Gilbert Mashal, Earl of Pembroke

Other Events and Attributes:

• General Information: As a third son, he had been intended for the church, and had taken minor orders, but when his next oldest brother assumed the title, he took a more secular role acting as his agent in Ireland.
• Natural Issue: say 1225; By an unknown mistress he had one illegitimate daughter, Isabel, who was betrothed to Rhys ap Maelgwn Fychan.In the late 1230s, Maelgwn Fychan (son of Maelgwn ap Rhys) agreed a treaty with Gilbert, whereby Maelgwn Fychan's son, Rhys, would marry Isabel, and receive the cantref of Is-Aeron, except the commote of Is-Hirwen (which contained Cardigan Castle); in return Maelgwn Fychan and Rhys would become vassals of Gilbert (so far as it didn't compromise fealty to the king).
• Travel: 1229; In 1229 he set out for the Holy Land.
• Title(s): 11 Jun 1234, Worcester, Worcestershire, England; On 11 June 1234 the king knighted him at Worcester and invested him as the Earl of Pembroke, and hereditary Marshal of England.
• Land/House: 9 Dec 1234; He was granted the honor of Laigle (Sussex) and the castle of Pevensey on 9 December 1234.
• Charter/Grant/Gift: say 1235; Charter: "Gilbert Marshal, Earl of Pembroke gave the abbot and convent of Tintern for their tannery all the bark from the wood felled there, whether sold or give, of the lower forest of Went rendering 2d for each load."
• Miscellaneous: 1235; When his brother died, he was allowed to cross into Wales with his younger brothers and they soon obtained the King's pardon on 25 May 1234.
• Military: 1236; Gilbert captured Castell Meredydd from Morgan ap Hywel in 1236 during a truce between Llywelyn the Great and King Henry III of England. After Marshal took the castle he seems to have fortified it with a bailey and curtain wall. He was forced to return it to Morgan by the terms of the truce, or "for fear of the lord Llywelyn".
• Miscellaneous: 1236; At the coronation of Queen Eleanor in 1236, he officiated as the Marshal.
• Miscellaneous: 1239; On 12 November 1239, he swore at Northampton to go on crusade, provided that Cornwall would reconcile him to the King, which Earl Richard duly did when they were preparing to start n the summer of 1240. Being resorted to favor,m Gilbert stayed in England but intended to go to Jerusalem.
• Last Full Review: 5 Aug 2020

Notes:

Died:
He was mortally wounded at a tournament at Ware, which King Henry III had expressly forbidden, as he did not want any of his subjects killing one another in sport. Gilbert was thrown from his horse and his foot was caught in the stirrup, thus he was dragged for some distance on the ground and died from the injuries received.

Buried:
While his body was buried beside his father and brother in the Temple Church, his entrails were buried in Herford Priory.

Gilbert married Marjorie of Scotland on 1 Aug 1235 in Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, England. Marjorie (daughter of William I "the Lion", King of the Scots and Ermengarde de Beaumont) was born in 1214; died on 17 Nov 1244; was buried in Dominican Church of the Blackfriars, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]