Joan BRAYBROOKE

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Baroness Cobham 'suo jure', only surviving daughter and heiress of her mother.

Joan married Thomas BROOKE, Knt. on 20 Feb 1409/10 in At Colling Castle, Kent, with Marraige settlement. Thomas was born about 1392; died on 12 Aug 1439; was buried in Thorncombe. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Edward BROOKE died before 8 Nov 1464.

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Reynold Braybrooke, Knt., of Cooling Castle, Kent, M.P. for Kent, is the son of Gerard Braybrooke, Knt., of Colmworth, co. Bedford, and Horsenden, co. Buckingham, by Margaret, daughter of John de Loungueville, of Orton Longueville, co. Huntingdon. They had two sons and one daughter. Sir Reynold Braybrooke was wounded in the attack on the citadel of Sluys in Flanders, and died four months later at Middleburg on the Scheldt on 20 Sep 1405, and was buried in Cobham Church.

Reynold married Joan DE LA POLE between Sep 1391 and Feb 1392. Joan (daughter of John DE LA POLE, Knt. and Joan COBHAM) died on 13 Jan 1433/4; was buried in Cobham Church. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Joan De La Pole, Baroness Cobham 'suo jure', daughter and heiress, was granddaughter and Heiress of John, 3rd Lord Cobham. She was married for the first time at an early age before November 1380 to Robert Hemenale, Knt., of Polstead Hall in Burnham Norton, Norfolk (and had a son William idiot from birth, who died after 1391). he died in September 1391 and was buried in Westminster Abbey. She was married for the second tie between September 1391 and February 1392, when still underage, to Reynold Braybrooke, Knt., of Cooling Castle, Kent.

She was married for the third time, within a year of his death, as his second wife, to Nicholas Hawberk, Knt. (died 9 Oct 1407). they had a son John who died as an infant. Within three months of his death she succeeded her grandfather as Lady of Cobham.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Son of William de la Pole, Knt., of Castle Ashby, by his wife Margaret Peverel, daughter of Edmund Peverel, of Castle Ashby

John married Joan COBHAM on 21 Oct 1362 in by contract. Joan (daughter of John DE COBHAM and Margaret DE COURTENAY) died about 1388; was buried in Chrishall Church, Essex. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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John De Cobham, 3rd Lord Cobham, son and heir of John de Cobham, Knt., 2nd Lord Cobham, of Cobham, Kent, by Joan, daughter of John Beauchamp, Knt., Baron of Hatch Beauchamp, Somerset by his wife Joan (said to be Chendit). he was married, when a minor, and apparently very young. He was summoned to Parliament from 20 Sep 1355 by writ directed 'Johanni de Cobeham', later with the addition of 'de Kent'. He founded the chantry of Cobham in 1362. he served in various French expeditions, 1359 to 1376, being made a Banneret in 1370. In 1388 he was one of the Lords Appellant who impeached de la Pole, de Veer, and others, the King's favourites. He was impeached at Shrewsbury in January 1397/8, and condemned to be hanged, but pardoned on condition of banishment to Jersey, when he returned within two years at the accession of King Henry IV. Margaret Courtenay died on 2 Aug. 1385, and was buried at Cobham. John De Cobham, Lord Cobham, died at an advanced age (seventy-four years after his marriage) on 10 Jan 1407/8 and was buried at the Grey Friars', London.

John married Margaret DE COURTENAY in 1332-1333. Margaret (daughter of Hugh DE COURTENAY, K.G. and Margaret DE BOHUN) died on 2 Aug 1385; was buried in Cobham. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]