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Sir John Brooke

Birth
Death
9 Mar 1512 (aged 64–65)
Burial
Cobham, Gravesham Borough, Kent, England Add to Map
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Sir John Brooke

Knight, Lord Cobham, of Weycroft, Devon, of Cooling, Kent. Son and heir of Edward Brooke and Elizabeth de Audley. Grandson of Thomas Brooke and Joan Braybrooke, James Tuchet and Margaret Roos. Great grandson of Reginald Braybrooke and Lady Joan Pole.

Husband of Margaret Neville, daughter of Sir Edward Neville and Katherine Howard.

They had eight sons and ten daughters, including:
Sir Thomas, 8th Lord Cobham
Sir Edward
George
Leonard
Mary, wife of Robert Blagge, John Barrett & Sir Richard Walden
Faith

He was summoned to Parliament from 19 August 1472 to 16 January 1497, journed to France on an expeditoin in 1475, present at the coronation of King Richard III in 1483 and of Queen Elizabeth Plantagenet in 1487.

Present at the Seige of Boulogne, defeated the Cornish at Blackhearth, where his cousin, Lord Audley, was taken prisoner and executed.
Sir John Brooke

Knight, Lord Cobham, of Weycroft, Devon, of Cooling, Kent. Son and heir of Edward Brooke and Elizabeth de Audley. Grandson of Thomas Brooke and Joan Braybrooke, James Tuchet and Margaret Roos. Great grandson of Reginald Braybrooke and Lady Joan Pole.

Husband of Margaret Neville, daughter of Sir Edward Neville and Katherine Howard.

They had eight sons and ten daughters, including:
Sir Thomas, 8th Lord Cobham
Sir Edward
George
Leonard
Mary, wife of Robert Blagge, John Barrett & Sir Richard Walden
Faith

He was summoned to Parliament from 19 August 1472 to 16 January 1497, journed to France on an expeditoin in 1475, present at the coronation of King Richard III in 1483 and of Queen Elizabeth Plantagenet in 1487.

Present at the Seige of Boulogne, defeated the Cornish at Blackhearth, where his cousin, Lord Audley, was taken prisoner and executed.


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