![]() ![]() The pair married on the 3rd January 1458 at Maxstowe Castle. He was the second son of the Duke of Buckingham. The groom in question was Henry Stafford. They were on their way to arrange a marriage. In 1457 Margaret Beaufort, shown here in later life, along with her brother-in-law Jasper Tudor left Pembroke Castle. William’s eldest son, another William, was married to Mary Woodville a sister of Edward IV’s queen Elizabeth Woodville. William and his brother Richard were executed in the aftermath the Battle of Edgecote Moor. But having served the Yorkists loyally Herbert fell foul of the Earl of Warwick when he rebelled against King Edward IV in 1469. The plan was for Henry to marry one of Herbert’s daughters – Maud who eventually married into the Percy family. Essentially William was Jasper’s main Welsh rival during the Wars of the Roses which may be a bit of a simplification but it helps make sense of the politics. ![]() In July Edward, now King Edward IV, awarded Herbert a barony and he replaced Jasper Tudor as Earl of Pembroke and gained wardship of Henry Tudor. In 1461 William Herbert was with Richard of York’s son Edward at Mortimer’s Cross where he commanded the left flank. When William died in 1445 his son also named William adopted the name Herbert – I think it was because it was chosen because of a Norman ancestor but I’m not totally sure – given that he would have been styled William ap William or Gwilym ap Gwilym. Just a quick reminder Berkeley Castle is on the opposite side of the River Severn. In 1432 William purchased Raglan from the Berkeley family which comes as a relief because I was a bit concerned I was going to have to untangle the Berkeley family tree and its various feuds. Anyway, that aside after Elizabeth Bloet died William ap Thomas became a tenant to his Berkeley step-son. William’s service to Richard let to him being called the ‘Blue Knight of Gwent’. He was also Richard of York’s steward in Wales – Richard was Lord of Usk by descent from Lady Elizabeth de Burgh making him a descendent of William Marshal and Isabel de Clare. And that takes us slap bang into the fifteenth century and the Wars of the Roses.īy 1441 ap Thomas was steward for the Lordship of Abergavenny which is, of course, associated with the Neville family. Sir James Berkeley died and Elizabeth married for a second time to Sir William ap Thomas – and he’s responsible for the building as it stands today. The Bloets continued to hold Raglan until the fourteenth century at which point it was transmitted to the Berkeley family when Elizabeth Bloet ‘ The Lady of Raglan’ inherited her father’s estates. The site was granted by Strongbow de Clare to his man Walter Bloet. Married Richard Wingfield, son of John Wingfield and Elizabeth FitzLewis.Raglan in Gwent was, apparently, one of the last medieval castles to be constructed in England and Wales. Married Jasper Tudor, Edmund Tudor’s brother, both sons of Owen Tudor and Catherine of Valois. Married Henry Stafford, son of Humphrey Stafford and Margaret Beaufort (a paternal first cousin of the Margaret Beaufort who married Edmund Tudor and was the mother of Henry VII). Married William Herbert, son of William Herbert and Anne Devereux. Married Thomas FitzAlan, son of William FitzAlan and Joan Neville. Eleanor Woodville (1452 - about 1512).Married John le Strange, son of Richard Le Strange and Elizabeth de Cobham. Married the much-older Katherine Neville, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, daughter of Ralph Neville and Joan Beaufort and sister of Cecily Neville, his sister Elizabeth’s mother-in-law. ![]() Executed with his nephew Richard Grey by King Richard III. Married Elizabeth de Scales, then married Mary Fitz-Lewis. Married George Grey, son of Edmund Grey and Katherine Percy. Married William Bourchier, son of Henry Bourchier and Isabel of Cambridge. Mother of Edward V and Elizabeth of York. Married Thomas Gray, then married Edward IV. Husband: Sir Richard Woodville, a chamberlain in her first husband’s household. Children:.John of Lancaster died on September 15, 1435, in Rouen. Jacquetta retained the title for life of Duchess of Bedford, as it was a higher-ranking title than others she might later have been entitled to. He had previously been married to Anne of Burgundy from 1423 until her death in 1432. John was the third son of Henry IV of England and his wife, Mary de Bohun Henry IV was the son of John of Gaunt and his first wife, the Lancaster heiress, Blanche. John was thus the brother of King Henry V. Husband: John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford (1389 – 1435). Married April 22, 1433. ![]()
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