Pedigree of Richard Herbert, Dolforgan

Pedigree, dated 1687, of Richard Herbert of Dolforgan, Kerry, Montgomeryshire, containing nineteen coats of arms, all painted, tracing Herbert's lineage, in the male line only, through fifteen generations, [?spuriously] from King Henry I and his son Herbert [?recte Henry] fitz Roy.
Husbands and wives are recorded in roundels beneath their impaled coats of arms; additional coats have been included to represent Herbert's wife's parents and maternal grandparents, and his daughter. Three generations have been added to the pedigree in a different hand (without heraldry), while further additions have been roughly sketched in pencil, [18 cent., last ¼]. Eight roundels have been left empty. The compilers of the pedigree are not named, however the Rev. John Jenkins (Ifor Ceri) ascribes it to Morris Evans of Llanfyllin, antiquary, and 'John Richardson, Herald Painter' (see NLW MS 1655B, f. 8; the repetition of this attribution alongside other pedigrees in the same volume (f. 13 verso) may cast doubt on its accuracy however). A dedication at the foot of the pedigree lists the authorities consulted (in NLW MS 1655B, f. 9 verso, Ifor Ceri appends the same list to a different pedigree altogether).

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Richard M. Ford; London; Purchase; October 2016; 99708141802419.

Title based on contents.

Not recorded in Michael Powell Siddons, Welsh Pedigree Rolls (Aberystwyth, 1996) or its additions and corrections.

Significant loss of pigment in places, in particular blue pigment. Repaired and flattened at NLW, October 2017.

December 2018.

Description compiled by Rhys M. Jones.

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According to Ifor Ceri (NLW MS 1655B, f. 8), the pedigree was still in the possession of 'the Family of Dolforgan' in 1828. The pedigree came to the vendor, with other unrelated documents, from an individual in the Dartford area, who was disposing of them on behalf of a third party.

For a copy of the pedigree (without heraldry) in the hand of the Rev. John Jenkins (Ifor Ceri), 1828, see NLW MS 1655B, ff. 7-8.

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