Title: Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (d. 1649)
Content:  Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke ' Mary Talbot''' (c. 1580 &ndash; March 1649) 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. In June 1600 she was appointed as gentlewoman of the privy chamber of Queen Elizabeth and her sister Elizabeth was a maid of honour. She married William Herbert on 4 November 1604 at Wilton, Wiltshire, and had one child, Henry, who died in infancy. Mary Herbert and her sister the Countess of Arundel were asked to "grace the court" during the visit of a French aristocrat, the Count of Vaudémont, in October 
Title: Henry Herbert, 17th Earl of Pembroke
Content:  Herbert was the only son of the 16th Earl of Pembroke and 13th Earl of Montgomery and his wife, Mary (a daughter of the 1st Marquess of Linlithgow) and a godson of Prince George, Duke of Kent. Through the 11th Earl of Pembroke, he descended from Countess Catherine Vorontsov. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford and briefly served with the Royal Horse Guards from 1958–60 before in 1969 inheriting his father's titles and estate centred on Wilton House in Wiltshire.
Title: William Herbert, 18th Earl of Pembroke
Content:  Pembroke is the only son of the 17th Earl by his wife, the former Claire Rose Pelly, who is now married to Stuart Wyndham Murray-Threipland. He has three older sisters and three younger half-sisters by his father's second marriage. He inherited the ancestral titles and estates, centring on Wilton House, the family seat in Wiltshire, when his father died in 2003. In April 2009, he announced his engagement to his long-time girlfriend, Victoria Bullough. The couple were married on 29 May 2010 at the parish church of St Mary and St Nicholas in Wilton, near Salisbury. Their first child, Lady Alexandra Eloise Ekaterina Herbert, was born at Salisbury District Hospital on 3 April 2011. A son and heir apparent, Reginald Henry Michael, Lord Herbert, was born on 
Title: Elizabeth Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
Content:  Elizabeth Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, Countess of Montgomery (January/March 1737 – 30 April 1831) was the daughter of Charles Spencer and Elizabeth Trevor.
Title: Henry Herbert, 17th Earl of Pembroke
Content:  Mary Herbert (10 November 1991) ; Lady Katie Ella Herbert (26 August 1997) On 20 January 1966 he married Claire Rose, daughter of Douglas Gurney Pelly, scion of the Pelly baronets. The couple divorced in 1981. They had four children:  In 1988 he married Miranda Juliet (born 1962), daughter of Lt John Somerville Kendall Oram, of Whitwick Manor, Ledbury, Herefordshire, and his first wife, Juliet Hermione, daughter of John Roland Abbey, of Redlynch House, Salisbury, the former High Sheriff of Sussex. They had three daughters.  Pembroke died in 2003, and his titles and estates passed to his only son, William Herbert.
Title: Henry Herbert, 10th Earl of Pembroke
Content: George Augustus Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke, 8th Earl of Montgomery (1759–1827), son and heir, who married firstly in 1787, Elizabeth Beauclerk and secondly in 1808 Countess Catherine Romanovitch. ; Charlotte Herbert (1773–1784), who died from consumption at age 10. On 23 March 1756 he married the 19-year-old Lady Elizabeth Spencer (January/March 1737–30 April 1831), a daughter of Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough by his wife Elizabeth Trevor. By Elizabeth he had issue as follows:
Title: George Herbert, 13th Earl of Pembroke
Content:  Pembroke was the eldest son of Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea, only son of George Augustus Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke, by his second wife Catherine (née Countess Woronzow). His mother was Elizabeth Herbert, Baroness Herbert of Lea, daughter of Lieutenant-General Charles Ashe A'Court. He succeeded his father in the barony of Herbert of Lea in 1861 and the following year he inherited the earldom of Pembroke on the death of his uncle.
Title: Mary Sidney
Content: William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke (1580–1630), was the eldest son and heir. ; Katherine Herbert (1581–1584) died as an infant. ; Anne Herbert (born 1583 – after 1603) was thought also to have been a writer and a storyteller. ; Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke (1584–1650), succeeded his brother in 1630. Philip and his older brother William were the "incomparable pair of brethren" to whom the First Folio of Shakespeare's collected works was dedicated in 1623. In 1577, Mary Sidney married Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke (1538–1601), a close ally of the family. The marriage was arranged by her father in concert with her uncle, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. After her marriage, Mary became responsible with her husband for the management of a number of estates which he owned including Ramsbury, Ivychurch, Wilton House, and Baynard's Castle in London, where it is known that they entertained Queen Elizabeth to dinner. She had four children by her husband: Mary Sidney was an aunt to the poet Mary Wroth, daughter of her brother Robert.
Title: Philip Herbert, 7th Earl of Pembroke
Content:  On 8 July 1674, at the age of twenty-two, Herbert succeeded his elder half-brother William as Earl of Pembroke and Earl of Montgomery, and on 17 December the same year he married Henrietta de Kéroualle, the sister of Charles II's mistress Louise de Kéroualle. By this marriage, Herbert had his only child, a daughter named Charlotte, who married firstly John Jeffreys, 2nd Baron Jeffreys, (son of the notorious 'hanging judge'), and secondly, Thomas Windsor, 1st Viscount Windsor. She died in 1733, leaving issue by both marriages. Her mother had died in 1728, having made a second marriage to Jean-Timoleon Gouffier, Marquis de Thois. Pembroke served as Custos Rotulorum ("Keeper of the Rolls") of Pembrokeshire and of Glamorgan from 1674, and as Custos Rotulorum and Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire from 20 May 1675 until his death.
Title: Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (d. 1649)
Content:  Rowland Whyte mentioned a dance at Hampton Court held in the presence chamber of Anne of Denmark. Mary Herbert, described as "Lady Pembroke", danced with a member of the count's entourage, Prince Henry, and the Earl of Perth. Whyte wrote "No lady there did dance near so well as she did that day". Whyte added that the sisters were reluctant to write to their parents themselves. They were joined at Hampton Court by Lady Mary Wroth and Lady Montgomery. 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.

Question: Who is the father of Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke?
Answer: Gilbert Talbot, 7th Earl of Shrewsbury.