Edward Brooke, 6th Baron Cobham (c. 14156 June 1464),

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, 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

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in 1442, the same year he succeeded to his mother's title. An ardent supporter of Richard Duke of York, he fought on the Yorkist side at the

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on 23 May 1455 and at the Battle of Northampton on 10 July 1460. He married Elizabeth Touchet (b. c. 1433), daughter of

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, and his first wife Margaret de Ros, and had at least two children, John Brooke, 7th Baron Cobham and Elizabeth Brooke, married to Robert Tanfield; their son, also named Robert Tanfield (b. 1461), married Catherine Nevill (b. bef. 1473), daughter of Edward Nevill, 1st Baron Bergavenny, and second wife Katherine Howard, and had issue. His widow remarried Christopher Worsley, before 8 November 1464.L. G. Pine, The New Extinct Peerage 1884-1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant and Suspended Peerages With Genealogies and Arms (London, U.K.: Heraldry Today, 1972), page 78.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cobham, Edward Brooke, 6th Baron 1464 deaths People of the Wars of the Roses Year of birth unknown Year of birth uncertain

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