Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (d. 1649)
Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke was the wife of William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke.
Mary was the daughter of Gilbert Talbot, 7th Earl of Shrewsbury, by his wife Mary, and was thus a granddaughter of Bess of Hardwick. She had two sisters, both of whom also married into the nobility: Alethea Howard, Countess of Arundel, and Elizabeth Grey, Countess of Kent.
She married Herbert on 4 November 1604 at Wilton, Wiltshire, and had one child, Henry, who died in infancy.
The Talbot Papers, held in Lambeth Palace Library, include several references to Mary. It appears from a letter of 1603 that Sir Thomas Edmondes was instrumental in persuading her father of the advantages of her marrying Pembroke.
Following her husband's death in 1630, the dowager countess sometimes stayed at Baynard's Castle. She died at Ramsbury Manor, Wiltshire, and was buried at Salisbury Cathedral.
