By Jack the Good Knight There is a question that I get asked an awful lot. Who was the greatest knight who ever lived? The answer, according to Stephen Langton, the Archbishop of Canterbury is William Marshal. The Archbishop said this shortly after William Marshal died in 1219. He was the most senior churchman in England. And he described William Marshal as the greatest knight that ever lived as though it were a simple statement of fact rather than a compliment. Eight hundred

The Magna Carta explained - why it mattered and how a medieval document meant that no King could be above the law.