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William Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke (5 March 1451 – 16 July 1491) was the son of William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke and Anne Devereux. His maternal grandparents were Walter Devereux, Lord Chancellor of Ireland and Elizabeth Merbury. He succeeded his father in the earldom in 1469. In 1479, he surrendered the earldom, and was created Earl of Huntingdon.〔Michael Hicks, ''The Wars of the Roses'', (Yale University Press, 2012), 212.〕 A Yorkist, he married Mary Woodville, sister of the queen, Elizabeth Woodville,〔Charles Ross, ''Edward IV'', (University of California Press, 1974), 93.〕 and they had one daughter, Elizabeth Herbert, 3rd Baroness Herbert. He was the least wealthy of the earls of his time, and after his marriage to his second wife, Katherine, a natural daughter of King Richard III of England in 1484, he received an annuity of some 600 pounds a year, nearly doubling his income.〔Charles Ross, ''Richard III'', (University of California Press, 1981), 158.〕 Katherine is presumed to have died by 1487, because when William participated in the coronation of his first wife's niece, Elizabeth of York, he was noted to have been a widower. Herbert remained loyal to Richard III. After the rebellion of 1483 he received the post of Chief Justice of South Wales, which had been the Duke of Buckingham's.〔 When Henry of Richmond landed in south Wales in 1485 Herbert's position forced Henry to take a roundabout route into England.〔 It is likely that a Herbert agent first notified Richard III of Henry's landing.〔Charles Ross, ''Richard III'', 211.〕 Herbert did not, however, fight at Bosworth. When he died, his only child, Elizabeth Herbert, received the Herbert lands, including Raglan Castle, but not his title. However, oddly, his earldom did not pass to his younger brother, Walter Herbert. The earldom would however be granted again to the Herbert family in 1551 as the tenth creation to his nephew, Sir William Herbert, the son of Sir Richard Herbert, an illegitimate son of William's father. The Herbert family today, still retains the earldom of Pembroke among others. ==Notes== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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