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In The Greatest Knight, renowned historian Thomas Asbridge draws after the thirteenth-century biography and an array of other contemporary facts to provide a compelling account of William Marshal's life and times. Asbridge charts the unparalleled climb to prominence of a guy destined to a code of honor yet motivated by unquenchable ambition. Marshal was the true Lancelot of his time - a peerless warrior and paragon of chivalry. Being a five-year-old youngster, William was sentenced to execution and led to the gallows, yet this landless more youthful child survived his clean with death and went on to train as a medieval knight. Against all chances Marshal rose through the rates - offering at the right palm of five British monarchs - to become a celebrated tournament champion, a baron and politician, and, finally, regent of the realm. This knight's tale lays bare the brutish realities of medieval warfare and the machinations of the royal courtroom and draws us into the heart of a formative period of our history. It is the story of 1 amazing man, the birth of the knightly category to which he belonged, and the forging of the British nation.
