Everything about William Herbert 2nd Earl Of Pembroke totally explained
William Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke (
5 March 1451 -
16 July 1491), was the son of
William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke and Anne Devereux. His maternal grandparents were
Walter Devereux,
Lord Chancellor of Ireland and Elizabeth Merbury.
He succeeded his father in the
earldom in
1469. In
1479, he surrendered the earldom, and was created
Earl of Huntingdon. A
Yorkist, he married
Mary Woodville, sister of the queen,
Elizabeth Woodville, and they'd one daughter,
Elizabeth Herbert, 3rd Baroness Herbert.
He was the least wealthy of the earls of his time, and after his marriage to his second wife was Catherine, an illegitimate daughter of King
Richard III of England, he received an annuity of some 600 pounds a year, nearly doubling his income. Catherine was presumed to be dead by 1487, because when William participated in the coronation of his first wife's niece,
Elizabeth of York, he was noted to be a widower.
Herbert remained loyal to Richard III. After the rebellion of 1483 he received the post of Chief Justice of South Wales, which had been the
Duke of Buckingham's.
When
Henry of Richmond landed in south Wales in 1485 Herbert's position forced Henry to take a roundabout route into England. It is likely that a Herbert agent first notified Richard III of Henry's landing. Herbert did not, however, fight at
Bosworth.
When he died, his only child, Elizabeth Herbert, received the Herbert lands, including
Raglan Castle, but not his title. However, oddly, his earldom didn't pass to his younger brother, Walter Herbert.
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