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'Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke' KG (1534–January 19 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 couple probably had their marriage annulled in 1554 when Queen Mary rose to the throne.
His second wife was Catherine Talbot, daughter of George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, and his wife Gertrude Manners, daughter of Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland.
His third wife was the former Mary Sidney. His children included William and Philip, who both were Earl of Pembroke after their father.
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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★ Haynes, Alan. ''Sex in Elizabethan England''. Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing Limited, 1997. ISBN 0-905-778-359