Primary Sources

Inquisitions Post Mortem for Thomas Brook, knight, Writ. 20 August 1439.

"Joan his wife"

He died on 12 August last [1439]. Edward Brook, knight, his son and next heir, is aged 24 years and more.

Family and Education

b.c.1391, s. and h. of Sir Thomas Brooke*. m. at Cooling castle, Kent between 5 Apr. and 11 May 1410, Joan (c.1404-24 Nov. 1442), da. of Sir Reynold Braybrooke* (d.1405) of Cooling castle and o. surv. da. and h. of Joan de la Pole (d.1434), suo jure Lady Cobham, 10s. inc. Edward†, 4da. Kntd. 1418; jure uxoris Lord Cobham aft. 13 Jan. 1434. d. 12 Aug 1439.

Biography

History of Parliament Online

References

• From: Edward Hasted, 'Parishes: Cobham', in The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 3 (Canterbury, 1797), pp. 404-442. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol3/pp404-442 [accessed 27 May 2021]. .... She [Joan Cobham] was then the wife of John Harpden, (fn. 10) who, if he was then living, did not possess this or any of her estates after her death, for her only daughter and heir Joane, by her second husband, Sir Gerard Braybrooke above mentioned, then entitled her husband, Sir Thomas Brooke, of Somersetshire, to them, who, though he was in his wife's right baron of Cobham, yet he never had summons to parliament. He died in the 17th year of king Henry VI. having had by her ten sons and four daughters. The family of Brooke was seated at the manor De la Brooke, near Ilchester, in that county, in the reign of king Edward I. (fn. 11) and bore for their arms, Gules, on a cheveron argent, a lion rampant sable, langued and unguled gules, crowned or. Of the surviving sons of Sir Thomas Brooke, Edward was the eldest; Reginald, esq. was of Aspal, in Suffolk; and Hugh was ancestor of the Brookes of Glastonbury abbey and Barrow-grove, in Somersetshire. Sir Edward succeeded his father in title and in his estates at Cobham and elsewhere; he received summons to parliament by the title of Edward Brooke de Cobham, chl. (fn. 12) and was a firm friend to the house of York; (fn. 12) he died possessed of this manor in the 4th year of king Edward IV. His direct descendant, Sir George Brooke, lord Cobham, procured his lands to be disgavelled by the act of the 31st of king Henry VIII. ...