Cobham, Kent is in Kent.
Around 1220 John Cobham was born at Cobham, Kent.
In 1237 Reginald Cobham was born to John Cobham [aged 17] and Joan Neville at Cobham, Kent. He married 1284 Joan Devereux and had issue.
On 25th December 1240 John Cobham was born to John Cobham [aged 20] and Maude Joan Fitzbenedict at Cobham, Kent. He married Joan Septvans and had issue.
Around 1242 Henry Cobham was born to John Cobham [aged 22] and Maude Joan Fitzbenedict at Cobham, Kent. He married Joan Penchester and had issue.
In 1252 John Cobham [aged 32] died at Cobham, Kent.
Around 1276 Ralph Cobham was born to John Cobham [aged 35] and Joan Septvans at Cobham, Kent. He married before 5th February 1326 Mary Brewes Countess Norfolk and had issue.
Before 1285 John Cobham 2nd Baron Cobham was born to Henry Cobham 1st Baron Cobham [aged 24] and Maud Moreville [aged 20] at Cobham, Kent. He married 1. Agnes Stone Baroness Cobham 2. Joan Beauchamp, daughter of John Beauchamp 1st Baron Beauchamp Somerset and Joan Cheduit Baroness Beauchamp Somerset, and had issue.
In March 1300 John Cobham [aged 59] died at Cobham, Kent.
Around 1321 John Cobham 3rd Baron Cobham was born to John Cobham 2nd Baron Cobham [aged 36] and Joan Beauchamp [aged 16] at Cobham, Kent. He married 1332 his fifth cousin once removed Margaret Courtenay Baroness Cobham, daughter of Hugh Courtenay 2nd or 10th Earl Devon and Margaret Bohun Countess Devon, and had issue.
Around 1337 Joan Cobham was born to John Cobham 3rd Baron Cobham [aged 16] and Margaret Courtenay Baroness Cobham at Cobham, Kent. Date adjusted from 1316 since her father was born around 1321 and her future husband in 1339. She a great x 2 granddaughter of King Edward I of England. She married John Pole and had issue.
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On 25th February 1355 John Cobham 2nd Baron Cobham [aged 70] died at Cobham, Kent. His son John [aged 34] succeeded 3rd Baron Cobham. Margaret Courtenay Baroness Cobham by marriage Baroness Cobham.
In or before 1403 Joan Braybrooke 5th Baroness Cobham was born to Reginald Braybrooke [aged 46] and Joan Pole 4th Baroness Cobham at Cobham, Kent. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King Edward I of England. She married in or before 1415 Thomas Brooke Baron Cobham and had issue.
On 6th June 1464 Edward Brooke 6th Baron Cobham [aged 49] died at Cobham, Kent. He was buried at Cobham, Kent. His son John [aged 16] succeeded 7th Baron Cobham.
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 26th April 1667. She is gone yesterday with her Lord to Cobham, Kent. He did tell me of the ridiculous humour of our King and Knights of the Garter the other day, who, whereas heretofore their robes were only to be worn during their ceremonies and service, these, as proud of their coats, did wear them all day till night, and then rode into the Parke with them on. Nay, and he tells me he did see my Lord Oxford [aged 40] and the Duke of Monmouth [aged 18] in a Hackney-coach with two footmen in the Parke, with their robes on; which is a most scandalous thing, so as all gravity may be said to be lost among us.
On 3rd October 1701 Joseph Williamson [aged 68] died in Cobham, Kent. He was buried in Westminster Abbey [Map]. He left £6,000 and his library to Queen's College, Oxford.
On 22nd August 1817 Henry Hugh Manvers Percy was born to George Percy 5th Duke Northumberland [aged 39] and Louisa Harcourt Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie [aged 35] at Burwood House, Cobham. He was educated at Eton College [Map].
On 20th September 1405 Reginald Braybrooke [aged 49] died at Sluys [Map]. He was buried at Church of St Mary Magdalene, Cobham.
On 13th January 1434 Joan Pole 4th Baroness Cobham died. She was buried at Church of St Mary Magdalene, Cobham. Her daughter Joan [aged 31] succeeded 5th Baroness Cobham. Thomas Brooke Baron Cobham [aged 43] by marriage Baron Cobham.
On 9th March 1512 John Brooke 7th Baron Cobham [aged 64] died at Cowling, Kent. He was buried at Church of St Mary Magdalene, Cobham. His son Thomas [aged 42] succeeded 8th Baron Cobham.
Henry Machyn's Diary. 12th October 1558. haroldes of armes with standard and a gret ... armes, and vj baners-rolles and iiij baners of [saints, and] x dosen of penselles, and a herse of v prynse[pals ...] wax and ij gret whyt branchys and a viij dosen of skochyons and a cote-armur, elmett, targett, mantylles, and xj dosen of torchys, and mony mornars; [and the] morow masse and a sermon, and grett chere and ... dere for hym.
Note. Page 176. Funeral of George lord Cobham [deceased]. The full ceremonial of this is preserved in the College of Arms, I. 15, f. 387. The monument of lord Cobham, with the effigies of himself and wife, remains in the church of Cobham near Gravesend, and was repaired in the year 1840 at the expense of Francis C. Brooke, esq. of Ufford Place, Suffolk, under the superintendence of the present writer and of Charles Spence, esq. of the Admiralty. (See Gent. Mag. N. S. vol. xv. p. 306.) A portrait of lord Cobham by Holbein is engraved in the beautiful work by Chamberlain: it represents him in singular dishabille, with a bald head, surmounted by a flat cap.
On 30th August 1944 Florence Bligh Countess of Darnley [aged 84] died. She was buried at Church of St Mary Magdalene, Cobham.
On 19th July 1529 Thomas Brooke 8th Baron Cobham [aged 59] died. He was buried at St Mary Magdalene New Churchyard, Cobham. His son George [aged 32] succeeded 9th Baron Cobham. Anne Braye Baroness Cobham [aged 28] by marriage Baroness Cobham.
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In 1559 William Brooke 10th Baron Cobham [aged 31] entertained Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland [aged 25] at Cobham Hall, Kent [Map].
Henry Machyn's Diary. 17th July 1559. The xvij day of July the Quen('s) [aged 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) [aged 31] plasse, and ther her grace had grett chere.
On 17th October 1592 Frances Newton Baroness Cobham [aged 53] died at Cobham Hall, Kent [Map].