HERBERT FAMILY

V. POWIS LINE

Edward HERBERT (Sir)

Born: 1547, Powis Castle, Montgomeryville, Wales

Died: 23 Mar 1593/4

Notes: of Powis Castle, Welshpool; ancestor of Marquess of Powis, which family stayed Catholic during Penal Times, involved in Jacobite resistance, extinct. Bought the Castle and the surrounding estates from Edward Grey, the illegitimate son of Edward Grey, the 4th and last Baron Grey of Powis in 1587.

Father: William HERBERT (1° E. Pembroke)

Mother: Anne PARR (C. Pembroke)

Married: Mary STANLEY 1571, Standon, Herfordshire, England

Children:

1. William HERBERT (1º B. Powis)

2. George HERBERT

3. Edward HERBERT

4. Elizabeth HERBERT

5. Anne HERBERT

6. Joyce HERBERT

7. Catherine HERBERT

8. Frances HERBERT

9. Jane HERBERT

10. Maria HERBERT

11. Winifred HERBERT

12. Eleanor HERBERT

¿Married: Mary CRADOCK (dau. of Mathew Cradock and Catherine Gordon) (from this match are descended the earls of Pembroke and Powis, Hans Stanley, Esq; George Rice, Esq; etc.)?

Eleanor HERBERT

Father: Edward HERBERT (Sir)

Mother: Mary STANLEY

Married: Walter BALDWIN (Ranger of Royal Forest in Salop)

Children:

1. Walter BALDWIN of Currovordy, Carrancoonig and Mossgrove (d. 28 Feb 1673)

Catherine HERBERT

Born: 1586, Powis Castle, Montgomeryshire, Wales

Father: Edward HERBERT (Sir)

Mother: Mary STANLEY

Married: William MASSY (son of John Massy and Elizabeth Aston) 1607

Children:

1. William MASSY

2. London MASSY

3. Edward MASSY

4. George MASSY

5. Richard MASSY

6. Anne MASSY

7. Charles MASSY

8. Herbert MASSY

9. Catherine MASSY

10. Elizabeth MASSY

11. Mary MASSY

William HERBERT (1º B. Powis)

Born: ABT 1572, Powis Castle, Montgomeryshire, Wales

Died: 7 Mar 1655 

Buried: Hendon, Middlesex

Notes: M.P. for Monmouthshire 1597-8, 1604-11, 1614, 1621-22 and 1624-29. Member of the Council for Wales 1608 and 1633; Sheriff of Montgomeryshire 1613; Constable and Steward of Radnor Castle 1631. He was a Royalist in the Civil War and held Powis Castle for the King until it fell to Parliament in 1644.

Father: Edward HERBERT (Sir)

Mother: Mary STANLEY

Married: Eleanor PERCY BEF 1600 / 1605, Petworth, Sussex, England

Children:

1. Lucy HERBERT

2. Catherine HERBERT

3. Percy HERBERT (2° B. Powis)

4. Son HERBERT

5. Dau. HERBERT

6. Dau. HERBERT

Lucy HERBERT

Born: 1608, Powis Castle, Montgomeryville, Wales

Father: William HERBERT (1º B. Powis)

Mother: Eleanor PERCY

Married: William HABINGTON ABT 1630

Catherine HERBERT

Born: 1606, Powis Castle, Montgomeryshire, Wales

Died: 1666

Father: William HERBERT (1º B. Powis)

Mother: Eleanor PERCY

Married 1: James PALMER of Dorney (Sir) 1625, Hindon, London, Middlesex, England

Children:

1. William PALMER (b. ABT 1626 - d. 22 Mar 1639)

2. Percy PALMER (b. ABT 1628)

3. James PALMER (b. ABT 1630)

5. Catherine PALMER (b. ABT 1632)

5. Roger PALMER (1º E. Castlemaine) (b. 3 Sep 1634 - d. 21 Jul 1700) (m. Barbara Villiers)

6. Frances Mary PALMER (b. ABT 1636)

7. Anne PALMER (b. ABT 1638)

8. James PALMER (b. ABT 1640)

9. Jane PALMER (b. 1642 - d. 4 Aug 1663)

Married 2: Robert VAUGHAN (Sir)

Percy HERBERT (2° B. Powis)

Born: 1610, Powis Castle, Montgomeryshire, Wales

Died: 19 Jan 1666/67, Powis Castle , Montgomeryshire, Wales

Father: William HERBERT (1º B. Powis)

Mother: Eleanor PERCY

Married: Elizabeth CRAVEN 1626, Powis Castle, Montgomeryshire, Wales

Children:

1.  William HERBERT (1° M. Powis) (b. ABT 1626 - d. 2 Jul 1696, St.Germain-en-Laye) (m. Elizabeth Somerset, Jul 1654 London)

2. Mary HERBERT

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