Sir Richard Herbert

• Name	Richard Herbert
  Prefix	Sir
  Gender	Male
  Person ID	I2827	Master
  Last Modified	11 May 2012

  
  

  Children	1. Jane Herbert
  Family ID	F900	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Jane Herbert was the daughter of Sir Richard Herbert, of Montgomery Castle, who was Gentleman Usher to King Henry VIII and resided at Blackhall where he dispensed a lavish hositality with great luxury. He was second son of Sir Richard Herbert, of Coldbrook Housr, near Abergravenny, Monmougshire, who was slain a Banbury in 1469. Of him his great-great-grandson writes as "that incomparable hero who twice passed thro a great army of Northern men alone , with his pole ax in his hand and returned without mortal hurt" He married Margaret, daughter of Thomas ap Griffth Nicholas of Dyneyor and sister of the reowned Sir Rhys ap Thomas, who slew Richard III on Bosworth Field. Sir Richard Herbert was the second son of Sir William ap Thomas, who was knighted in the year 1426 and died 1446. He acquired the lands and Castle of Raglan, from his mother's family, the Morleys. He was with Henry V, at Agincourt in 1415 and was known as William Thomas Herbert. He was the fifth son of Thomas ap Gwllinn of Perthir by his wife Maud, daughter and heiress of Sir John Morley, Knight and grandson of Jenkin ap Adam Lord of Kevondygewydd, who lived in the time Edward III and Richard II, Kings of England, and said to have been a descenndant of a Norman family famous at the time of the Conquest.