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Monumental effigy of Sir William ap Thomas. 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 ...
Sir William ap Thomas fue un noble, político, caballero y cortesano galés. Era miembro de la familia de la nobleza galesa que llegó a ser conocida como la...
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. When Elizabeth died in 1420, ap Thomas retained Raglan as a tenant of his step ...
25 de dic. de 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.
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.
04 Jun 2021. Image Credit: Shutterstock. About Raglan Castle. Raglan Castle is the dramatic ruin of a 15th century castle built by Welsh nobleman Sir William ap Thomas and completed by his son. The castle met its end during the English Civil War. Raglan Castle history.
Overview. Fingerprint. Abstract. 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.
