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PEMBROKE, EARLS OF

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 78 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PEMBROKE, EARLS OF . The See also:title of See also:earl of Pembroke has been held successively by several See also:English families, the See also:jurisdiction and dignity of a See also:palatine earldom being originally attached to it. The first creation See also:dates from 1138, when the earldom of Pembroke was conferred by See also:King See also:Stephen on See also:Gilbert de See also:Clare (d. 1148), son of Gilbert Fitz-See also:Richard, who possessed the lordship of Strigul (Estrighoiel, in Domesday See also:Book), the See also:modern See also:Chepstow. After the See also:battle of See also:Lincoln (1141), in which he took See also:part, the earl joined the party of the empress See also:Matilda, and he married See also:Henry I.'s See also:mistress, See also:Isabel, daughter of See also:Robert de See also:Beaumont, earl of See also:Leicester.

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