Philip Herbert, 5th Earl of Pembroke

English nobleman, son of Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke, and Susan de Vere (1621–1669)

For other people with the same name, see Philip Herbert (disambiguation).

The Right Honourable

The Earl of Pembroke

Philip Herbert, 5th Earl of Pembroke

Born| 1621
Died| 11 December 1669
Nationality| English
Title| 5th Earl of Pembroke
Spouses|

* Penelope Naunton
* Catherine Villiers

Children| 4 (including William, 6th Earl, Philip, 7th Earl, and Thomas, 8th Earl)
Parent(s)| Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke
Susan de Vere

Philip Herbert, 5th Earl of Pembroke, 2nd Earl of Montgomery (1621 – 11 December 1669), was an English nobleman and politician.

## Life

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He was the second son of Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke, and his first wife Susan de Vere.[1] In February 1632 he appeared with his elder brother Charles in the masque Tempe Restored at Whitehall Palace.[2] Two months later the two boys matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford.[3] In the summer of 1635 they embarked on a Continental tour. Charles contracted smallpox and died in Florence in early January 1636. As a result of his death Philip became the heir to their father's titles.[4]

Portrait of Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke, his wife Susan de Vere and his Family, by Anthony van Dyck.

He was MP for Wiltshire in the Short Parliament of 1640. In the Long Parliament he sat initially for Glamorgan 1640–1649 and then Berkshire.[5] Philip succeeded his father as earl in 1650[1] and served as a Councillor of State 1651-2.[5]

After the Restoration he was active in the Council for Trade, Fishery Corporation and the Royal Africa Company.[5] He became a Quaker[6] and, according to Pepys, had an idiosyncratic interpretation of Original Sin.[5]

## Family

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In 1639, he married Penelope Naunton, widow of Paul Bayning, 2nd Viscount Bayning, and daughter of Sir Robert Naunton by his second wife, Penelope Perrot, widow of the astronomer Sir William Lower, and daughter of Sir Thomas Perrot and Dorothy Devereux.[7][8][9] They had one child, William, who succeeded his father as 6th Earl. In 1649, after the death of his first wife, he married Catherine Villiers, daughter of Sir William Villiers, 1st Baronet. They had one daughter and two sons, Philip and Thomas. Both sons later succeeded to their father's titles. Their daughter, Susan, married John Poulett, 3rd Baron Poulett. The younger Philip became notorious as "the infamous Earl", due to his frequent bouts of homicidal mania, during which he committed several murders.

## Notes

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1. ^ a b "Herbert, Philip (1584-1650)" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
2. ^ Nicolson, Adam (2009). Arcadia. p. 200.
3. ^ Foster, Joseph (1891). Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1715. Vol. 2\. pp. 694, 696.
4. ^ Nicolson 2009, p. 216.
5. ^ a b c d Latham, Robert (1983). The Diary of Samuel Pepys. Vol. 10\. p. 181.
6. ^ Swatland, Andrew (2002). The House of Lords in the Reign of Charles II. p. 176.
7. ^ Lower, Sir William (c.1570-1615), of St. Winnow, Cornwall and Trefenti (Tra'Venti), Llanfihangel Abercowin, Carmarthenshire, History of Parliament Retrieved 19 August 2013.
8. ^ Trefenty, Dyfed Archaeological Trust Retrieved 19 August 2013.
9. ^ Roche 2004.

## References

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* Roche, J.J. (2004). "Lower, Sir William (c.1570–1615)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/39195. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

Surveys of the Manors of Philip, earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, 1631-2, ed. E. Kerridge (Wiltshire Record Society vol. 9, 1953)

Political offices

Preceded by

The Marquess of Hertford

|  Lord Lieutenant of Somerset
1640–1646
With:  The Marquess of Hertford | English Interregnum
Honorary titles
English Interregnum |  Custos Rotulorum of Glamorgan and Pembrokeshire
1660–1669  | Succeeded by

The Earl of Pembroke

Peerage of England
Preceded by

Philip Herbert

|  Earl of Pembroke
1649–1669  | Succeeded by

William Herbert

Earl of Montgomery
1649–1669

Authority control databases

International|

* VIAF

National|

* Germany

People|

* Deutsche Biographie
* DDB

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