From humble beginnings and a narrow escape from death in childhood William Marshall steadily rises through the ranks to become tutor in arms to the son of King Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. Based on fact this is the story of William Marshal the greatest knight of the Middle Ages unsurpassed in the tourneys adeptly manoeuvring through the colourful dangerous world of power and politics to become one of the most powerful magnates of the realm and eventually Regent of England.