William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke, English soldier and politician (born 1147)

William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke

Anglo-Norman soldier and statesman (1146/7–1219)

William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke, also called William the Marshal, was an Anglo-Norman soldier and statesman during High Medieval England who served five English kings: Henry II and his son and co-ruler Young Henry, Richard I, John, and finally Henry III.