BROOKE FAMILY
William De BROCDied: 1231, Le Brook, Ilchester, Somerset, England
Married: ¿?
Children:
1. Henry De La BROOKEBorn: ABT 1220, Le Brook, Ilchester, Somerset, England / ABT 1264/1268, The Brooke, Near Hehaster, England
Died: AFT 1257Father: William De BROC
Mother: ¿?
Married: Nichola De GONVILLE (b. ABT 1225) ABT 1259, England
Children:
Born: ABT 1260, Le Brook, Ilchester, Somerset, England / ABT 1290, England
Died: 1324, Le Brook, Ilchester, Somerset, EnglandFather: Henry De La BROOKE
Mother: Nichola De GONVILLE
Married: Elizabeth ?
Children:
1. John BROOKE
Born: ABT 1290, Le Brook, Ilchester, Somerset, England / ABT 1316, Doncaster, County York, England
Died: ABT 1347/8, Doncaster, County York, England
Father: Henry De La BROOKE
Mother: Elizabeth ?
Married: Joan (MADSTON) BRADSTONE (b. 1290/1318 - d. 1347) ABT 1319
Children:
Born: ABT 1320, Le Brook, Juxtaivelchester, Somerset, England / ABT 1342, Doncaster, County York, England
Died: 1368, Doncaster, County York, England
Father: John BROOKE
Mother: Joan (MADSTON) BRADSTONE
Married: Constance MARKENFIELD
Children:
1. Thomas BROOKE (Sheriff of Somerset)
Thomas BROOKE (Sheriff of Somerset)
Born: ABT 1356 / BEF 1368, Brooke, Somerset, & Holdrich Devon, England/ Doncaster, County York, England
Died: 23 Jan 1416 / BET Jan 1417/18, Doncaster, County York, England
Notes: High Sheriff of Somerset.
Father: Thomas BROOKE
Mother: Constance MARKENFIELD
Married: Johanna HANAP (b. 1370 - d. 10 Apr 1437) ABT 1390, England
Children:
2. Michael BROOKE
Born: 1391, Brooke, Somerset, & Holdrich Devon, England
Died: 12 Aug 1438/39, Thorncombe, Devon, England
Buried: 1439, Thorncombe, Devon, England
Notes: invested as a Knight between 1416 and 1421. Member of Parliament for Somerset in 1417; from 1421 to 1422 and 1427.
Father: Thomas BROOKE (Sheriff of Somerset)
Mother: Johanna HANAP
Married: Joan BRAYBROOKE (b. AFT 1395 - d. 25 Nov 1442) (dau. of Reginald Braybrooke and Joan De la Pole) ABT 1409/20 Feb 1410, Cooling Castle, Cobham, England
Children:
1. Edward BROOKE (1° B. Cobham)
3. Hugh BROOKE
4. Thomas BROOKE
5. John BROOKE
6. Robert BROOKE
7. Margaret BROOKE
8. Christian BROOKE
9. Peter BROOKE
10. Henry BROOKE
11. Christopher BROOKE (b. ABT 1428)
13. Elizabeth BROOKE
14. Morgan BROOKE
Born: ABT 1418, Somersetshire, England
Father: Thomas BROOKE
Mother: Joan BRAYBROOKE
Married: Margaret ? ABT 1436, Somersetshire, England
Born: 1428
Father: Thomas BROOKE
Mother: Joan BRAYBROOKE
Married: John CARRANT
Born: 1429
Father: Thomas BROOKE
Mother: Joan BRAYBROOKE
Married: John SEYMOUR (St. Maur) 1450
Children:Born: ABT 1414, Aspall-Stoneham, Suffolk, England
Died: 1482
Father: Thomas BROOKE
Mother: Joan BRAYBROOKE
Married: Anne EVERTON
Children:
Born: ABT 1446, Suffolk, England
Father: Reginald BROOKE
Mother: Anne EVERTON
Married: Francis PEYTON 1490, Suffolk, England
Children:
1. Christopher PEYTON (Sir) (m. Joan Mildmay)
2. Margaret PEYTON
Born: ABT 1421, Bristol, Gloucester, England
Father: Thomas BROOKE
Mother: Joan BRAYBROOKE
Married: Petronel ? ABT 1445, Bristol, Gloucester, England
Children:
Born: ABT 1450, Bristol, Gloucester, England
Father: Hugh BROOKE
Mother: Petronel ?
