Bernard Brocas 1354-1400

After 1330 Bernard Brocas and [his mother] Agnes Vavasour [aged 2] were married. They were subsequently divorced.

Around 1354 Bernard Brocas was born to Bernard Brocas [aged 24] and Agnes Vavasour [aged 26].

On 3rd April 1367 the forces of Peter "Cruel" I King Castile [aged 32] commanded by Edward "Black Prince" [aged 36] defeated the army of Henry "Fratricide" II King Castile [aged 33] at the Battle of Nájera at Nájera [Map]. The English forces included John of Gaunt 1st Duke Lancaster [aged 27], William Scrope, Peter Courtenay [aged 21], John Devereux 1st Baron Devereux [aged 30], John Savile of Shelley and Golcar [aged 42], Bernard Brocas [aged 37] and Thomas Banastre [aged 33].

The forces of Henry "Fratricide" II King Castile included Bertrand Geusclin [aged 47]. The battle achieved little since Bertrand Geusclin escaped.

John Ferrers 4th Baron Ferrers of Chartley [aged 36] was killed. His son Robert [aged 9] succeeded 5th Baron Ferrers of Chartley. Margaret Despencer Baroness Ferrers of Chartley by marriage Baroness Ferrers of Chartley.

Edward "Black Prince" thereafter returned home, taking Peter's daughters Constance [aged 13] and Isabella [aged 12] as hostages to ensure Peter would pay the money owed to Edward. Constance married John of Gaunt 1st Duke Lancaster, Isabella married Edmund of Langley 1st Duke of York [aged 25].

Around 1379 [his son] William Brocas was born to Bernard Brocas [aged 25] and [his future wife] Joan Middleton or Banbury. He married in or before 1417 Joan Sandes.

Before 1380 Bernard Brocas [aged 25] and Joan Middleton or Banbury were married.

Before 1380 Bernard Brocas [aged 49] and [his step-mother] Mary des Roches [aged 44] were married.

Before 1395 Bernard Brocas [aged 64] and [his step-mother] Katharine de la Plaunche [aged 54] were married.

On 20th September 1395 Bernard Brocas [aged 65] died. He was buried at the Chapel of St Edmund, Westminster Abbey [Map] in Westminster Abbey.

On 17th December 1399 the conspirators met at Abbey House Westminster Abbey [Map] including Thomas Blount [aged 47], Thomas Despencer 1st Earl Gloucester [aged 26], Thomas Holland 1st Duke Surrey [aged 25], John Holland 1st Duke Exeter [aged 47], Ralph Lumley 1st Baron Lumley [aged 39], John Montagu 3rd Earl Salisbury [aged 49], Edward 2nd Duke of York 1st Duke Albemarle [aged 26], Bernard Brocas [aged 45]. They plotted to capture King Henry IV of England [aged 32] at a Tournament in Windsor, Berkshire [Map] on the Feast of Epiphany hence the Epiphany Rising.

On 7th January 1400 at Cirencester, Gloucestershire [Map] Ralph Lumley 1st Baron Lumley [aged 40] was beheaded by the townspeople following an unsuccessful attempt to seize the town. Baron Lumley forfeit.

Thomas Holland 1st Duke Surrey [aged 26] was beheaded. He had to forfeit the honours and estates he had gained after the arrests of Gloucester and Arundel: Duke Surrey extinct. He retained those he had received before: His brother Edmund [aged 16] succeeded 4th Earl Kent, 3rd Baron Holand, 8th Baron Wake of Liddell. He was buried, or re-buried, at his foundation Mount Grace Priory, North Yorkshire [Map].

John Montagu 3rd Earl Salisbury [aged 50] was captured, tried and beheaded. Earl Salisbury, Baron Montagu, Baron Montagu, Baron Monthermer forfeit.

Bernard Brocas [aged 46] was captured.

On 4th February 1400 Bernard Brocas [aged 46] was tried, and condemned to death, by Thomas Fitzalan 10th Earl of Surrey 5th or 12th Earl of Arundel [aged 18] at Tower of London [Map] for his role in the Epiphany Rising having been captured in Cirencester, Gloucestershire [Map].

On 5th February 1400 Bernard Brocas was beheaded at Tyburn [Map]. He was buried at Greyfriars Church Farringdon Within [Map].

Annals of Kings Richard II and Henry IV. Afterwards, in London, the clerics Maudelyn and William Ferby were condemned. They ended their lives by being drawn, hanged, and beheaded. Bernard Brocas [aged 46] and John Schevele, knights, and several others whose names we do not have, suffered a similar fate of death. The Bishop of Carlisle, accused of having given consent and counsel to the traitors, when he did not know how to answer, was condemned to death. Nevertheless, by the king’s mercy, he was kept alive in the Tower. The Abbot of Westminster, and Roger Walden, who had formerly ascended the throne of Canterbury, in what manner God knows, were, after questioning and answer, set free.

Expost Londoniis damnati sunt clerici, Magdelene et Willelmus Ferby, qui tractione et suspensione, atque capitis detruncatione, vitam finierunt. Bernardus Brocas et Johannes Schevele, milites, et plures alii, quorum nomina non tenemus, habuerunt similem mortis sortem. Episcopus Carleolensis, impetitus de consensu et consilio perlato proditoribus, dum respondere nescit, ad mortem damnatus est; sed tamen, Regis misericordia, in Turri vivus servabatur. Abbas Westmonasterii, et Rogerus Walden, qui dudum ascenderat thronum Cantuariensem, qualiter Deus novit, post interrogationem et responsionem, liberi dimittuntur.

In 1429 [his former wife] Joan Middleton or Banbury died.

Royal Ancestors of Bernard Brocas 1354-1400

Kings Wessex: Great x 15 Grand Son of King Edward "Elder" of the Anglo Saxons

Kings England: Great x 9 Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Kings France: Great x 13 Grand Son of Hugh I King of the Franks

Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 17 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine

Ancestors of Bernard Brocas 1354-1400

Grandfather: John Brocas of Clewer in Berkshire

Father: Bernard Brocas

Bernard Brocas 9 x Great Grandson of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Vavasour

Great x 3 Grandfather: John Vavasour

Great x 2 Grandfather: William Vavasour 1st Baron Vavasour

Great x 1 Grandfather: Henry Vavasour

Grandfather: Henry Vavasour 7 x Great Grandson of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 4 Grandfather: William Mowbray 6th Baron Thirsk

Great x 3 Grandfather: William Mowbray 4 x Great Grandson of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Avice D'Aubigny Baroness Okehampton Baroness Mowbray 3 x Great Granddaughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 2 Grandfather: William Mowbray 5 x Great Grandson of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 1 Grandmother: Constance Mowbray 6 x Great Granddaughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Mother: Agnes Vavasour 8 x Great Granddaughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England