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1st Earl of Pembroke (first creation)

William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke (of the first creation) (see here and here), born c.1423,
mar Anne Devereux [daughter of Walter Devereux and Elizabeth Merbury, see her ancestry] and had issue:

1. William Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke,
   mar Mary Woodville, sister of the queen, Elizabeth Woodville,
   poss. see Richard III by Shakespeare,
   surrendered title 1479 in exchange for Earldom of Huntingdon (see [Burkes Extinct]),
   legitimate line extinct 1491,
   had issue:
   1. Elizabeth Herbert, 3rd Baroness Herbert, mar Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester and had issue.

had affair and had issue:

1. Sir Richard Herbert, illegitimate,
   Constable of Abergavenny Castle,
   mar Margaret Cradock [dau of Sir Mathew Cradock of Swansea]
   and died 2nd or 12th, Sept 1510, having had issue:
   1. William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke, born 1506.

leading Yorkist in War of Roses,
cr 1468 by Edward IV,
appears in Henry VI, part 3 by Shakespeare,
captured by Lancastrians and beheaded 1469, age c.46 yrs.

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