Around 1536 William Brooke 10th Baron Cobham (age 8) educated at King's School.

Around 1540 William Brooke 10th Baron Cobham (age 12) educated at Queen's College, Cambridge University [Map].

Around 1542 William Brooke 10th Baron Cobham (age 14) visited at Padua.

Around 1548 William Brooke 10th Baron Cobham (age 20) served in at France.

In 1549 William Brooke 10th Baron Cobham (age 21) accompanied Paget's embassy at Brussels [Map].

After 1553 William Brooke 10th Baron Cobham (age 25) separated [his wife] Dorothy Neville Baroness Cobham (age 28).

In 1559 William Brooke 10th Baron Cobham (age 31) entertained Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland (age 25) at Cobham Hall, Kent [Map].

Henry Machyn's Diary. 17 Jul 1559. The xvij day of July the Quen('s) (age 25) grace removyd from Grenwyche [Map] of her prograsse unto Darford [Map] in Kent; so the next day removyd unto Cobham [Map], my lord Cobham('s) (age 31) plasse, and ther her grace had grett chere.

Henry Machyn's Diary. 08 Sep 1559. The viij day of September at after-none [was] the obseque of Henry the Frenche kyng, the herse garnyshed with grett skochyons of armes bosted [Note. Possibly embossed] with grett crownes, and all under ther fett [feet] with blake, and a grett palle of cloth of gold, and ys helmett and mantyll of cloth of gold and cott armur, targett and sworde, and crest, and angyd [hanged] all the quer [choir] with blake and armes, and my lord tresorer (age 76) the cheyff [mourner], and next my lord chamburlen, my lord of Burgany, my lord of Hunsdon (age 33), and my lord Cobam (age 31), my lord Dacurs of the Sowth, and my lord Pallett, ser Recherd Sakefeld (age 52), and ser Edward Warner (age 48), and mony mo morners all in blake; and contenent songe durge, and a xiiij [14] haroldes of armes in ther cott armur afor the lordes, and after to the bysshope('s) palles to drynke.

Henry Machyn's Diary. 25 Sep 1559. The xxv day of September ded my yonge [his former wife] lade Cobham (deceased) in Kent, the wyff of lord Cobham (age 31), and the [lord] warden of the Synke Porttes in Kentt.

Henry Machyn's Diary. 04 Oct 1559. The iiij day of October whent to here from Cobbam hall my yonge [his former wife] lade Cobbam (deceased), the wyff of my lord Cobbam (age 31), latte mad lord Warden of the v portes, with prestes and clarkes syngyng, and ij haroldes of armes, master Clarenshux (age 49) and , with lx baners of armes of hys and hers petegree; one was a grett baner of ys harmes and hers; and mony morners in blake a C [100], and a lx [60] women in rosett cassokes of brod cloth, be-syd men in mantyll frys-gownes, and the women had nuw raylles; and ther was a goodly hers [hearse] with-owtt wax, and garnyshed with grett baners and velvett, and xx [20] dosen penselles, and vij dosen skochyons of armes; and the chyrche and the plasse hangyd with blake and armes, and a bony .. the velvett a goodly bordur mad and gyldyd, and with ther armes; and so the dene of Rochastur and all the colege both prest and clarke dyd syng, and the qweresters; and Torner the precher dyd pryche; and after all done, they whent to the plasse to dener, for ther was a gret dener, and ther was a ij M. pepull that had ij d. apesse, and after dener pore pepull had boyth mett and drynke; all thys done in Kent.

Note. P. 213. Funeral of lady Cobham. Dorothy, daughter of George lord Bergavenny, by Mary, daughter of Edward duke of Buckingham. This funeral is recorded in the College of Arms, I. 9, f. 161b, and I. 13, f. 14.