshal the Elder and Younger; 2. William Marshal the Elder; 3. Countess Isabel; 4. William Marshal the Younger; 5. Countess Eleanor; 6. Richard Marshal; 7. Gilbert Marshal; 8. Walter Marshal; 9. Countess Margaret de Lacy; 10. Ansel Marshal; 11. Countess Matilda Bigot; Appendix I. Royal grants to the Marshal family; Appendix II. The marriage of William Marshal the Younger; Index to the Acts; Index.

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NPB9781107130036
9781107130036
1107130034
The Acts and Letters of the Marshal Family: Marshals of England and Earls of Pembroke, 1145-1248 by David Crouch (University of Hull)
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Hardback
Cambridge University Press
2015-08-20
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