William Herbert 3rd Earl Pembroke [42391] ²⁵

   Cause of his death was Died of Apoplexy.

  General Notes:

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Knight of the Garter <http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Documents/Knights%20of%20the%20Garter.htm>. The Complete Peerage vol.X,pp.412-414. Died of Apoplexy. Gave his name to Pembroke College, Oxford was an investor in the Bermuda Company to colonize the Bermuda islands from 1612 onwards, Pembroke Parish, Bermuda is named after him, Chancellor of Oxford University 1617-30, there is a statue of him in the Schools Quadrangle, when Pembroke College, Oxford was founded in 1624 it was named after him. He and his brother Phillip are "the incomparable pair" to whom the First Folio of Shakespeare's Works is dedicated.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Acceded, 1601.

William married Mary Talbot Countess Pembroke [42390] [MRIN: 551609346], daughter of Gilbert Talbot 7th Earl Shrewsbury [42377] and Mary Cavendish Countess Shrewsbury [42378], on 4 Nov 1604. (Mary Talbot Countess Pembroke [42390] was born about 1580, died in 1650 in Ramsbury House, Wiltshire, England and was buried in Salisbury Cathedral, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England.)