Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke

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Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke KG (1534–1601) was a statesman of the Elizabethan era. He was the son of William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke and Anne Parr. He was married to Catherine Grey on May 1553, in a political match arranged by their parents. The unconsummated marriage was later annulled after the fall of Lady Jane Grey at his father's request. His second wife was the former Mary Sidney.

The armor of Henry Herbert is now on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the Arms and Armor galleries. It was made in 1580 at the Greenwich armoury, a royal workshop founded by Henry VIII to produce armour for the English nobility, chiefly Henry, without having to commission it from overseas.

During the 1590s he was patron of Pembroke's Men, a theatre company who were the first group to perform a number of plays including Henry VI, part 1 by William Shakespeare and The Isle of Dogs by Thomas Nashe and Ben Jonson.

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The Earl of Pembroke

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John Herbert |- |-

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Sir Henry Sidney

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