Married: Anne SPERT ABT 1468
Children:
1. John BROOKE
Born: ABT 1448, Bristol, Gloucester, England
Died: 25 Dec 1522
Buried: Redcliffe Church, Gloucester, England
Father: Thomas (Brooks) BROOKE
Mother: Anne SPERT
Married: Joan AMERICK (b. ABT 1452 - d. 29 Sep 1538) (dau. of Richard Americk) BEF 31 Aug 1490
Children:
1. Joan BROOKE
2. Thomas BROOKE
3. Lucia BROOKE
4. Arthur BROOKE
5. David BROOKE of Horton (Sir Knight)
David BROOKE of Horton (Sir Knight)
Born: ABT 1497, Bristol and Horton, Coberley, Gloucestershire, England
Died: 1559
Notes: See his Biography.
Father: John BROOKE
Mother: Joan AMERICK
Married 1: Catherine BRYDGES ABT 1517, Coberley, Gloucestershire, England
Married 2: Margaret BUTLER (B. North of Kirtling)
Born: ABT 1411, Brooke, Somersetshire, England
Died: 6 Jun 1464 / BEF 8 Nov 1464/1469, Cobham, Kent, England
Notes: 6º B. Cobham of Olditch. Succeeded to the title in 1442. Staunch Yorkist. He fought in the Battle of St. Albans on 23 May 1455. He fought in the Battle of Northampton on 10 Jul 1460.
Father: Thomas BROOKE
Mother: Joan BRAYBROOKE
Married: Elizabeth TOUCHET (B. Cobham) BEF 13 Jan 1433, Heleigh, Staffordshire, England / ABT 1447, Heleigh, Staffordshire, England
Children:
3. Mary BROOKE
Born: ABT 1445
Died: ABT 1525
Father: Edward BROOKE (1° B. Cobham)
Mother: Elizabeth TOUCHET (B. Cobham)
Married: Robert TANFIELD of Gayton (Esq.) (b. ABT 1441) (son of Robert Tanfield of Gayton and Dau. Lovell)
Children:
1. Robert TANFIELD (b. ABT 1461) (m. Catherine Neville)
Born: ABT 1451, Cobham, Kent, England
Father: Edward BROOKE (1° B. Cobham)
Mother: Elizabeth TOUCHET (B. Cobham)
Married: Nicholas ASSHETON ABT 1470, Cobham, Kent, England
Born: 10 Dec 1447, Cowling, Kent, England
Died: 9 Mar 1511/12
Buried: 9 Mar 1511, Colegiate Church, Cobham, Kent, England
Notes: 7th Ld Cobham. Of Weycroft, Devon and Cooling, Kent. Succeeded to the title on 19 Aug 1472. From 1491 to 1492 he was in an expedition to Flanders with King Henry VII. He fought in the Cornish insurrection at Blackheath on 24 Jun 1497, with Lord Abergavenny. There exists reasonably strong evidence of a special relationship between Thomas Phelips and the Brooke-Cobham family, seated at Cooling, Kent. The Brooke family has West Country origins and, if Thomas Phelips had been the administator or surveyor of at least some of the Booke-Cobham estates, his migration from Kent to Somerset is easily explained. Such a relationship would also explain the presence of Brooke estate documents among the Phelips family papers in the Somerset County Record Office. Further, such an influencial connection, could explain his rise in rank form yeoman in 1460 to gentleman by 1466 and his appointment to the office of Escheator fro Somerset & Dorset in 1471 and 1478. [Ref.: Ibid, p. 3-4}. Further evidence of a relationship derives from a lease extant in the Kent County Record Office in which John, Lord Cobham leased his manor of Brooke Montacute to "Jane Phillip , widow." [ Ref.: Ibid p. 3, citing Kent County Record Office ref. U601 T202].
