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three sons by his wife, Anno, daughter of Sir Walter Dcvcreux, but 

 in these we are not concerned : 1 he also had by his mistress, Maud, 

 daughter and heiress of Adam ap Howell Graunt, two other sons ; 

 it is the eldest of them, Sir Richard Herbert, of Ewyas, who, though 

 illegitimate, is ancestor of the men who have really, in modern times, 

 rendered the name of Herbert illustrious. He married Margaret, 

 daughter of Sir Matthew Cradock, of Swansea. His eldest son, 

 William Herbert — the subject of the present memoir — was made 

 Earl of Pembroke (second creation), and is ancestor of the existing 

 Earls of Pembroke and Montgomery, and of Carnarvon, of the Duke 

 of Powis, of Pool Castle (extinct 1747), and, in the female line, of 

 the Marquis of Bute, who thence derives his Glamorganshire estates. 



This Sir Richard, of Ewyas, has a very fine canopied tomb in 

 Abergavenny Church. It still retains traces of rich colouring, and 

 is ornamented with several shields bearing the three lions of the 

 Herberts with the bendlet, also the three boars' heads and crosslets 

 of the Cradock's. 



There is also a fine altar- tomb in alabaster, carrying the effigies 

 of Sir Richard Herbert and his wife, of Coldbrook, already mentioned 

 as brother to the Earl of Pembroke of the first creation. This Sir 

 Richard, of Coldbrook, must be carefully distinguished from Sir 

 Richard, of Ewyas, for by some strange mistake the effigies of this 

 monument are figured in Sir R. C. Hoare's account of Wilton, in 

 his Modern Wilts, as those of Sir Richard Herbert, of Ewyas and 

 his wife, ancestors of the Earls of Pembroke, they being really the 

 effigies of Sir Richard Herbert, of Coldbrook, and his wife, who had 

 nothing to do with the Earls of Pembroke. In the plate they are 

 accompanied with shields of arms of Herbert without the bendlet, 

 which is most conspicuous in the real tomb of Sir Richard, of Ewyas, 

 and also the arms of Cradock, thus mixing up the two monuments 

 by giving the figures of one with the arms of the other. Upon 



1 William, second earl (first creation), exchanged the dignity for that of Hun- 

 tingdon in 1479, King Edward being desirous to confer the earldom of Pembroke 

 upon his son, Prince Edward. This William left an only daughter and heiress, 

 Elizabeth, who married Charles Somerset, first Earl of Worcester, but having no 

 male issue his honours expired. (Burke's Extinct Peerage). 



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