Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
William Herbert first Duke of Powis
Standard Name: Powis, William Herbert,,, first Duke of
Used Form: Lord Powis
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Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Lucy Herbert | Lady Powis
, mother of two future writers (Lucy
and Winifred
, then about ten and seven), joined her husband
in the Tower of London, on a charge of Roman Catholic plotting against... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Lucy Herbert | Lucy's father, William Herbert
, owned estates in Wales and the Welsh marches, although much of the family's large properties had been forfeited after they fought for the monarchy in the English Civil War... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Winifred Maxwell Countess of Nithsdale | Winifred's father, William Herbert
, was a major land-owner in the Welsh marches and Wales proper, a convinced and hereditary monarchist, as active in government as his Catholic
religion allowed, a courtier and a soldier... |
Violence | Lady Lucy Herbert | When LLH
was about ten and her father
was imprisoned in the Tower of London, the home of her family in Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, was broken into at midnight by an armed mob. |
Violence | Lady Lucy Herbert | |
Wealth and Poverty | Winifred Maxwell Countess of Nithsdale | Before he died her father
became anxious that Winifred had been treated unfairly in the disposition of family money in comparison with her sisters (three of whom had married while the family was riding high)... |
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