Father: Edward BROOKE (1° B. Cobham)
Mother: Elizabeth TOUCHET (B. Cobham)
Married 1: Margaret NEVILLE (B. Cobham)
Children:
1. Thomas BROOKE (3° B. Cobham)
2. Mary BROOKE
4. Richard BROOKE
5. Alelye BROOKE
6. Edward BROOKE
7. Peter BROOKE
8. Faith BROOKE
10. Dorothy BROOKE
Married 2: Eleanor AUSTELL (B. Cobham) AFT Sep 1506
Father: John BROOKE (2° B. Cobham)
Mother: Margaret NEVILLE (B. Cobham)
Married: Robert BLAGGE 1506
Children:
1. George BLAGGE (Sir) (b. 1512)
Father: John BROOKE (2° B. Cobham)
Mother: Margaret NEVILLE (B. Cobham)
Married: Robert ISAACK
Notes: Left an annuity in his brother's (Lord Cobham) will
Father: John BROOKE (2° B. Cobham)
Mother: Margaret NEVILLE (B. Cobham)
Born: ABT 1469, Cobham, Kent, England
Father: John BROOKE (2° B. Cobham)
Mother: Margaret NEVILLE (B. Cobham)
Married: Elizabeth PEACHE (sister and heiress of Sir John Peche) (w. of John Hart of the Middle Temple) ABT 1499
Children:
1. John BROOKE (b. 1497)
3. Mary BROOKE (b. ABT 1502, Cobham, Kent, England)
4. Faith BROOKE (b. ABT 1504, Cobham, Kent, England)
5. Dorothy BROOKE (b. ABT 1506, Cobham, Kent, England)
Born: ABT 1500, Cobham, Kent, England
Father: George BROOKE
Mother: Elizabeth PEACHE
Married: Son ROYDON ABT 1518
Born: ABT 1513, Denton, Kent, England
Died: 1 Jun 1612
Father: George BROOKE
Mother: Elizabeth PEACHE
Born: ABT 1465 / 1467, Cowling, Kent, England
Died: 19 Jul 1529
Buried: 19 Jul 1529, Cobham, Kent, England
Notes: 8° Baron Cobham. Fought in the Siege of Tournay in 1513. He fought in the Battle of the Spurs on 18 Aug 1513. He was invested as a Knight Banneret in 1514. He succeeded to the title on 23 Nov 1514. In 1520 he was at the Field of the Cloth of Gold. In 1521 he was one of the twelve Barons for the trial of the Duke of Buckingham.
Father: John BROOKE (2° B. Cobham)
Mother: Margaret NEVILLE (B. Cobham)
Married 1: Dorothy HEYDON (B. Cobham) ABT 1494
Children:
1. Son BROOKE
3. George BROOKE (4° B. Cobham)
6. William BROOKE
7. John BROOKE
8. Fayth BROOKE
10. Son BROOKE
11. Son BROOKE
12. Son BROOKE
13. Son BROOKE
Married 2: Dorothy SOUTHWELL (B. Cobham)
Married 3: Elizabeth HART (B. Cobham) (dau. of John Hart and Elizabeth Peache) (d. AFT 1551)
Born: 1520
Father: Thomas BROOKE (3° B. Cobham)
Mother: Dorothy HEYDON (B. Cobham)
Married: William CALVERLEY (son of Walter Calverley and Anne Danby)
Children:
1. Henry CALVERLEY
Born: 1503
Died: AFT 1550 / ABT Aug 1560
Buried: Tower of London
Notes: early in her marriage with Thomas Wyatt, marital difficulties arose. He repudiated her as an adulteress, although there is no record linking her with any specific man. For fifteen years or so, he continued to support her, but then refused to do so any longer and sent her to live with her brother, Lord Cobham. This was around 1537, the year in which Lord Cobham attempted to force Wyatt to continue his support. He refused. It wasn't until 1541, when Wyatt was arrested and his properties confiscated, that the Brooke family was able to force a reconciliation as a condition for Wyatt’s pardon. They were forced by Henry VIII to reconcile. In early 1542, more than a year before Wyatt’s death, Lady Wyatt's name crops up in Spanish dispatches as one of three ladies in whom Henry VIII was said to be interested as a possible sixth wife. The Spanish Ambassador wrote that the lady for whom the King “showed the greatest regard was a sister of Lord Cobham, whom Wyatt, some time ago, divorced for adultery. She is a pretty young creature, with wit enough to do as badly as the others if she were to try”. Some authors believe the Ambassador was mistaken in his identification. Another Elizabeth Brooke, Lord Cobham’s daughter, was definitely at court the following year. She would have been nearly sixteen in Jan 1542 and in later years was accounted one of the most beautiful women of her time. Elizabeth Brooke’s second husband, Sir Edward Warner, Lord Lieutenant of the Tower, lived through the political and religious upheavals of the reigns of Henry VIII, Mary I, Edward VI and died in the reign of Elizabeth I. He was a court official whose fortunes changed depending on the faction that held power at the time. He was imprisoned in the tower during Henry VIII’s reign. In 1549 Warner acted as Marshall of the Field during the suppression of the peasant’s revolt in Norfolk that was known as Kett’s Rebellion. In 1554 he was implicated in the rebellion of his step son, Sir Thomas Wyatt. Eventually, however, the family fortunes were restored and under Elizabeth Tudor, Warner reclaimed to his post at the Tower of London. In 1561 was an inquisitor of Catherine Grey as Lieutenant of the Tower. Elizabeth died in the Tower in Aug 1560 and was buried within its precincts.
