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

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, and his first wife Susan de Vere. He succeeded his father in 1649. In 1639, he married Penelope Naunton, widow of Paul Bayning, 2nd Viscount Bayning, and daughter of

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by his second wife, Penelope Perrot, widow of the astronomer Sir William Lower, and daughter of

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and Dorothy Devereux.Trefenty, Dyfed Archaeological Trust
Retrieved 19 August 2013. They had one child,

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, who succeeded his father as 6th Earl. In 1649, after the death of his first wife, he married Catherine Villiers, daughter of

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. They had one daughter and two sons,

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and

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. 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. He was MP for

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in 1640 and

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in 1640–1649.

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References

* ''Surveys of the Manors of Philip, earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, 1631-2'', ed. E. Kerridge (

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vol. 10, 1953) , - 1621 births 1669 deaths Herbert family Chancellors of the University of Oxford 5

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