Sir Matthew Cradock (or Craddock) (d.1531)

Blazon Shield: Azure three boars heads couped between nine cross crosslets Argent. Crest: A boar's head couped Argent muzzled Gules (Not sure if this is the correct crest for this Cradock family)

Sir Matthew Cradock served the Earl of Worcester as chancellor of the Glamorgan and Steward of Gower and Kilvey. In Swansea he resided at The Plas, and was buried in the parish Church of St.Mary.

His first wife was Alice, daughter of Philip Mansel of Oxwich Castle. After her death he married, as her third husband, Lady Catherine Gordon, whose first husband was Perkin Warbeck, the pretender to the throne who had claimed to be Richard, Duke of York, one of the princes in the Tower.

Cradock's daughter Margaret married Richard Herbert, an illegitimate son of William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke (1423-69). Their son William was a guardian of the young King Edward VI, married a sister of Queen Catherine Parr, and was created Earl of Pembroke in 1551.