Father: Thomas BROOKE (3° B. Cobham)
Mother: Dorothy HEYDON (B. Cobham)
Married 1: Thomas "The Elder" WYATT (Sir) 1520 Divorced
Children:
1. Thomas "The Younger" WYATT (Sir)
2. Anne WYATT
Married 2: Edward WARNER (Sir) (d. 1565)
Children:
3. Edward WARNER
Father: Thomas BROOKE (3° B. Cobham)
Mother: Dorothy HEYDON (B. Cobham)
Married: John FOGGE (Sir)
Father: Thomas BROOKE (3° B. Cobham)
Mother: Dorothy HEYDON (B. Cobham)
Married: William OKENDON
Died: 1547
Notes: a servant of Archibishop Cranmer's and married Cranmer's niece, whose second (or third?) husband was Anthony Vaughan. Left £300 in his father's will. Executor of his father's will with Chris Hales, "attorney general to the King's Grace" and with his father's third wife, Elizabeth Hart.
Father: Thomas BROOKE (3° B. Cobham)
Mother: Dorothy HEYDON (B. Cobham)
Married: Susan CRANMER CLARKE
Children:
1. Edward BROOKE
Father: Thomas BROOKE
Mother: Susan CRANMER CLARKE
Married: Abell FOGG
Children:
Died: 1563
Notes: See his Biography.
Father: Cranmer BROOKE de Ashford
Mother: Abell FOGG
Notes: These family relationships are also confirmed in a pedigree on page 16 in Harleian Society's The Visitation of Kent, 1619. The pedigree includes the Cobham coat of arms ('Gules, on a chevron argent a lion rampant sable, ducally crowned or') and shows 'Thomas Brooke, fil 2dus Tho. fil. Joh'is Baronis de Cobham' married to 'Susanna, filia ... Cramner [sic], vidua Glearke'. According to the pedigree, Thomas Brooke and Susan Cramner [sic] had two sons -- 'Cramner [sic] Brooke de Ashford', who married 'Abell filia Joh'is Fogg Militis', and 'Edwardus Brooke'. The pedigree shows no descendants of 'Edwardus Brooke'. However, it shows a son of Cranmer Brooke and his wife Abell Fogg: 'Willielmus Brooke de Hartlipp, Ar. hodiernus escanter comit' Cantii.', who married 'Jana filia et cohaeres Joh'is Tenacre de Boughton subtus de Blene'. They had a daughter 'Maria', with whom the pedigree ends in the year 1619. At the end of the pedigree are the words 'Ex fidei confessione istius W. Brooke', indicating that it was William Brooke, son of Cranmer Brooke, who provided the heralds with the information contained in this pedigree.
Father: Cranmer BROOKE de Ashford
Mother: Abell FOGG
Married: Jane TENACRE (dau. and coherir of John Tenacre de Boughton)
Children:
1. Maria BROOKE (d. 1619)
Born: ABT 1497, Cowling, Kent, England
Died: 29 Sep 1558, Cobham Hall, Cobham, Kent, England
Notes: See his Biography.
