Note 329 — Chapter II · THE REGENCY OF WILLIAM THE MARSHAL 1216–1219
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His biographer represents him as stating in October, 1216, that he was “over eighty,” see above, p. 6; but this seems to be an error on the part of either the writer or the Marshal himself; see Hist. G. le Mar., vol. iii. p. xxiv. and p. 8, note 2. His parents were, it seems, married in 1141 or 1142, and in all likelihood he—their second son—was born in 1143 or 1144.