Sir Richard Pembridge (died 1375), KG, was one of the earliest appointed Knights of the Garter.
Sir Richard Pembridge (died 1375), KG, was one of the earliest appointed Knights of the Garter.
A Herefordshire man whose family background is uncertain, he fought at sea at the Battle of Sluys (1340) and alongside King Edward III at the Battle of Crécy (1346) and at the Battle of Poitiers (1356) during the Hundred Years' War. He served the king as Custodian of Southampton Castle in 1361 and then as Constable of Dover Castle and Warden of the Cinque Ports in 1370. [3] He was appointed a Knight of the Garter in 1368. In 1372 he refused to accept the post of Lieutenant of Ireland and as a result was in some disgrace at his death in 1375.
He married Elizabeth le Strange (d.1362), a daughter of John le Strange, 2nd Baron Strange (1305–1349), of Blackmere, by his wife Ankaret le Boteler, daughter of William Boteler, 1st Baron Boteler (died 1334), of Wem. Elizabeth was the widow successively of Edmund St John, 3rd Baron St John (d. 1347), of Basing, who died at the Siege of Calais in 1347, and of Gerard de Lisle, 1st Baron Lisle (1304-1360)of Kingston Lisle. By Elizabeth he had one son:
He was buried in the Black Friars Monastery in Hereford. As he died without surviving issue his eventual heirs were his nephews Sir Richard Burley and Sir Thomas de Barre.
His monument with recumbent effigy was originally situated in the Black Friars Monastery in Hereford, but following the Dissolution of the Monasteries [1] was moved to its present location in Hereford Cathedral. He is sculpted in life-size in alabaster, fully armed and wearing the Garter on his left leg below the knee. [4] Fisher (1898) wrote: [5]
His steel helm, one of only four 14th-century knight's helms to survive, is held at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. [2]
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