Father: Thomas BROOKE (3° B. Cobham)
Mother: Dorothy HEYDON (B. Cobham)
Married: Anne BRAY (B. Cobham) ABT 1517
Children:
1. Elizabeth BROOKE (M. Northampton)
2. William BROOKE (5° B. Cobham)
7. Mary BROOKE (B. Abergavenny)
8. Dorothy BROOKE (b. 1518)
9. Anne BROOKE
10. John BROOKE (b. 1535 - d. 1594)
11. Edmund BROOKE (b. 1540)
Elizabeth BROOKE (M. Northampton)
Born: 25 Jun 1526
Died: 2 Apr 1565
Notes: See her Biography.
Father: George BROOKE (4° B. Cobham)
Mother: Anne BRAY (B. Cobham)
Married: William PARR (1° M. Northampton) Jan 1547/8, England
Born: ABT 1527, Cobham, Kent, England
Notes: in late 1545, her mother left her in the care of a wet nurse at Ospring and journeyed to Calais to join her father, living there in the Lord Deputy's house for the next five years. Unmarried and living at Cobham Hall in 1559 when she served as chief mourner at 4 Oct funeral of her sister-in-law, Dorothy Neville, Lady Cobham. When, by the early 1590s, her husband fled to the King of Spain, Catherine continued to receive £30/year from Lord Cobham. BEF 30 Apr 1604, she remarried, taking as her second husband a Bellamy who died before 13 Feb 1613/4, when her daughter Frances referred to her as a widow in her will. David McKeen in "A Memory of Honour: the life of William Brooke, Lord Cobham", theorizes that she was the Catherine Bellamy who made her will at Acton on 26 Oct 1617 and was buried there on 31 Oct 1617.
Father: George BROOKE (4° B. Cobham)
Mother: Anne BRAY (B. Cobham)
Married 1: John JERNINGHAM
Children:
3. Elizabeth JERNINGHAM
4. Henry JERNINGHAM (d. young)
5. Margaret JERNINGHAM
Married 2: Son BELLAMY (d. BEF 13 Feb 1613/4) AFT 1592
Born: 1533
Died: 1578
Notes: He had a younger brother also called Thomas so he was sometimes referred to as "Thomas, the elder". Implicated with his father and brothers in Wyatt`s rebellion. Feb 19th 1554, Thomas Cobham and little Edward Wyatt were sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered. Thomas' sentence was commuted to imprisonment. Thomas was sent to parliament to represent Rochester in 1559. Thomas was involved in the Ridolfi plot in 1571.
Father: George BROOKE (4° B. Cobham)
Mother: Anne BRAY (B. Cobham)
Born: 1526 / 5 Feb 1538, Cobham, Kent, England
Died: 1565 / 13 Jan 1592, Heckington, Lincolnshire, England
Father: George BROOKE (4° B. Cobham)
Mother: Anne BRAY (B. Cobham)
¿Married 1: Mary PARR?
Married 2: Anne SUTTON ABT 1566
Children:
2. Anne BROOKE
3. Maximilian BROOKE (b. ABT 1573)
Buried: 28 Sep 1613, Stockeston, Leicestershire, England
Notes: married to Walter Calverley, whose wardship and marriage were controlled by Philippa’s relatives. The family seat was Calverley Hall in Yorkshire. Calverley was a gambler and a drunkard, deeply in debt by 23 Apr 1605 when, in a drunken rage (or a fit of insane jealousy over a Vavasour of Weston), he killed his two oldest sons with a knife and then stabbed Philippa. Fortunately her steel corset deflected the blow. Leaving her for dead, he rode toward Norton, where the youngest boy lodged with his wet nurse, intending to kill him, too, but he was pursued and captured when his horse stumbled and threw him. The next day, in his examination before justices of the peace, he claimed that his wife had been unfaithful to him, that the children were not his, and that he had been in danger “sundry times” of being murdered by Philippa. It is obvious he was not believed. He was pressed to death at York Castle for his crimes. The tragedy inspired a ballad, two tracts, and two plays, The Yorkshire Tragedy (1608) and The Miseries of Enforced Marriage (1607). Calverley Hall is supposed to have a blood stain on the floor that cannot be cleaned and Walter is also said to haunt the area, galloping about on a headless horse. Philippa later married Sir Thomas Burton.Father: Henry BROOKE (Sir)
Mother: Anne SUTTON
Married 1: Walter CALVERLEY (b. 1575 - d. 5 Aug 1605)Children:
1. William CALVERLEY (b. 1601 - d. 23 Apr 1605)2. Walter CALVERLEY (b. 1603 - d. 23 Apr 1605)
3. Henry CALVERLEY (b. 1605)
Married 2: Thomas BURTON of Stockerston (d. Aug 1655) (son of John Burton and Anne Digby)
Children:
