Herbert Fitz Herbert

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~Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 237:5, 246D:28, Lucy of Hereford, Lady of Blaen Llyfni and Bwlch y Dinas, Brecknock daughter and coheir of Sibyl de Neufmarché and Miles of Gloucester, married Herbert Fitz Herbert, and adut by 1165, son and eventual heir of Herbert Fitz Herbert and Sibyl Corbet. Lucy and Herbert were the parents of Piers Fitz Herbert. ¹⁶⁰

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• Background Information. ⁸⁰⁴
Herbert Fitz Herbert, who obtained from Henry II a confirmation of the landed possessions of his father, and likewise the office of chamberlain. In 12 Henry II, 1166, upon the assessment of the aid which was then levied for marrying the king's daughter, he certified that he held on knight's fee in Wilts and three in Berks. Upon the Conquest of Ireland, Henry II, at a great council held at Oxford, 1177, gave the kingdom of Limeric in that Reamed to this Herbert and William his brother, Reginald, Earl of Cornwall and Josceline de la Pomerai their nephew to be held by the service of sixty knight's fees, but it appears they declined the gift. In 6 Richard I,he was sheriff of the county of Gloucester, for one of that years and afterwards, during the whole reign of that king. In the eighth of the same reign, he was likewise sheriff of Shropshire. Herbert died in 1205 and was succeeded by his eldest surviving son, Peter.

Herbert married Lucie, third daughter of Milo Fitz Walter, Earl of Hereford, and by her acquired the Forest of Dene, which he afterward resided in the Castle of St. Michael, with other large possessions in the counties of Brecknock and Gloucester. The children of Herbert and Lucie were: Reginald Fitz Herbert, who died young and without children; Peter Fitz Herbert, his heir; Matthew Fitz Herbert, sheriff of Sussex, 1233, and being named one of the barons to King John, signed the Magna Charta in 1215. Matthew married Eleanora and had two sons, Herbert and Peter.

~Burke's A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. IV, 1838 edition, p. 728

Herbert married Lucy of Hereford, daughter of Mile de Pîtres 1st Earl of Hereford, and Constable of England and Sibyl de Neufmarché.¹⁶⁰ (Lucy of Hereford was born before 1219 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England, died after 1219 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England ¹⁶⁰ and was buried in Chapter House of Llanthony Priory, Gloucester, England ¹⁶⁰.)