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History of William Marshal, The

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The History of William Marshal is the earliest surviving biography of a medieval knight – indeed it is the first biography of a laym an in the vernacular in European history. Composed in verse in the 1220s just a few years after his death, it is a major primary sou rce not simply for its subject’s life but for the exceptionally st ormy period he had had to navigate. It could hardly be other than

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The History of William Marshal is the earliest surviving biography of a medieval knight – indeed it is the first biography of a laym an in the vernacular in European history. Composed in verse in the 1220s just a few years after his death, it is a major primary sou rce not simply for its subject’s life but for the exceptionally st ormy period he had had to navigate. It could hardly be other than

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