4. Elizabeth BURTON (m. Hugh Burnaby)5. Anne BURTON (m. Sir Abel Barker, 1º Bt.)
Father: Henry BROOKE (Sir)
Mother: Anne SUTTON
Married: Edward HERON
Children:
1. Theodosia HERON (b. 1603 - d. AFT 1674) (m. Francis Molyneux of Teversall, 2° Bt.)Born: ABT 1580, Cobham, Kent, England
Buried: 30 Nov 1658, Brayton, Yorkshire, England
Father: Henry BROOKE (Sir)Mother: Anne SUTTON
Married: Anne REMINGTON ABT 1619Children:
1. Catherine BROOKE2. Humphrey BROOKE
3. Anne BROOKE
4. Frances BROOKE
5. Gabriel BROOKE
6. Alice BROOKE
Died: ABT May 1660
Buried: 20 May 1660, Wakerley, Northamptonshire, England
Notes: invested as a Knight in Jan 1611/2. Member of Parliament for Gatton in 1614. Member of Parliament for Oxford Borough from 1621 to 1622. Member of Parliament for Great Bedwin in 1625. Member of Parliament for Appleby between 1640 and 1643. He was created 1st Baron Cobham on 3 Jan 1644/5. He lived at Heckington, Lincolnshire, England. Died circa May 1660, without surviving issue. On his death, his title became extinct.
Father: Henry BROOKE (Sir)Mother: Anne SUTTON
Married 1: Anne LISTER BEF 21 Jan 1608/9
Married 2: Frances BAMFIELD (dau. of Sir William Bamfield) BEF Oct 1636
Born: ABT 1525, Cobham, Kent, England
Died: AFT 1535, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, England
Father: George BROOKE (4° B. Cobham)
Mother: Anne BRAY (B. Cobham)
Married: George NEVILLE (3° B. Abergavenny) ABT 1534, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales
Born: ABT 1526 / 1 Nov 1527, Cobham, Kent, England
Died: 6 Mar 1596/7
Buried: 5 Apr 1597, Cobham, Kent, England
Notes: See his Biography.
Father: George BROOKE (4° B. Cobham)
Mother: Anne BRAY (B. Cobham)
Married 1: Dorothy NEVILLE 4 Jun 1535 / 1550, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales
Children:
1. Dorothy BROOKE (Maid of Honour)
Married 2: Frances NEWTON (B. Cobham) (b. 1539 - d. 17 Oct 1592) (dau. of Sir John Newton of Hawtrey and Margaret Poyntz) 25 Feb 1559/60, Westminster Palace, Westminster, Middlesex, England
Children:
4. Frances BROOKE (B. Stourton of Stourton)
5. Elizabeth BROOKE (C. Salisbury)
6. Henry BROOKE (6° B. Cobham)
7. William BROOKE (b. 11 Dec 1565)
Dorothy BROOKE (Maid of Honour)
Died: 1624
Buried: Welford Church, near Hamstead Marshall, Berkshire, England
Notes: Some sources, as Kate Emerson, says that Dorothy Brooke "of Bristol" was not one of the daughters of Lord Cobham, although she was a maid of honor to Queen Elizabeth, which argues for some connection to those at court. She is listed as being in the Queen's service in 1565-8. She married Thomas Parry of Hampstead Marshall, Berkshire. From 1601-1605, Parry was the English ambassador in France. In Jul 1610, he was named as custodian of Arabella Stuart at Lambeth, following her unsanctioned marriage to William Seymour. What role Dorothy played in these assignments is unknown, but she outlived her husband by eight years and was buried in Welford Church, Berkshire.
Father: William BROOKE (5° B. Cobham)
Mother: Dorothy NEVILLE
¿Married: Robert HONYWOOD (Esq.) 3 Jul 1569, St. Gregory by St. Paul, London, Middlesex, England?
