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.

Notes:

Name:
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]

Notes:

Name:
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.