Henry de Cobham, 1st Baron Cobham ( 1260 – 25 August 1339)
L. G. Pine
Leslie Gilbert Pine (22 December 1907 – 15 May 1987) was a British writer, lecturer, and researcher in the areas of genealogy, nobility, history, heraldry and animal welfare.
Early life and education
Pine was born at Bristol, the son of Henry Mo ...
, ''The New Extinct Peerage 1884-1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant and Suspended Peerages With Genealogies and Arms'' (London, UK: Heraldry Today, 1972), page 77. lord of the manor of
Cobham, Kent and of
Cooling, also in Kent, was an
English peer
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Origins
He was the son and heir of
John de Cobham
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, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The ''Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant'', new ed., volume III, page 343. of Cobham and of Cooling,
Sheriff of Kent
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, Constable of
Rochester Castle in Kent and one of the
Barons of the Exchequer
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,
[ by his wife Joan de Septvans (d. 1298),][Belcher] whose monumental brass
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survives in Cobham Church, a daughter and co-heiress of Sir Robert de Septvans[ of Chartham in Kent.
His uncle was Sir Henry de Cobham (d. c. 1316), of Rundale, Kent, ]Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports
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, who by his wife Joan Pencester (bef. 1269 – 1314/15) (a daughter of Stephen de Pencester
Stephen de Pencester was Warden of the Cinque Ports when the first authoritative list of Cinque Ports Confederation Members was produced in 1293.
Pencester was Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports for 32 years, his tenure finishing in 1299 when the ...
), was the father of Stephen de Cobham, 1st Baron Cobham "of Rundale" and of John de Cobham (d. c. 1314), the latter who died childless.
The Cobham coat of arms was: ''Gules, on a chevron or three lions rampant sable'', as visible on the top two shields on the brass in Cobham Church of Joan Septvans (d.1298), wife of John de Cobham (d. 1300) and mother of Henry de Cobham, 1st Baron Cobham.
Brass of mother
A monumental brass
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, laid down in 1320, survives in St Mary Magdalene's Church, Cobham, of Joan Septvans (d. 1298), wife of John de Cobham (d. 1300) and mother of Henry de Cobham, 1st Baron Cobham. It displays one of the earliest-known specimens of a Gothic canopy. The inscription, in Longobardic letters and Leonine verse is as follows:
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("Dame Jone de Cobham lies here, may God have mercy on her soul. Whosoever shall pray for her soul shall have forty days of pardon"). Concerning the famous Cobham brasses, William Belcher, in his ''Kentish Brasses'' (1905), stated: "Kent is peculiarly rich in Brasses. It has, perhaps, a larger number and a more representative collection than any other county, although individually finer examples may be found elsewhere. No church in the world possesses such a splendid series as the nineteen brasses in Cobham Church, ranging in date between 1298 and 1529". Thirteen of the brasses belong to the years 1320–1529 and commemorate members of the Cobham family and of the Brooke family, their heirs.
Career
He was made Constable
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of Rochester Castle for life in 1303/4, of Dover Castle, of Tonbridge Castle
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Early history
Following the Norman Conquest, Richard Fitz Gilbert was granted land in Kent to guard the crossing of the River Medway. He erected a simple Motte-and- ...
in 1324 and of Canterbury, all in Kent.[ He was ]Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports
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in 1307 and between 1315 and 1320 and he served thrice as Sheriff of Kent
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(1300–1301, 1307 and 1315).[
On 8 January 1312/13 he was created Baron Cobham "of Kent" (to distinguish his title from that of his first cousin Baron Cobham "of Rundale") by writ.] He presided at the arraignment of Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Baron Badlesmere
Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Baron Badlesmere (18 August 127514 April 1322) was an English soldier, diplomat, member of parliament, landowner and nobleman. He was the son and heir of Sir Gunselm de Badlesmere (died ca. 1301) and Joan FitzBer ...
for treason at Canterbury in 1322.[
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Marriage and issue
At sometime before July 1285, he married Maud de Moreville, widow of Matthew de Columbers (d. pre-1284) (whom she had married before 1284), and a daughter of Eudes de Moreville. By his wife he had issue including:
* John de Cobham, 2nd Baron Cobham (d. 1355), son and heir.
Death and burial
He died at Hatch Beauchamp in Somerset, the seat of the Beauchamp family's feudal barony of Hatch Beauchamp, and was buried in the Beauchamp Chapel at Stoke-sub-Hamdon
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, Somerset. He left a highly illustrated book called an ''Apocalypse to Juliana Leybourne
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''.
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