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Philip Herbert KB (1621 - 1669)

Philip "5th Earl of Pembroke, Earl of Montgomery" Herbert KB
Born in Enfield, Middlesex, Englandmap
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Husband of — married 28 Mar 1639 (to 1647) in Charing Cross, London, Englandmap
Husband of — married 1649 in Brooksby, Leicestershire, Englandmap
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Died at about age 48 in Salisbury Cathedral, Wiltshire, Englandmap
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Biography

Philip Herbert was the fourth-born son of Philip Herbert, Fourth Earl of Pembroke and first Earl of Montgomery, and his first wife Susan de Vere. He was the first to survive his father, as his three elder brothers died young. [1] [2] [3] He was baptised 21 February 1620/1 at Enfield St Andrew, Middlesex. "Philip Harbert, filius Philippi Earle of Mountgomery, baptized Feb. 21, 1620-1." [4] [5] Following the death of his brother Charles in 1636, he was styled as Lord Herbert of Shrubland.

At age 11, on 20 April 1632, he matriculated at Exeter College Oxford, accompanying his elder brother Charles, but neither took a degree. [6]

Parliament

In political matters, Lord Herbert followed the lead of his father the earl. By 1639, he might have been one of the gentleman pensioners of King Charles, as in that year he was appointed an officer in the regiment of Life-Guard of Horse, commanded by the Earl of Pembroke for the king's attack on Scotland. [7]

In 1640, he was elected MP for Wiltshire (the Short Parliament) and for Glamorganin the Long Parliament, [1] [6] in which he took the side of Parliament against the king during the Civil war. Following his father's death in 1649, with the House of Lords abolished, he took the Earl's seat as MP for Berkshire. During the Commonwealth, he was elected to the Council of State in 1651 and to its presidency in 1652. [8] [9] [1]

At the restoration of the monarchy, like most peers, he was reconciled with the royalists and took his family's traditional place at the coronation bearing the golden spurs of King Charles II, when he was also inducted as Knight of the Bath. [10]

Marriages and Children

Philip Herbert married twice. First, on 28 May 1639, at Charing Cross, London, he married Penelope, daughter and heiress of Sir Robert Naughton and his wife Penelope Perrot, widow of Paul Bayning 2nd Viscount Bayning. Their younger daughter Penelope Bayning married Philip's youngest brother John Herbert on 6 June 1651.

The marriage produced one son, William, born 1640, who succeeded his father as 6th Earl of Pembroke in 1669. [1] In the Will of Philip's father, the 4th Earl, [11] [12] dated 1 May 1649, the bulk of his estate was left to the eldest son Philip for life only, "the same to remain to William Herbert, son of the said Philip." However, William died unmarried and left his estate successively to his half-brothers, who were not born until after the 4th Earl had made his Will.

Philip's second wife was Catherine, daughter of William Villiers, 1st Baronet Villiers of Brooksby, half brother of George Villiers 1st Duke of Buckingham. They were married about 1649 at the Villiers family home of Brooksby, Leicestershire. This marriage had issue two sons and five daughters: [3]

Philip - 7th Earl - bp. 5 January 1652/3; d. spm 1683
Thomas - 8th Earl - b. about 1656; d. 22 Jan 1732/3
Susan - bp. 7 May 1650; m. 1667 John Poulett
Mary - bp. 13 December 1651; m. Sydenham
Catherine - bp. 10 June 1654; m. Sir John Williams; d. 1704
Rebecca - bp. 22 July 1655; d. unmarried 9 December 1729
Alice - d. young

He died 11 December 1669 and was buried in the Herbert vault of Salisbury Cathedral on 24 December. [1] [13] His wife Catherine was laid there with him on 28 February 1677/8. [1]

His Will

Sources

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Cokayne, George E. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant, Vol. 10, p. 419. London: The St Catherine Press, 1945. FamilySearch
  2. Cracroft's Peerage: Pembroke, Earl of. Cracroft
  3. 3.0 3.1 Collins, Arthur and Brydges, Edgerton. Peerage of England, vol. III, p. 122 ff. London: F.C. and J. Rivington, Otridge and Son, 1812. Collins
  4. Lysons, Daniel. "Enfield." The Environs of London: Volume 2, County of Middlesex. London: T Cadell and W Davies, 1795. 278-334. British History Online. Web. 22 February 2023. BHO
  5. Parish Register of Enfield, St Andrew, 1588-1639 Ancestry Image
  6. 6.0 6.1 "Hawten-Hider." Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714. Ed. Joseph Foster. Oxford: University of Oxford, 1891. 679-705. British History Online. Web. 22 February 2023. BHO
  7. "Charles I - volume 414: March 1-20, 1639." Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I, 1638-9. Eds. John Bruce, and William Douglas Hamilton. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1871. 522-588. British History Online. Web. 20 February 2023. BHO
  8. "Volume 24: June 1652." Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Interregnum, 1651-2. Ed. Mary Anne Everett Green. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1877. 272-312. British History Online. Web. 22 February 2023. BHO
  9. Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 26/ Herbert, Philip (1584-1650) by Sidney Lee DNB
  10. Britain, Knights Of The Realm & Commonwealth Index findmypzst
  11. PCC 1 Pembroke
  12. Williamson, George Charles. Lady Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke & Montgomery, 1590-1676: Her Life, Letters and Work S R Publishers, 1967. Appendix, "Summary of the Will of the Earl of Pembroke", p. 462. p. 462
  13. National Burial Index For England & Wales/ Salisbury, Wiltshire, England FindMyPast

R.O. Inquisitiones post mortem. 43 Eliz. 1601. Part I. No. 181. Latin. "Inquisitiones post mortem: 1348-1601." Cardiff Records: Volume 1. Ed. John Hobson Matthews. Cardiff: Cardiff Records Committee, 1898. 288-306. British History Online. Web. 15 February 2023. BHO


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