Everything about Henry Herbert 2nd Earl Of Pembroke totally explained
Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke KG (
1534 –
January 19 1601) was a statesman of the
Elizabethan era. He was the son of
William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke and
Anne Parr. He was married to
Catherine Grey on May 1553, in a political match arranged by their parents. The couple probably had their marriage annulled in 1554 when
Queen Mary rose to the throne.
His second wife was Catherine Talbot, daughter of
George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, and his wife
Gertrude Manners, daughter of
Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland.
His third wife was the former
Mary Sidney. His children included
William and
Philip, who both were
Earl of Pembroke after their father.
The armor of Henry Herbert is now on display at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art in the Arms and Armor galleries. It was made in 1580 at the Greenwich armoury, a royal workshop founded by
Henry VIII to produce armour for the English nobility, chiefly Henry, without having to commission it from overseas.
During the 1590s he was
patron of
Pembroke's Men, a theatre company who were the first group to perform a number of plays including
Henry VI, part 1 by William Shakespeare and
The Isle of Dogs by
Thomas Nashe and
Ben Jonson.
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