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  List of the Knights of the Garter (1348-present)
66 (inv 1380) Thomas (Plantagenet), styled "of Woodstock." Duke of Gloucester.
94 (inv 1399) Thomas (Plantagenet), styled "of Lancaster." Duke of Clarence.
Earl of Hereford, K.G. Married Thomas of Woodstock, Earl of Buckingham, K.G., afterwards Duke of Gloucester.
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  Earls of Pembroke - LoveToKnow 1911
The title of earl of Pembroke was next revived in favour of SIR William Herbert (C. 1501-1570), whose father, Richard, was an illegitimate son of the ist earl of Pembroke of the house of Herbert.
William Herbert, 3rd earl of Pembroke (1580-1630), son of the 2nd earl and his famous countess, was a conspicuous figure in the society of his time and at the court of James I.
Trusted by the popular party, Pembroke was made governor of the Isle of Wight, and he was one of the representatives of the parliament on several occasions, notably during the negotiations at Uxbridge in 1645 and at Newport in 1648, and when the Scots surrendered Charles in 1647.
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 8th Earl of Pembroke
Family tree - Herbert - 8th Earl of Pembroke
Henry Herbert, 9th Earl of Pembroke, born 29th Jan 1693.
Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Carnarvon, cr 1793, died 1811.
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 thePeerage.com - Penelope Naunton and others
     Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke was born in 1656.
She married Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke, son of Philip Herbert, 5th Earl of Pembroke and Catherine Villiers, in July 1684.
She married Lt.-Gen. Henry Herbert, 9th Earl of Pembroke, son of Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke and Margaret Sawyer, on 28 August 1733.
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 Earl of Pembroke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Strongbow having died without male issue, his daughter Isabel became Countess of Pembroke in her own right, and the title was borne by her husband, Sir William Marshal, or Le Marchal, second son of John le Marchal, by Sibylle, the sister of Patrick, Earl of Salisbury.
In 1414 Humphrey Plantagenet, fourth son of King Henry IV, was created Duke of Gloucester and Earl of Pembroke for life, these titles being subsequently made hereditary, with a reversion as regards the Earldom of Pembroke, in default of heirs to Humphrey, to William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk.
His brother, Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke (1584-1650), was for some years the chief favourite of James I, owing this position to his comely person and his passion for hulking and for field sports generally.
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 Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library: Recent Acquisitions 2002
Wharton was a niece of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, and her elegy on Rochester (present in this manuscript) was the only one of her poems to be published in her lifetime.
Pembroke was a collector on the grandest scale, particularly of classical antiquities.
"Lady Poulet" is Lady Susan Herbert, the daughter of the 5th Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, who was married to John the 3rd Baron Poulett, and died in 1693.
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 Sir Robert Sawyer - LoveToKnow 1911
On the flight of James II., Sawyer maintained that the throne had thereby been abdicated, and took a prominent part in the debates on the constitutional questions then brought to the front.
Owing to an attack upon him in 1690 in relation to his conduct in the case of Sir Thomas Armstrong in 1684, Sawyer was expelled from the House of Commons, but was returned again for Cambridge University shortly afterwards.
Sawyer's only daughter married Thomas Herbert, 8th earl of Pembroke.
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 Vitae imperatorum. (Venice, Nicolaus Jenson, 8 March : CORNELIUS NEPOS
Early 18th century English red morocco bound for Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke, covers with gilt border of dentelles and fleurons at the corners, spine richly gilt in compartments, paper label at foot of spine, gilt edges (joints rubbed).
The Earls of Pembroke for several generations were patrons of learning and the arts.
His son, Henry, the ninth Earl, though chiefly interested in architecture, also added to the library with works in that field and in numismatics.
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 Book Collecting - Charles' George Orwell Links
Sir Thomas Smith (1513-1577) bequeathed his books to Queens' College, Cambridge; Archbishop Parker's were left under severe restrictions to Corpus Christi College in the same university; Sir Thomas Bodley refounded during his lifetime the library at Oxford University, to which also Archbishop Laud gave liberally and Selden bequeathed his books.
In 1819 the Duke of Marlborough's books were sold, and the Boccaccio for which he had paid £2260 went to Earl Spencer (1758-1834) for £750, to pass with the rest of his rare books to the widow of John Rylands in 1892, and by her gift to the John Rylands Library at Manchester in 1899.
The library of Bryan Fairfax (1676-1749), which had passed to the Earls of Jersey, was sold in 1885, that of Sir John Thorold (1734-1815) in 1884, his Gutenberg Bible fetching £3900 and his Mainz Psalter £4950, both of which were bought by Quaritch.
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 herbert02
Families covered: Herbert of Carnarvon, Herbert of Kingsey, Herbert of Montgomery, Herbert of Pembroke, Herbert of Powis (Powys), Herbert of Raglan, Herbert of St. Julians (Gillians)
Mary Stanley (dau of Thomas Stanley of Standon)
Main sources: BE1883 (Herbert of Herbert, Chepstow, Pembroke and Huntingdon), BP1934 (Pembroke), BE1883 (Herbert of Powis) with input (for Herbert of St. Julians) from 'The House of Croft of Croft Castle' by O.G.S. Croft, published by E.J. Thornton, 1945.
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