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Historical person
1146–1219
William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke was an Anglo-Norman knight, magnate and regent celebrated as William Marshal. He served five English kings, fought in tournaments and wars, and acted as regent for the young Henry III after helping defeat the French invasion at Lincoln in 1217.
Richard Cullen’s Rebellion is set in England in 1213, King John faces opposition from his own barons while Prince Louis, son of Philip II of France, prepares to exploit the weakness of the English crown. Griff Hosker’s English Knight is set in a land teetering on the edge of chaos. The crown of England hangs by a thread. Other novels featuring William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke include Paul Bannister’s Siege, Paul Bannister’s Templar, Griff Hosker’s Baron of the North, Griff Hosker’s Crusader, and Griff Hosker’s Earl.
In non-fiction, William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke is discussed in Dan Jones’s Magna Carta, Dan Jones’s The Plantagenets, Dan Jones’s Realm Divided, and Dan Jones’s In the Reign of King John. Dan Jones’s Magna Carta approaches the subject through court politics and dynastic power, political ambition and government, and empire, conquest and resistance.
Historical context
Series
The Roger of Huntley series follows a fugitive monk and crusader through the violence of the Third Crusade and the later crisis of King John’s reign. The early books place Roger among soldiers, pilgrims and rulers in the eastern Mediterranean, while the later novels return him to England…
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The Anarchy Series follows families, knights and warlords through the civil war between Stephen and Empress Matilda and into the Angevin settlement under Henry II. The sequence expands from northern England and Normandy to crusading, Wales, Ireland and the politics around Thomas Becket and Henry’s sons. It is…
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Elizabeth Chadwick’s William Marshal cycle follows the Marshal family and the households bound to it from the civil war of the Anarchy to the crisis of King John’s reign. A Place Beyond Courage centres on William’s father, John Marshal, while The Greatest Knight and The Scarlet Lion trace…
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Chronicles of the Black Lion follows Estienne Wace from King John’s divided England into the wider conflicts and military cultures of the early thirteenth century. Rebellion places the orphaned squire in William Marshal’s household as baronial opposition and Prince Louis of France threaten the crown. Crusade carries him…
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Elizabeth Chadwick’s Eleanor of Aquitaine trilogy follows one of medieval Europe’s most formidable rulers from her inheritance of Aquitaine and first marriage to Louis VII of France through her turbulent partnership with Henry II of England. The novels place Eleanor’s marriages, motherhood and political ambitions within crusade, dynastic…
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The Crusader series follows the fictional Lancastrian knight Frederick Banastre and his descendants through the conflicts of the Angevin and early Plantagenet monarchy. Frederick enters the household of the future Richard I, campaigns in France and the Holy Land, and becomes involved in the political struggles caused by…
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Non Fiction
Biographies, histories and other non-fiction are listed separately from the historical novels above.