Married: Thomas PARRY (Sir) (b. 1544 - d. 30 May 1616) (son of Sir Thomas Parry and Anne Reade)
Born: ABT 1555
Father: William BROOKE (5° B. Cobham)
Mother: Dorothy NEVILLE
Married 1: Thomas COPPINGER (d. 21 Mar 1580)
Children:
1. William COPPINGER
2. Francis COPPINGER (Sir Knight) (b. ABT 1585, St. Giles in the Fields, Westminster, Middlesex, England - d. AFT 15 Oct 1626) (m. Frances Borough)
Married 2: Edward BECHER 5 Oct 1580
Children:
3. Carew BECHER
4. Francis BECHER
5. Edward BECHER
Born: 4 Dec 1560, Cobham, Kent, England
Christened: 6 Dec 1560, Westminster Palace, Westminster, Middlesex, England
Died: Napoles, Italy
Buried: Napoles, Italy
Notes: Unmarried.
Father: William BROOKE (5° B. Cobham)
Mother: Frances NEWTON (B. Cobham)
Frances BROOKE (B. Stourton of Stourton)
Born: 1 Jan 1562, Cobham, Kent, England
Notes: Twin with Elizabeth.
Father: William BROOKE (5° B. Cobham)
Mother: Frances NEWTON (B. Cobham)
Married 1: John STOURTON (9º B. Stourton of Stourton) ABT 1580
Married 2: Edward MOORE
Elizabeth BROOKE (C. Salisbury)
Born: 1 Jan 1562, Cobham, Kent, England Died: 24 Jun 1596/7 Buried: Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England Notes: Twin with Frances. |
Elizabeth Brooke, Countess of Salisbury, by George Gower |
Father: William BROOKE (5° B. Cobham)
Mother: Frances NEWTON (B. Cobham)
Married: Robert CECIL (1° E. Salisbury) 31 Aug 1589
Children:
1. Frances CECIL (C. Cumberland)
2. Catherine CECIL
3. William CECIL (2º E. Salisbury)
Born: 22 Nov 1564, Cobham Hall, Cobham, Kent, England Died: 24 Jan 1618/9, Tower of London, London, Middlesex, England Notes: Knight of the Garter. 8th Lord Cobham. Member of Parliament for Kent from 1588 to 1589. Member of Parliament for Hedon, East Riding of Yorkshire in 1593. Warden of the Cinque Ports between 1597 and Jul 1603. He was invested as a Knight of the Order of the Bath. Implicated together with his brother George Brooke; Markham; Watson and Sir Walter Raleigh in the Bye Plot, probably in an attempt to obtain the Cobham estates for the Duke of Lennox. Joined in the plot in support of Lady Arabella Stuart's claim to the throne, known as "the Treason of Maine". Condemned to death, his achievements as K.G. were taken down and kicked out of the west doors of St. George's Chapel, 16 Feb 1604. He was not executed but remained a prisoner in the Tower until his death. He has an extensive biographical entry in the Dictionary of National Biography. |
Henry Brooke, Baron Cobham by circle of Paul Van Somer |
Father: William BROOKE (5° B. Cobham)
Mother: Frances NEWTON (B. Cobham)
Married: Frances HOWARD (C. Kildare/B. Cobham) contract 27 May 1601
Born: ABT 1565
Died: 1621
Notes: Her husband, Sir Thomas Sands or Sondes, became convinced that her daughter Frances was not his child, and levied a fine of his lands, thus effectively depriving Margaret of her jointure, and died a few months later. His brother and heir, Sir Michael Sondes, honoured Margaret's jointure, but the Sondes family never acknowledged her daughter Frances; and Margaret and Frances returned to Cobham Hall. Before he died in 1597, William Brooke made his son Henry promise to care for his daughter Margaret, and she and her daughter remained at Cobham Hall on their own after his death. At an unknown date, Margaret went mad, and on 4 Nov 1602, it was reported that Doctor John Dee had been called in and 'hath delivered the Lady Sondes of a devil or of some other strange possession'. Nothing further is known of her circumstances, apart from the fact that 'the mad Lady Sondes' died in 1621, aged fifty-seven. Her daughter Frances had two daughters by Sir John Leveson, Christian and Frances.
