The house was built in 1632 for the Herbert family, and its first known occupant was William Herbert (brother of Richard Herbert, Lord of Cherbury), who inherited it from their father, Edward Herbert.
Sir Richard Herbert (died 1510), illegitimate son of William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke
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Richard Herbert, Lord of Cherbury (died 1596), English Justice of the Peace and Parliamentarian, grandson of the above
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On 12 October 1642, together with his fellow-member Richard Herbert he was disabled from sitting in parliament, on account of their having joined the king at Oxford in the initial stages of the English Civil War.
Sir Richard Herbert of Coldbrook Park, near Abergavenny was a 15th-century Welsh knight, and the lineal ancestor of the Herberts of Chirbury.