Richard Herbert (abt. 1442 - 1510)

Born about 1442 in Ragland, Monmouthshire, Wales

Ancestors

Husband of Margred (Craddock) Cradock — married 1505 in Swansea, Glamorgan, , Wales

Descendants

Died 12 Sep 1510 at about age 68 in Hereford, Herefordshire, England

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Biography

Sir Richard Herbert was a member of the aristocracy in British Isles.

Sir Richard Herbert was the natural son of Sir William Herbert and Maud Turberville. He married Margaret Cradock, sole heir of Sir Mathew Cradock, bringing Candleston Castle to the Herberts.^[1] Sir Richard had three children by his wife Margred (Margred, William, and George) and four by his mistress Isabel (Thomas, Alice, William, and Morgan).^[2]

For more about Sir Richard's life, see his Wikipedia biography and also information about him and his family in Lewys Dwnn's The Visitation of Wales (including footnote 10 on p 292).

Name

Richard /HERBERT/^[3][4]

Birth

• about 1442, Ragland, Monmouthshire, Wales^[4]
• 1445^[5]

Christening

{godwin}^[4]

Marriage

Sir Richard Herbert married Margred ferch Sir Mathew Cradock about 1505, in Swansea, Glamorganshire, Wales^[4]

• Child: Margred Herbert^[2]
• Child: William Herbert^[4][2]
• Child: George Herbert^[2]

Sir Richard and his mistress, Isabel ferch Gwilym, had four children:^[2]

• Thomas
• Alice
• William
• Morgan

Death

12 SEP 1510^[4]

Burial

Bergavenny^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Wikipedia: Candleston Castle
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4} #Bartrum
3. ↑ Source: #S001697
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6} Source: #S001732
5. ↑ from Greg Rose

• The Bartrum Project, (digitization of "Welsh Genealogies AD 300- 1500" by Peter C. Bartrum) Note: Cadair home page and the Bartrum Project's search page were captured by the Wayback Machine, but, apparently, it did not capture any of the pages for the charts. The Bartrum charts are still available online here, but not as a searchable database (as of 2023). See this G2G post.
  • Godwin 8(A2), Richard of Ewias (son of William, Earl of Pembroke), includes Richard's children by his wife Margred and by his mistress Isabel
• "The Early Life of William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke (d. 1570)" by S.J. Gunn and W.R.B. Robinson, Welsh History Review, Vol. 18, no. 3 (June 1997), pp 509-519.
  • excerpt (510-511): "His father, Richard Herbert, esquire, of Ewias and Abergavenny, an illegitimate son of William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke (d. 1469), had died in 1510. Sources differ as to the exact number of children Richard fathered.... We can, however, be confident that the future Sir George Herbert of Swansea was the eldest son and heir, perhaps William's senior by as much as a dozen years." (footnote shows Sir George d 1570)
• Wikipedia: Sir Richard Herbert
• S001697: Ancestral File number 9TDZ-X3, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, data as of 5 January 1998
• S001732: HERBERT(10).FTW, Date of Import: 13 Mar 2010

See also:

• The Herbert Family Pedigree, Ancient Wales Studies
• Narasingha Prosad Sil, Tudor Placemen and Statesmen: Select Case Histories (p 95)
• Jones, Theophilus. History of the County of Brecknockshire, p 394
• Additional Bartrum Charts:
  • Godwin 8], parents of William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke (d 1469)
  • Godwin 8(A1), children of William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke (d 1469)
  • Godwin 8(A2), Richard of Ewias (son of William, Earl of Pembroke), includes Richard's children and also the family of his son George Herbert of Swansea
  • Gamage 2, Sir Thomas Gamage, father of Mary (who married Matthew Herbert of Swansea, one of Richard's grandsons by son George)
• Wikipedia: William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke (died 1469)
• Richard Wydeville, Medieval Lands

At the time this profile was developed, the main source for medieval genealogy in the EuroAristo Project was the FMG database MEDIEVAL LANDS: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families by Charles Cawley,© Foundation for Medieval Genealogy, 2000-2013.

For the Cymru project, see the Medieval Lands section on Wales.

Acknowledgements

• The WikiTree profile Herbert-534 was created through the import of Mary Lee Morris.GED on Aug 18, 2011 by Lawrence Schliessmann.
• The WikiTree profile Herbert-545 was created through the import of Hilliard Morris.ged on Aug 18, 2011 by Lawrence Schliessmann.
• A WikiTree profile for this person was created by Greg Rose, Tuesday, December 31, 2013.
• Liz Shifflett