Father: William BROOKE (5° B. Cobham)
Mother: Frances NEWTON (B. Cobham)
Married: Thomas SANDS (Sir Knight) 1584
Children:
1. Frances SANDS (m. Sir John Levenson)
Born: 17 Apr 1568/31 Jul 1569, Cobham, Kent, England
Died: 5 Dec 1603, Winchester, Hampshire, England
Buried: 5 Dec 1603, Winchester Cathedral, Hampshire, England
Notes: matriculated at King's College, Cambridge University, in 1580 and graduated in 1586 with a Master of Arts (M.A.). He held the office of Prebendary of York. In 1599, he married Elizabeth Borough. His nephew Francis Coppinger was betrothed to his new sister-in-law, Frances Borough. George seduced and deserted Frances, leaving her pregnant. Implicated together with his brother Henry, Lord Cobham; Markham; Watson and Sir Walter Raleigh in the Bye Plot, he was arrested in Jul 1603 and sent to the Tower. In 1604 he was attainted. Executed. He has an extensive biographical entry in the Dictionary of National Biography.
Father: William BROOKE (5° B. Cobham)
Mother: Frances NEWTON (B. Cobham)
Married: Elizabeth BOROUGH
Children:
1. William BROOKE (7° B. Cobham)
2. Frances BROOKE (b. ABT 1603, Cobham, Kent, England)
3. Elizabeth BROOKE (b. ABT 1605, Cobham, Kent, England)
Associated with: Frances BOROUGH
Born: 1597/1598, Cowling, Kent, England
Christened: 1 Dec 1601, Surrey, England
Died: 20 Sep 1643, Newbury, Berkshire, England
Notes: in 1609 he was restored in blood but not to the barony of Cobham. He succeeded to the title in 1619, although the barony was still subject to the attainder of his uncle. He was invested as a Knight, Order of the Bath on 1 Feb 1625/6. Member of Parliament for Rochester from 1628 to 1629. Fought in the Battle of Newbury on 20 Sep 1643 and died from wounds received in action. On his death, the barony of Cobham (already under attainder) fell into abeyance between his four daugthers and coheirs.
Father: George BROOKE
Mother: Elizabeth BOROUGH
Married 1: Pembroke LENNARD
Children:
Married 2: Penelope HILL (b. ABT 1602, Hillsborough, Down, Ireland - bur. 12 Jul 1694, Chenies, Buckinghamshire, England) (dau. of Moyses Hill and Alice MacDonnell)
Children:
2. Hill BROOKE
Born: ABT 1621, Surrey, England
Died 10 Jun 1683
Father: William BROOKE (7° B. Cobham)
Mother: Pembroke LENNARD
Married: Matthew THOMLINSON ABT 1640
Born: ABT 1638, Cobham & Cowling Park, Kent, England
Died: 11 May 1704
Buried: 14 May 1704
Father: William BROOKE (7° B. Cobham)
Mother: Penelope HILL
Married 1: William BOOTHBY (Sir) 6 Apr 1657
Married 2: Son WILMOT
Married 3: Edward RUFFEL
Born: ABT 1641, Bridgnorth, Shropshire, England
Died: 1690
Buried: 15 May 1690, Twickenham, Middlesex, England
Father: William BROOKE (7° B. Cobham)
Mother: Penelope HILL
Married 1: Thomas WHITMORE (Sir Knight) ABT 1664
Children:
1. Elizabeth WHITMORE
2. Frances WHITMORE
3. Dorothy WHITMORE
Married 2: Matthew HARVEY ABT 1684
Born: 1647, Cowling, Kent, England
Died: 6 Jan 1666
Buried: 9 Jan 1666/1667, St. Margaret, Westminster, Middlesex, England
Father: William BROOKE (7° B. Cobham)
Mother: Penelope HILL
Married 1: John DENHAM (Sir) 25 May 1665
Married 2: JAMES II STUART (King of England)
Died: AFT 1569
Father: George BROOKE (4° B. Cobham)
Mother: Anne BRAY (B. Cobham)
Married: Christina DUKE BEF 1558
Children:
Died: 1651
Notes: A Royalist supporter who had the Barony of Cobham conferred upon him by Charles I in 1645. He died without issue.
Father: George BROOKE
Mother: Christina DUKE
Born: ABT 1544
Married: Henry HUNGERFORD