Medieval Biographies

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William Marshal (1147-1219)
L'Histoire de Guillaume le Marechal.
ed. P. Meyer (SHF, 1901), 3vols.
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Crouch, David. William Marshal: Court, Career and Chivalry in the Angevin Empire 1147-1219..
Longman Pub Group, 1993.
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For my money the best of the biographies written about William during this Century. Crouch goes to great lengths to illustrate the political difficulties William faced during his career, and the strains due to his dual fealty to the kings of England and France.

Painter, Sidney. William Marshal : Knight-Errant, Baron, and Regent of England (Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching, 13).
University of Toronto Press, 1982.
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Duby, George. William Marshal : The Flower of Chivalry.
translated by Richard Howard. Pantheon Books, 1987.
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Edward, the Black Prince
Chandos, Herald, 1350-1380. The life and campaigns of the Black Prince: from contemporary letters, diaries and chronicles, including Chandos Herald's Life of the Black Prince.
ed. Richard W. Barber. New York, NY : St. Martin's Press, 1986.
Rutgers ALEX STACKS DA234.L53 1986
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Chandos, Herald, 1350-1380. Life of the Black Prince, by the herald of Sir John Chandos.
Edited from the manuscript in Worcester College, with linguistic and historical notes, by Mildred K. Pope and Eleanor C. Lodge. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1910. New York, AMS Press, 1974.
Rutgers ALEX STACKS DA234.C4 1974

Henry of Grosmont 1310-1361
Fowler, Kenneth Alan. The King's lieutenant: Henry of Grosmont, First Duke of Lancaster, 1310-1361.
New York, Barnes & Noble 1969.
(Rutgers) CAMDN, DANA, KLMR STACKS DA237.H4F6 1969
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Thomas of Lancaster 1307-1322
Maddicott, J.R. Thomas of Lancaster 1307-22: a study in the reign of Edward II.
(Oxford, 1970).
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Joan of Arc ca.1364-ca. 1431
Pisan, Christine de, ca. 1364-ca. 1431. Ditie de Jehanned'Arc.
edited by Angus J. Kennedy and Kenneth Varty.
Oxford : Society for the Study of Mediaeval Languages and Literature, 1977.
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Pernoud, Regine. Joan of Arc: By Herself and Her Witnesses.
Scarborough House, 1994.
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Joan of Arc: In Her Own Words. compiled by Willard R. Trask.
Turtle Point Press, 1996.
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Gamez, Guttiere Diaz de. The Unconquered Knight: a Chronicle of the Deeds of Don Pero Nino.
ed. & trans. J. Evans. (London, 1928).
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Legend of Fulk FitzWarin, ed. J. Stevenson in Ralph de Coggeshalle,
Chronicon Anglicanum. (R.S., 1875).
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