Joan Brooke (

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Braybroke), suo jure 5th Baroness Cobham of Kent (d. 25 November 1442), was an English aristocrat.

Life

Her parents were Sir Reginald (or Reynold) Braybroke and Joan de la Pole, 4th Baroness Cobham (later Oldcastle or Oldcastell). She succeeded to her mother's title on 13 January 1433 or 1434. She married, c. 20 February in 1409 or 1410, Sir Thomas Brooke of Holdich,

Thorncombe Thorncombe is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset. It was historically, until 1844, an exclave of Devon. It lies five miles (8 km) south east of the town of Chard in neighbouring Somerset. Thorncombe is situated ...

Devon Devon ( , historically known as Devonshire , ) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in South West England. The most populous settlement in Devon is the city of Plymouth, followed by Devon's county town, the city of Exeter. Devon is ...

, and of

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(c. 1391 - c. 1439, bur. Thorncombe, Devon), a

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(bet. 1416–1421) and a

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for Somerset in 1417, between 1421 and 1422 and in 1427, and had at least two children,

Edward Brooke, 6th Baron Cobham Edward Brooke, 6th Baron Cobham (c. 14156 June 1464), lord of the Manor of Cobham, Kent, was an English peer. Biography His parents were Sir Thomas Brooke and wife Joan Braybroke, 5th Baroness Cobham. He was a member of parliament for Somerset ...

and Reginald Brooke of Aspall,

Suffolk Suffolk () is a ceremonial county of England in East Anglia. It borders Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south; the North Sea lies to the east. The county town is Ipswich; other important towns include Lowes ...

, an ancestor of the Brookes of Ufford, Suffolk.

References

1442 deaths 5

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