Biography of Edward Herbert 1st Baron Herbert Chirbury 1582-1648

Before 3rd March 1582 [his father] Richard Herbert [aged 25] and [his mother] Magdalen Newport were married.

On 3rd March 1582 Edward Herbert 1st Baron Herbert Chirbury was born to [his father] Richard Herbert [aged 25] and [his mother] Magdalen Newport at Eyton on Severn, Wroxeter.

In 1596 [his father] Richard Herbert [aged 39] died.

On 28th February 1599 Edward Herbert 1st Baron Herbert Chirbury [aged 16] and Mary Herbert Baroness Herbert Chirbury were married. They were fourth cousin once removed.

Around 1604 [his son] Richard Herbert 2nd Baron Herbert of Cherbury was born to Edward Herbert 1st Baron Herbert Chirbury [aged 21] and [his wife] Mary Herbert Baroness Herbert Chirbury. He married 19th November 1627 Mary Egerton Baroness Herbert of Cherbury, daughter of John Egerton 1st Earl Bridgewater and Frances Stanley Countess Bridgewater, and had issue.

In March 1609 [his step-father] John Danvers [aged 20] and [his mother] Magdalen Newport were married. They were fifth cousin once removed.

In 1611 John Eyre [aged 31] and Dorothy Bulstrode [aged 19] attempted to murder Edward Herbert 1st Baron Herbert Chirbury [aged 28] who he suspected of having an affair with his wife (Dorothy Bulstrode). Eyre and four accomplices caught up with Herbert and his two footmen at Scotland Yard as he was leaving Whitehall Palace [Map], and wounded his horse several times. Eyre broke Herbert's sword. Twenty more men appeared, Herbert thought them Eyre's supporters and attendants of the Earl of Suffolk [aged 49]. Two other men helped Herbert, and after a prolonged struggle he wounded Eyre, who was carried to the Thames vomiting. A few days later Eyre sent a message that he would kill Herbert with "a musket out of a window". Meanwhile, because Eyre claimed Dorothy had confessd to being unfaithful, she sent a letter to her aunt Lady Croke (Note. probably Prudence Croke [aged 44] possibly Elizabeth Croke denying this, and Herbert was able to give this letter to the Privy Council. The Duke of Lennox [aged 36] said that John Eyre was "the most miserable man living" because of the shame of Dorothy's letter, and because his father had disinherited him on hearing of the assault.

On 19th November 1627 [his son] Richard Herbert 2nd Baron Herbert of Cherbury [aged 23] and [his daughter-in-law] Mary Egerton Baroness Herbert of Cherbury were married at Bridgwater House Barbican. She the daughter of John Egerton 1st Earl Bridgewater [aged 48] and Frances Stanley Countess Bridgewater [aged 44].

On 7th May 1629 Edward Herbert 1st Baron Herbert Chirbury [aged 47] was created 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury. [his wife] Mary Herbert Baroness Herbert Chirbury by marriage Baroness Herbert Chirbury.

The History of England under Henry VIII. The History of England under Henry VIII. By Edward Herbert 1st Baron Herbert Chirbury [aged 65]. 1870.

On 5th August 1648 Edward Herbert 1st Baron Herbert Chirbury [aged 66] died. His son Richard [aged 44] succeeded 2nd Baron Herbert of Cherbury.

Life of Henry VIII by Edward Herbert. The life and raigne of King Henry the Eighth. Written By the Right Honourable Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury. 1649.