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    Pembroke Castle (Welsh: Castell Penfro) is a medieval castle in the centre of Pembroke, Pembrokeshire in Wales. The castle was the original family seat...
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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, French: Guillaume...
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    of Pembroke. Pembroke town and castle and its surroundings are linked with the early Christian church. Following the final extension of the castle about...
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    Pembroke Castle is no longer attached to the title. As of 2018[update], the current holder of the earldom is William Herbert, 18th Earl of Pembroke,...
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  • formerly Pembroke County, Tasmania Pembroke Parish Pembroke, West Hants, Nova Scotia Pembroke, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia Pembroke, Ontario Pembroke, Dublin...
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    Preseli Mountains. During the Middle Ages several castles were built by the Normans, such as Pembroke and Cilgerran, and St David's Cathedral became an...
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  • in various historic locations across the United Kingdom, including Pembroke Castle in Wales and Chenies Manor House in Buckinghamshire, England. Released...
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    Castellan of Pembroke Castle in Pembrokeshire (formerly part of the Kingdom of Deheubarth). Son of the first Norman-French Constable of Windsor Castle, and married...
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    organized an attack and conquer all their estates in Wales, leaving only Pembroke Castle standing to this day. At the beginning of the 12th century, the family...
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    HMS Pembroke Castle was a Castle-class corvette built for the British Royal Navy during the Second World War. Before completion, the ship was transferred...
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    Gerald de Windsor (c. 1075 – 1135), Constable of Pembroke Castle and son of the Constable of Windsor Castle in Berkshire, by whom she was the ancestress of...
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  • named HMS Pembroke. HMS Pembroke (1655) was a 28-gun fifth rate launched in 1655 and lost in a collision off Portland in 1667. HMS Pembroke (1690) was...
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    There are several other notable castles in area: Wiston Castle lies 6 miles (10 km) to the northeast and Pembroke Castle lies 12 miles (19 km) to the south...
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    Henry VII of England (category People from Pembroke, Pembrokeshire)
    King in 1461, Jasper Tudor went into exile abroad. Pembroke Castle, and later the Earldom of Pembroke, were granted to the Yorkist William Herbert, who...
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    Middle Ages and were the proprietors of the monumental Caerphilly Castle, Pembroke Castle, Castell Coch, and over 190 manors in England. The Clare family...
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    Jasper Tudor, Earl of Pembroke, on 28 January 1457, the 13-year-old Margaret gave birth to a son, Henry Tudor, at Pembroke Castle. As she was not yet physically...
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    Isabel de Clare, suo jure 4th Countess of Pembroke and Striguil (c. 1172 – 11 March 1220), was an Anglo-Norman and Irish noblewoman descended from Aoife...
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    in 1461, Herbert replaced Jasper Tudor as Earl of Pembroke which gave him control of Pembroke Castle – and with it, he gained the wardship of young Henry...
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    The Norman castle has its origins in a stone keep built by Gerald de Windsor around the year 1100. Gerald was made castellan of Pembroke Castle by Arnulf...
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    command of the Colonel John Poyer, the Parliamentarian Governor of Pembroke Castle. He was joined by Major-General Rowland Laugharne, his district commander...
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    Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke (c. 1270 – 23 June 1324) was an Anglo-French nobleman. Though primarily active in England, he also had strong connections...
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    of Scotland. Born at Pembroke Castle, Isabel was the seventh child, and second daughter, of William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke and Isabel de Clare....
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    in Carmarthen, three months before the birth of the couple's son at Pembroke Castle. That son, Henry, later became king of England and founded the Tudor...
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    Barry family. The castle was part of a mesne lordship under the control of the medieval Earls of Pembroke. Manorbier enclosure castle has curtain walls...
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    Poyer, Governor of Pembroke Castle, refused to relinquish command; he was soon joined by Rice Powell, who commanded Tenby Castle, then by Laugharne....
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    1468. On his return, Jasper lost Pembroke Castle to William Herbert, when Herbert was given the title of Earl of Pembroke by King Edward IV. Jasper Tudor...
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    the Pembroke Lordship - Haverford (the west of the Daugleddau Estuary) and Dungleddy (the east), thus supplementing his garrison at Pembroke Castle with...
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    Gerald de Windsor (Gerald FitzWalter) was the first Castellan of Pembroke Castle in Wales, and became the male progenitor of the FitzMaurice and FitzGerald...
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    and community of Manorbier. The Pembroke River rises at nearby Hogeston Hill to flow past Lamphey and Pembroke Castle. Manorbier Newton has a coaxial...
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    (ex-HMS Sherborne Castle) HMCS St. Thomas (K488) (ex-HMS Sandgate Castle, later SS Camosun III) HMCS Tillsonburg (K496) (ex-HMS Pembroke Castle), sold to Republic...
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