AUTHOR’S NOTE
William Marshal died two years later at Caversham, adopting the habit of the Knights Templar a few days before his death. He had kept his word and reunited the kingdom, seeing the boy King set firmly on the throne, terms made with the French that shamed no one. He was buried at his own request in the Temple Church in London, and hearing of his passing King Philip said, ‘He was the most loyal knight I have ever known.’ It is an odd fact that none of William’s sons had children, thus fulfilling the curse of the Bishop of Ferns. The office of Marshal passed through his daughter to her son Roger Bigod, Earl of Norfolk, in which family it has stayed to the present day.
THE PLANTAGENET LINE CONTINUES
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