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Anne Herbert, Countess of Pembroke

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216: 40: 302:. It is likely that Anne met her husband at court. It is not known whether or not the marriage was a love match, but both Anne and her sister Catherine had been attracted to dashing men of action who were slightly disreputable. The Herberts, due to King Henry's newly found infatuation for Catherine, appeared to be in the King's favour, as for the next few years Anne and her husband received a succession of Royal grants which included the 280: 396:
arrests were due to take place, he was reconciled to Catherine. On 28 January 1547, the King died. After Henry VIII's death, when the queen dowager's household was at Chelsea, both Anne and her son Edward were part of the household there. Her husband, William Herbert was appointed as one of the guardians to the new king,
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who was the principal tutor at the Royal school. Anne would have been taught French, Latin, philosophy, theology, and the Classics. Maud Green had already taught her children to read and write when they were small. Anne herself later said that her education at home was based on the approach used in
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Catherine visited the King in his bedchamber and adroitly managed to persuade the King that her interest in the new religion had been undertaken solely as a means to provide stimulating conversation to distract the King from the pain caused by his ulcerous leg. Henry was appeased, and before the
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was crowned queen in 1533, Anne Parr continued in the same capacity as maid-of-honour. She quickly succumbed to the spell of Queen Anne's charismatic personality and following the Queen's example, she became an ardent supporter of the New Faith. After Anne Boleyn's fall from power and subsequent
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was arrested for heresy. Those who opposed the Queen tried to gain a confession from Askew that the Queen, her sister, and the other women were Protestants. Queen Catherine and some of her closest friends had previously shown favour to the arrested woman.
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described as a "sabelles heade" set with 21 diamonds and a ruby in its mouth, with four gold claws. Other jewels included a gold girdle set with pearls and counterfeited rubies and sapphires, a locket or "tablet" with a portrait of
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during the King's campaign against the French. Anne was her sister's chief lady-in-waiting and the sisters were close. Anne was also part of the clique of Protestants who surrounded the new Queen. In 1546, fellow Protestant
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James 2009, p.133, p. 322 fn. 56, "She may also have been the subject of one of Holbein's most expressive drawings, executed during the period Anne served as a gentlewoman of the queen's privy chamber. <...> R.L.
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were involved in torturing Anne Askew and interrogating her about her connections to the ladies at court who were suspected to be Protestants, in particular: Anne Parr; the Queen;
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Sometime in 1528, Maud Green secured her 13-year-old daughter, Anne, a post at Court as maid-of-honour to Queen Catherine of Aragon. Anne was then made a
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leaving her mother a widow at twenty-five, pregnant, and with the grave responsibility of guarding the inheritance of the Parr children. Maud Green was a
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on 12 July 1543, when King Henry married her sister Catherine. In September 1544, William Herbert was knighted on the battlefield at the Siege of
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where boys and girls were educated together; as was the case with the Parrs until her brother left home in 1525 to join the household of
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An inventory made in 1561 included the Countess's remaining possessions, and is now held by the National Art Library at the
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of England, who was an uncle of King Edward. In September 1548, following the birth of a daughter,
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Anne Herbert, Countess of Pembroke depicted in a stained glass window at Wilton Parish Church.
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The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom,
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Anne died on 20 February 1552. At the time of her death, she was one of the ladies of the
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near Richmond. In August, the queen sent a barge to bring Anne by river from Syon back to
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Lady Anne Herbert (1550–1592), married Francis, Lord Talbot, son of
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execution, Anne remained at Court in the service of the new queen,
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and park, and he obtained some property which had belonged to the
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Anne Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, Baroness Herbert of Cardiff
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Anne Parr was a witness to the wedding ceremony performed at
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in Middlesex for her lying in. After the birth, Anne visited
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on 15 October 1537 and was part of the funeral cortege of
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Princely Magnificence: Court Jewels of the Renaissance
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On 10 October 1551, Anne's husband was raised to the
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Anthony Martienssen "Queen Katherine Parr", page 21
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On 21 May 1553, married 278: 259:When King Henry took as his fourth wife 214: 837: 811:Catherine Parr: Henry VIII's Last Love 662:, London: A. & C. Black, pp. 84–87 400:. Catherine shortly afterward married 751:"Herbert, William (1501?-1570)"  665: 567:George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury 534:George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury 300:William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke 284:William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke 142: 95:William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke 504:John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster 436:. In 1553 he received the disgraced 338:, who had also just given birth, at 540:by whom he had children, including 526:Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke 432:and on 11 October 1551 was created 105:Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke 13: 619:in the fourth and final season of 390:Anne Calthorpe, Countess of Sussex 14: 931: 599:Depictions in television and film 349: 171:Anne was born on 15 June 1515 to 895:Household of Catherine of Aragon 757:Dictionary of National Biography 560:William Herbert, 1st Baron Powis 310:(pulled down and built over for 38: 790: 290:In February 1538, Anne married 16:English noblewoman and courtier 880:Burials at St Paul's Cathedral 777: 764: 708: 698: 689: 652: 166: 1: 910:Household of Catherine Howard 870:16th-century English nobility 645: 593:Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 448:and a newly built mansion at 419: 23:Anne Herbert (disambiguation) 7: 915:Household of Catherine Parr 905:Household of Anne of Cleves 658:Besant, Sir Walter (1903), 274: 226: 10: 936: 865:16th-century English women 785:Early Modern Court Culture 580:Victoria and Albert Museum 298:, the illegitimate son of 65:20 February 1552 (aged 36) 20: 900:Household of Jane Seymour 860:English ladies-in-waiting 787:, (Routledge, 2022), 362. 573: 412:, Catherine Parr died of 126: 116: 100: 90: 74: 61: 49: 37: 30: 890:Household of Anne Boleyn 516: 430:Baron Herbert of Cardiff 372:, Bishop of Winchester; 221:Hans Holbein the Younger 32:The Countess of Pembroke 809:Susan E. 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Anne Herbert (disambiguation)

Baynard's Castle
St Paul's Cathedral
City of London
William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke
Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke
Sir Edward Herbert
Sir Thomas Parr
Maud Green
née
lady-in-waiting
Henry VIII of England
six wives
Catherine Parr
Sir Thomas Parr
Maud Green
William Parr, 1st Marquess of Northampton
sweating sickness
lady-in-waiting
Catherine of Aragon
Humanist
Joan Lluís Vives
Thomas More
Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset

Hans Holbein the Younger
ward
Henry
Anne Boleyn

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