Anselm Marshal, 6th Earl of Pembroke

Anselm Marshal, 6th Earl of Pembroke († December 23, 1245 in Chepstow Castle ) was an English nobleman.

Anselm Marshal came from the Anglo-Norman family Marshal . He was the fifth and youngest son of William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke, and Isabel de Clare . It was named after a younger brother of his father. According to the will of his father, who died in 1219, he was initially not to inherit any land. It is believed that his father wanted the young Anselm to have a career as a traveling knight, as which he himself had achieved notable merits. However, his advisors convinced him to give Anselm a small piece of land. However, after his four older brothers had all died without male descendants, Anselm inherited his family's extensive estates on November 24, 1245 after the death of his brother Walter . Without having assumed his inheritance and being confirmed by the king as Earl of Pembroke or hereditary Lord Marshal , Anselm himself died four weeks after his brother in one of his castles in South Wales. He was buried in Tintern Abbey .

Anselm had been married to Maud, daughter of Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Essex . After this marriage also remained childless, the title Earl of Pembroke became extinct. The huge family estate with lands in England, South Wales and Leinster in Ireland was divided among its five sisters Maud, Isabella, Sibylle, Eva and Joan or their heirs, so that the inheritance was passed on to the Bigod , Clare , Ferrers, Mortimer, Bohun, Cantiloupe and Hastings fell. King Henry III married 1247 Anselm's niece Joan de Munchensi , one of the heiresses, with his half-brother William de Valence , to whom he newly bestowed the title of Earl of Pembroke.

literature

• Sidney Painter: William Marshall, Knight-Errant, Baron, and Regent of England. University of Toronto Press, Toronto 1982.

Web links

• RF Walker: Marshal, Anselm. In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004

predecessor	Office	successor
Walter Marshal	Earl of Pembroke 1245-1245	Title expired
Walter Marshal	Marshal of England 1245-1245	Roger Bigod