CoA Reynold Cobham Baron Cobham Sterborough

Reynold Cobham, 1st Baron Cobham of Sterborough, KG (c.1295–1361) was a medieval English knight and diplomat.

Life

He was the son of Sir Reynold Cobham by Joan, the daughter and heir of William de Evere. This Reynold was the second son of John de Cobham, by his first wife Joan the daughter of William Fitzbenedict. The family were based at

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. In his early life he was employed on diplomatic missions. By 1334 he was a knight in the household of

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and fought in the Scottish campaign against David de Bruce and then on the continent in the Low Countries and Brittany. In 1342 he was summoned to the House of Lords as Lord Cobham of Sterborough. In 1346 he was in the force under Edward III that attacked France, fighting at the

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and the protracted but eventually successful Siege of Calais. In 1352 he was invested as a

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and in 1353 appointed

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, a position he held until his death. In 1355 he served under the

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in Aquitaine, taking part in his march to the Loire and his victory at the

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, where he was credited by the French historian

Jean Froissart Jean Froissart ( Old and Middle French: '' Jehan'', – ) (also John Froissart) was a French-speaking medieval author and court historian from the Low Countries who wrote several works, including ''Chronicles'' and ''Meliador'', a long Arthuria ...

with the slaying of the French knight

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. Reynold married Joan Berkeley by whom he could claim to be related to the noble families of Sutton, Dudley, Beauchamp, De Despencer and Mortimer. The Cobham family, however, were well connected to the ruling families of

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in their own right. He died in 1361, probably of the

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, and was laid to rest in an impressive tomb in Lingfield church. He was succeeded by his son Reynold, the second Lord

Sterborough Starborough Castle, known historically as Sterborough Castle, is a Gothic Revival architecture, Neo-Gothic garden house of ashlar, dressed sandstone near the eastern boundary of Surrey, built in 1754 by Sir James Burrow. It occupies the north-eas ...

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Reynold Reynold is an English masculine given name come from an Old High German personal name made up of the element "ragin" (''advice, decision'') and "wald" (''power, authority, brightness''). It is a cognate of ''Rögnvaldr'', which is also a source of ...

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