Walter Marshal, 5th Earl of Pembroke

Walter Marshal
Walter Marshal
5th Earl of Pembroke
	Marshal of Hamstead
Spouse(s)	Margaret de Quincy, Countess of Lincoln
Father	William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke
Mother	Isabel de Clare, 4th Countess of Pembroke

Walter Marshal, 5th Earl of Pembroke (1199 – 27 November 1245) was the fourth son of

Marshal Family

.

Early life

Walter was born in 1199 (or early in 1200) in Leinster during his father's long period of exile in Ireland between 1208 and 1213. He was the fourth son and one of the ten children of

banneret knight of Walter's eldest brother William

.

Walter Marshal made his career as a young man as a knight in the households of his elder brothers

Curragh of Kildare on 1 April 1234 where he fought alongside his brother Richard, but evaded capture in his defeat. In 1240 Walter was delegated command of his brother Gilbert's campaign in west Wales, and was responsible for ending Welsh power in Pembrokeshire and Ceredigion. He was in the tournament retinue of his brother Gilbert at Ware on 27 June 1241 where Gilbert died of his injuries.^[2]

Earl of Pembroke

As Gilbert had just one illegitimate daughter Isabel by an unknown mistress, Walter became the next earl of Pembroke. His succession was fraught. King

marshal of England a week later.^[3] On 6 January 1242 Walter married the wealthy widow Margaret de Quincy, Countess of Lincoln. Margaret brought him her maternal inheritance of the honour of Bolingbroke in Lincolnshire in 1243 after the death of her mother, Hawise of Chester. The marriage was childless however.^[4]

Earl Walter made a point of dutifully following the royal court for several months after his rehabilitation, and promptly answered the summons for the king's campaign in

Scilly Isles. In 1244 Walter was deployed to contain the military threat of Prince Dafydd ap Llywelyn of Wales to the southern March. On 6 June 1244 at Westminster Walter made a final settlement of the state of mortal enmity that had existed between the Marshals and Maurice Fitz Gerald as a result of Maurice's involvement with the death of Earl Richard Marshal in 1234.^[5]

Death

Walter crossed over to Leinster at the end of 1244 and remained there till the early summer of 1245 settling his Irish affairs. After landing at

dower third from the Pembroke earldom and lordships, including the county of Kildare in Ireland. Her dower was larger than the individual holdings of the 13 eventual co-heirs of the Marshal estate after Ansel's subsequent death.^[6]

Sources

Acts and Letters of the Marshal Family 1156-1248: Earls of Pembroke and Marshals of England, ed. David Crouch, Camden Society 5th series, 47 (Cambridge: CUP, 2015).

Cokayne, George E. (1945), The New Complete Peerage, vol. 10, St. Catherine Press Limited
D. Crouch, 'Earl Gilbert Marshal and his mortal enemies,' Historical Research, 87 (2014), 393–403.
R.F. Walker, 'The Earls of Pembroke, 1138-1389' in, Pembrokeshire County History ii, Medieval Pembrokeshire, ed. R.F. Walker (Haverfordwest, 2002).
Louise Wilkinson, 'Pawn and political player: observations on the life of a thirteenth-century countess,' Historical Research, 73 (2000), 105-23

References

^ Acts and Letters, p. 32.
^ Acts and Letters, pp. 32-3
^ Acts and Letters, pp. 33-4.
^ Wilkinson, 'Pawn and political player: observations on the life of a thirteenth-century countess,' 105-23.
^ Acts and Letters, pp. 33-4.
^ Acts and Letters, pp. 34-5.

Political offices
Preceded by Gilbert Marshal	Earl Marshal 1242–1245	Succeeded by Anselm Marshal
Peerage of England
Preceded by Gilbert Marshal	Earl of Pembroke 1242–1245	Succeeded by Anselm Marshal

[1] Acts and Letters, p. 32.

[2] Acts and Letters, pp. 32-3

[3] Acts and Letters, pp. 33-4.

[4] Wilkinson, 'Pawn and political player: observations on the life of a thirteenth-century countess,' 105-23.

[5] Acts and Letters, pp. 33-4.

[6] Acts and Letters, pp. 34-5.

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