The Acts and Letters of the Marshal Family
Marshals of England and Earls of Pembroke, 1145–1248

The surviving documents of the Marshals, the most powerful magnate dynasty in thirteenth-century England, Ireland and Wales.

David Crouch (Edited by)

9781107130036, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 20 August 2015

538 pages
22.4 x 14.6 x 3.3 cm, 0.78 kg

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.

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.

Subject Areas: Politics & government [JP], Medieval history [HBLC1], Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500 [HBLC], British & Irish history [HBJD1], General & world history [HBG], Diaries, letters & journals [BJ]