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Sir William ap Thomas, auch Sir William Herbert of Raglan oder auf Walisisch Margoah Glas oder Gumrhi genannt, war ein walisischer Adliger. Er war der Erbauer von Raglan Castle.
Sir William ap Thomas (died 1445) was a Welsh nobleman, politician, knight, and courtier. He was a member of the Welsh gentry family that came to be known as the Herbert family through his son William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke (8th creation) and is the agnatic ancestor, via an illegitimate descendant of the 1st Earl of the 8th ...
25. Dez. 2023 · William ap Thomas (died 1445) was a Welsh nobleman, politician, knight, and courtier. He was a member of the Welsh gentry family that came to be known as the Herbert family through his son William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke and is an ancestor of the current Earls of Pembroke.
William ap Thomas was the member of a minor Welsh gentry family and was responsible for beginning the construction of Raglan Castle as we recognize it today. He obtained Raglan through his marriage to Elizabeth Bloet, widow of Sir James Berkeley shortly after 1406.
Sir William ap Thomas, of Raglan in Gwent, was one of Guto’r Glyn’s early patrons. At the time when he first welcomed the poet into his home, perhaps sometime in the late 1430s, we can be sure that Sir William was the most prestigious patron whom Guto had yet served.
William ap Thomas , Sir. Died: 1445. William fought at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415 and in 1426 was knighted by Henry VI. He was known as 'The Blue Knight of Gwent' on account of the colour of his armour.
The tomb of Sir William ap Thomas (d. 1445) and his wife Gwladus Ddu, ‘the Star of Gwent’ (d. 1454), is one of the glories of the priory church of St Mary in Abergavenny. The Abergavenny tombs have long been regarded as the best collection of funerary sculptures in Wales and are certainly the best studied. As well as Churchyard’s ...
