Everything about William Herbert 1st Earl Of Pembroke 1551 Creation totally explained
William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke KG (c.
1506 –
March 17,
1570) was a
Tudor noble and courtier.
His father,
Sir Richard Herbert, was an illegitimate son of another
William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke (1423-1469) of an older, extinct creation.
Herbert's first wife,
Anne Parr, was a sister of
Catherine Parr, who married
King Henry VIII. He rose with the Parrs after his sister-in-law's marriage and was knighted in
1543. He had been granted
Wilton Abbey and other land by Henry VIII by
1544. He pulled down the abbey, and built the first
Wilton House in the 1540s. Herbert was a guardian of the young
King Edward VI after the death of Henry VIII in
1547. He was made a
Knight of the Garter in
1549, and created Baron Herbert of Cardiff on
October 10,
1551, and 1st Earl of Pembroke the following day by Edward VI. His wife Anne died on
February 20,
1552, and later that year Herbert married Anne, daughter of
George Talbot, 4th Earl of Shrewsbury, and widow of Peter Compton. He had no children by his second wife, but three by Anne Parr:
Herbert married his son
Henry to
Lady Catherine Grey in May 1553 while
John Dudley married his son,
Guilford Dudley to
Lady Jane Grey. Herbert initially supported Jane Grey's claim to the throne, however when it became clear that
Mary I would take the throne he cast Catherine out of his house and had the marriage annulled. He managed to distance himself from Grey family after their fall and obtained the new queen's favour by crushing
Wyatt's rebellion.
William died on
March 17,
1570, in
Hampton Court.
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