Image: The tomb of Sir Richard Herbert of Ewyas (died 1510) - geograph.org.uk - 710352

Description: Church of St Mary, Abergavenny, Wales, monument to Sir Richard Herbert, Knight (died 1510) of Ewyas, Herefordshire, an illegitimate son of William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke, and Maud ap Howell, a daughter of Adam ap Howell Graunt (Gwynn). Elaborate wall arch tomb and alabaster effigy. He married Margaret Cradock, a daughter of Sir Matthew Cradock of Swansea and of Alice (or Jane) Mancell, widow of John Malefant. Sir Matthew Cradock was receiver of Glamorgan, through whom Castleston Castle (inherited from the de Cantilupe family) passed to his daughter Margaret Cradock and her husband Sir Richard Herbert, whose son was William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke (died 1570), who quartered the arms of de Cantilupe of Candleston. (see An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Glamorgan ..., Volume 1; Volume 3 By Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales, pp.408-9[1]. Arms: Herbert impaling Cradock (Azure semee of cross-crosslets three boar's heads couped argent)
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