which besieged the Marshal castle of Kildare. On 1 April 1234, Earl Richard and a small column of cavalry reached the siege lines on the Curragh. Attempted negotiations by the Templar brothers failed and in the succeeding mêlée the earl was cut off from his men, surrounded and unhorsed. He suffered a fatal wound during his capture. He lingered for two weeks but died of his injuries on 15 April 1234, while the justiciar and his allies subdued Leinster. Richard was buried in the Franciscan friary of Kilkenny. He was succeeded by his brother, Gilbert, at the time a clergyman, who had to deal with the aftermath of salvaging the Marshal fortunes and prosecuting the inevitable formal feud between his family and his brother's killers. The death of Richard Marshal ended the long connection between the Marshals and their Continental lands, as his brother Gilbert did not succeed them. Little is known subsequently of Richard's widow Gervasia, who died in 1238 or 1239. She was childless by him, though had several heirs from her two previous husbands. Notes Sources Daniel Power, 'The French Interests of the Marshal Earls of Striguil and Pembroke', Anglo-Norman Studies, 25 (2003), 199-25. Acts and Letters of the Marshal Family 1156-1248: Earls of Pembroke and Marshals of England,'' ed. David Crouch, Camden Society 5th series, 47 (Cambridge: CUP, 2015). 1191 births 1234 deaths Norman warriors Richard Earls Marshal Normans in Ireland 13th-century Irish people