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EARLS OF PEMBROKE

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 78 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EARLS OF

PEMBROKE  . The title of
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earl of Pembroke has been held successively by several
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English families, the jurisdiction and dignity of a palatine earldom being originally attached to it . The first creation
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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 possessed the lordship of Strigul (Estrighoiel, in Domesday
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Book), the
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modern
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Chepstow . After the
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battle of Lincoln (1141), in which he took
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part, the earl joined the party of the empress Matilda, and he married Henry I.'s
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mistress,
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Isabel, daughter of Robert de Beaumont, earl of Leicester .

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