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Earl of Pembroke is a title in the Peerage of England that was first created in the 12th century by King Stephen of England. The title, which is associated with Pembroke, Pembrokeshire in West Wales, has been recreated ten times from its original inception. Due to the number of creations of the Earldom, the original seat of Pembroke Castle is ...
- Reginald Henry Michael Herbert, Lord Herbert
- Peerage of England
Pembroke (novel) Pembroke. (novel) Pembroke (1894) is a novel written by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. It is set in the small town of Pembroke, Massachusetts in the 1830s and 40s. The novel tells the story of a romance gone awry and the dramatic events that follow, which entertain the residents of the small town for years after.
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William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke (1146 or 1147 – 14 May 1219), also called William the Marshal ( Norman French: Williame li Mareschal, [1] French: Guillaume le Maréchal ), was an Anglo-Norman soldier and statesman. [2] He served five English kings: Henry II and his son and de jure co-ruler Young King Henry, Richard I, John, and finally ...
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- John Marshal
- Sybilla of Salisbury
In fact, Freeman based the novel on her own home-life situation in many ways. Freeman took the Puritan’s tragic flaw of exerting a force beyond recognizable limits and used it to show the results of Puritanism gone wrong. However, the ending of the novel showed a sign that things were changing. Puritanism in society was coming to an end.
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PEMBROKE The title of earl of Pembroke has been held successively by several English families, the jurisdiction and dignity of a palatine earldom being originally attached to it. The first creation dates from 1138, when the earldom of Pembroke was conferred by King Stephen on Gilbert de Clare (d. 1148), son of Gilbert Fitz-Richard, who ...
All of Elizabethan England mourned when the noble poet, courtier, and soldier died in 1586 from a wound received fighting in the Low Countries in the struggle against Catholic Spain. The first pastoral English novel, Arcadia was written by Sidney in the late 1570s to entertain his sister (Mary Herbert, the Countess of Pembroke) and her circle ...
The Earldom of Pembroke was created in 1138. CREATION OF THE EARLDOM 1138. Gilbert de Clare "Strongbow". Gilbert de Clare was created first Earl, a strong and powerful ruler loyal to the crown. The Earl was given palatinate powers “Neither had the king of England, as king only, anything to deal or meddle within the said county, but the Earls ...
