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Nov 2, 2026

Villains and Virgins History Podcast

William Marshal: The Best Knight That Ever Lived

Nov 2 · 3 Mentions

Eva SchubertHOST

0:00

The story of William the Marshal reads like a legend from Camelot, King Arthur's legendary court.

Eva SchubertHOST

0:08

It's every bit as spectacular as any one of the stories of Sir Lancelot or Sir Tristan, and it has everything you'd expect from a perfect knightly story.

Eva SchubertHOST

0:20

It has battles, tournaments, crusades, Templar knights, and even a scandal with a princess.

Eva SchubertHOST

0:29

But what is amazing about the life of this particular knight is that it isn't a legend.

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Eva SchubertHOST

43:35

If you've heard any of the knightly legends that have come down to us from King Arthur's court, you will know all about Queen Guinevere and Sir Lancelot, who wasn't her husband.

Eva SchubertHOST

43:47

Queen Guinevere was married to King Arthur, but she's famous for the affair she has with Sir Lancelot, the best fighter in the king's court.

Eva SchubertHOST

43:57

And a similar thing happens to Sir Tristan and Isolde.

Eva SchubertHOST

44:01

Isolde is married to King Mark, but Sir Tristan is the bravest and best fighter in that court, and inevitably, the Queen and Tristan end up having an affair.

The Cromcast: A Weird Fiction Podcast

Cromtober 2026: Morgan le Fay and Witches

Oct 20 · 8 Mentions

JonathanHOST

15:23

Yep.

JonathanHOST

15:24

12.30 to 12.50, anonymously written, considered to be a reconstruction of the Vulgate cycle, which incorporates a story called The Prose Tristan.

JonathanHOST

15:32

Do you know of Tristan and Isolde, that story?

JoshHOST

15:35

I've read a quote.

JoshHOST

15:37

There's a cool quote from it about whether you will it or whether you won't.

JoshHOST

15:41

You are a king, Tristan.

JoshHOST

15:44

Be careful what you take with you.

JoshHOST

15:45

Look at you.

The Book of Jasher

Stories from Le Morte D'Arthur and the Mabinogion-Beatrice E. Clay

Oct 8 · 79 Mentions

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Anna NaumoskaNARRATOR

108:32

Long and far she wandered until she could go no further, but sank down at the foot of a great tree, and there in the midst of the forest was her little son born.

Anna NaumoskaNARRATOR

108:43

When the queen knew that she must die, she kissed the babe and said, "Ah, little son, sad has been thy birth, wherefore thy name shall be Tristram, but thou shall grow to be a brave knight and a strong." Then she charged her gentlewoman to take care of her child and to command her to King Meliodas, and after that she died.

Anna NaumoskaNARRATOR

109:06

All too late came many of the barons seeking their queen, and sorrowfully they bore her back to the castle, where presently the king arrived, released by the skill of Merlin from the evil spells of the enchantress.

Anna NaumoskaNARRATOR

109:19

Great indeed was the grief for the death of his queen.

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Anna NaumoskaNARRATOR

115:23

So it was arranged that the combat should take place on a little island hard by where Sir Marhus had entered his ships.

Anna NaumoskaNARRATOR

115:30

Sir Tristam with his swords and arms was placed on a board a ship, and when the island was gained he leaped on shore bidding his squire put off again and only return when he was slain or victorious.

Anna NaumoskaNARRATOR

115:43

Now when Sir Marhaus saw that Tristram was but a youth, he cried aloud to him, "Be advised, young sir, and go back to your ship.

Anna NaumoskaNARRATOR

115:52

What can you hope to do against me, a proven knight of Arthur's table?" Then Tristram made answer, "Sir, and most famous champion, I have been made knight to do battle with you, and I promise myself to win honor thereby, I who have never before encountered a proven knight." "If you can endure three strokes of my sword, it shall be honor enough," said Sir Marhaus.

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Medieval English Literature-Willliam Paton Ker

Oct 8 · 9 Mentions

Christine RuckerNARRATOR

88:47

Roughly speaking, the matter of France is action, the matter of Britain is sentiment.

Christine RuckerNARRATOR

88:53

The matter of Rome is mixed, for while the Roman de Troy, with the love story of Troilus and with courteous modern manners throughout, is like the romances of Lancelot and Tristram.

Christine RuckerNARRATOR

89:06

Alexander, in the French versions, is a hero like those of the national epics and is celebrated in the same manner as Charlemagne.

Christine RuckerNARRATOR

89:16

The matter of France could not be popular in England as it was in its native country, but Charlemagne and Roland and his peers were well known everywhere, like Arthur and Alexander, and the matter of France went to increase the stories told by the English minstrels.

1 HR 1 MIN LATER

Christine RuckerNARRATOR

150:14

Geraldus Cambrensis is full of folklore, and about the same time Walter Mapp in his Denugis Creolium and Gervais of Tilbury in his Osia Imperialia were taking notes of the same sort.

Christine RuckerNARRATOR

150:31

But Geraldus and Walter Mapp were at home in Wales, and it was particularly in the relation between the Welsh and their neighbors that the study of folklore was encouraged, both the historical study, as in the works of these Latin authors just named, and the traffic in stories to be used for literary purposes in the vernacular languages, whether French or English.

Christine RuckerNARRATOR

150:56

The matter of Britain in the stories of Tristram, Gawain, Perceval, and Lancelot came to be associated peculiarly with the courteous sentimental type of romance which had such vogue and such influence in the Middle Ages.

Christine RuckerNARRATOR

151:12

But the value of this matter, the Celtic stories, was by no means exclusively connected with the ambitious literary art of Christian and others like him.

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Nov 2, 2026

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