Lionheart or not, Marshal bested Richard, killing his horse from under him but sparing the young man’s life. “Let the Devil kill you,” he famously told Richard. “I won’t be the one to do it.”52 This combination of chivalrous propriety with bloody lethality earned William a high place in the Lionheart’s esteem, and when Richard was crowned king, Marshal slid from one Plantagenet’s service to another’s.
