Sir Richard Herbert (died 1469) of Coldbrook Park, near Abergavenny, was a 15th-century

Welsh Welsh may refer to: Related to Wales * Welsh, referring or related to Wales * Welsh language, a Brittonic Celtic language spoken in Wales * Welsh people People * Welsh (surname) * Sometimes used as a synonym for the ancient Britons (Celtic peop ...

knight A knight is a person granted an honorary title of knighthood by a head of state (including the Pope) or representative for service to the monarch, the church or the country, especially in a military capacity. Knighthood finds origins in the Gr ...

, and the lineal ancestor of the Herberts of Chirbury. He was the son of

William ap Thomas Sir William ap Thomas (died 1445) was a Welsh nobleman, politician, knight, and courtier. He was a member of the Welsh gentry family that came to be known as the Herbert family through his son William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke (8th creati ...

Raglan Castle Raglan Castle ( cy, Castell Rhaglan) is a late medieval castle located just north of the village of Raglan in the county of Monmouthshire in south east Wales. The modern castle dates from between the 15th and early 17th centuries, when the succ ...

and

Gwladys ferch Dafydd Gam Gwladys ferch Dafydd Gam (died 1454) was a Wales, Welsh noblewoman. She was the daughter of Dafydd ap Llewelyn ap Hywel, otherwise known as Dafydd Gam, who was killed at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415.#Prichard, Prichard pp. 431-433 Gwladys was ...

, and the brother of William Herbert,

Earl of Pembroke Earl of Pembroke is a title in the Peerage of England that was first created in the 12th century by King Stephen of England. The title, which is associated with Pembroke, Pembrokeshire in West Wales, has been recreated ten times from its origin ...

. He married Margaret, sister of Sir

Rhys ap Thomas Sir Rhys ap Thomas (1449–1525) was a Welsh soldier and landholder who rose to prominence during the Wars of the Roses, and was instrumental in the victory of Henry Tudor at the Battle of Bosworth. He remained a faithful supporter of Henry ...

. They had two sons: Sir William Herbert of Coldbrook, and Sir Richard Herbert of Powys. His great-grandson, Edward Herbert, was raised to the peerage in 1629. Like many members of the Welsh gentry, Herbert was a notable

bard In Celtic cultures, a bard is a professional story teller, verse-maker, music composer, oral historian and genealogist, employed by a patron (such as a monarch or chieftain) to commemorate one or more of the patron's ancestors and to praise t ...

ic patron. He was the principal patron of

Ieuan Deulwyn Ieuan Deulwyn (fl. c. 1460) was a Welsh language poet or bard. Poetry A collection of fifty of the poems of Ieuan Deulwyn were published in 1909 under the auspices of the Bangor Welsh Manuscripts Society, thanks to Ifor Williams.Ifor Williams, ...

, and was also a patron of

Guto'r Glyn Guto'r Glyn (c. 1412 – c. 1493) was a Welsh language poet and soldier of the era of the ''Beirdd yr Uchelwyr'' ("Poets of the Nobility") or ''Cywyddwyr'' ("cywydd-men"), the itinerant professional poets of the later Middle Ages. He is consid ...

as well as others. He hosted a bardic debate at Coldbrook House between Deulwyn and

Bedo Brwynllys Bedo Brwynllys (fl. c. 1460) was a Welsh language, Welsh-language poet or bard. Life He lived in the Bronllys area near Talgarth in Brycheiniog. Bedo was a love poet in the tradition of Dafydd ap Gwilym whose work is sometimes mis-assigned to Bed ...

. He was eulogized by Ieuan Deulwyn, Bedo Brwynllys,

Hywel Dafi Hywel (), sometimes anglicised as Howel or Howell, is a Welsh masculine given name. It may refer to: * Saint Hywel, a sixth-century disciple of Saint Teilo and the king of Brittany in the Arthurian legend. * Hywel ap Rhodri Molwynog, 9th-century k ...

, and (jointly with his brother William) Huw Cae Llwyd."Guto's Wales: The life of a poet in fifteenth-century Wales
/ref> Like his brother, he was a supporter of the

House of York The House of York was a cadet branch of the English royal House of Plantagenet. Three of its members became kings of England in the late 15th century. The House of York descended in the male line from Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, ...

during the

Wars of the Roses The Wars of the Roses (1455–1487), known at the time and for more than a century after as the Civil Wars, were a series of civil wars fought over control of the English throne in the mid-to-late fifteenth century. These wars were fought bet ...

. He fought alongside his brother at the

Battle of Edgcote The Battle of Edgcote (also known as the Battle of Banbury or the Battle of Danes Moor) took place on 24 July 1469, during the Wars of the Roses. It was fought between a Royal army, commanded by the earls of Pembroke and Devon, and a rebel forc ...

(a victory for rebels who supported the Earl of WEarwick and the Duke of Clarence), where he was captured and executed. He is interred with his wife at

Abergavenny Priory The Priory Church of St Mary, Abergavenny is a parish church in the centre of Abergavenny in Monmouthshire, Wales. St. Mary's has been called "the Westminster Abbey of Wales" because of its large size, and the numerous high status tomb monume ...

, near other members of his family.

References

Bibliography

* * * 1469 deaths People of the Wars of the Roses People executed under the Yorkists Executed Welsh people People executed under the Plantagenets by decapitation Year of birth unknown

Richard Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Frankish language, Old Frankish and is a Compound (linguistics), compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic language, Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' an ...

People from Raglan, Monmouthshire {{Wales-bio-stub