Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke: Difference between revisions

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*[[Philip Herbert, 5th Earl of Pembroke]] (c. 1621–1669)

Philip Herbert married secondly [[Lady Anne Clifford|Anne Clifford, de jure Baroness de Clifford]], daughter of [[George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland]], and widow of Sackville, earl of Dorset, on [[1 June]] [[1630]].

Also in [[1630]], he succeeded to the earldom of Pembroke when his older brother William, the 3rd earl, died without legitimate children. Philip's quarrelsome disposition often led him into trouble, as it did with Thomas Wentworth, viscount and later first earl of Strafford and Herbert's own second wife Lady Anne Clifford, but he continued in royal favour with King [[Charles I of England|Charles I]], who made him lord chamberlain in 1626 when his brother William was promoted from that office to be lord steward, and frequently visited him at Wilton. Charles depended on Montgomery to exercise his considerable local parliamentary patronage on behalf of the crown in the parliaments of the 1620s, as well as in the Short Parliament of April 1640. He worked to bring about peace between the king and the Scots in 1639 and 1640, although he was suspected of double-dealing, and when the quarrel between Charles and the English parliament turned to civil war, he deserted the king and lost his office of chamberlain.