Is bruder Sir Gileberd, that eir was of the londe,
He bitoke mid gode wille the eritage an hond.
—Robert of Gloucester.
[58] Baronage, 208.
[59] “He died untimely,” says the historian, “on the nones of April, 1176, and was buried in the Chapterhouse at Gloucester.”
[60] Bar. Monast.
[61] In the “New Temple” or Temple Church, as recorded by Robert of Gloucester:—
And Willam Marchal deide tho, that longe worth in mone,
And atte nywe temple was iburied at Londone.—Vol. ii. p. 518.
[62] Mat. Paris, 1245.
[63] Bp. of Fernis, a Cistercian monk, and an Irishman by birth.
[64] William, eldest son of the above-named Earl Marshall, gave a charter to the Abbey of Tinterne, dated March 22, A.D. 1223. Pro salute animæ meæ et pro animabus bonæ memoriæ Walteri filii Ricardi, filii Guilberti Strongbow, avi mei, et Willielmi Mariscalli, patris mei, et Ysabellæ Matrisque meæ et antecessorum, hæredum et successorum nostrorum.