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George Brooke, 9th Baron Cobham (29 September 1558)
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, was an English peer, soldier and
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, who participated in the political turmoil following the death of King
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Origins

He was the eldest surviving son of
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by his first wife Dorothy Heydon, a daughter of Sir Henry Heydon and Anne Boleyn. His paternal grandparents were John Brooke, 7th Baron Cobham and Margaret Neville, a daughter of
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and Katherine Howard.
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His maternal grandparents were Sir Henry Heydon and Anne Boleyn, daughter of
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and cousin to King King Henry VIII's second wife and Queen Consort,
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. The 3rd Baron Bergavenny was the youngest son of
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and his second wife, Lady Joan Beaufort, daughter of
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's third marriage and half-sister of King Henry IV.Douglas Richardson. ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', 2nd Edition, 2011. p. 167. Bergavenny's wife, Katherine Howard, was the daughter of Sir Robert Howard and Lady Margaret Mowbray. Katherine's brother was the first
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and
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.


Career

In his youth he accompanied his father to the marriage of Princess Mary (sister of King Henry VIII), to King
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. He returned to France during the 1520s, fighting with distinction around
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. In 1517 or before 1526 he married Anne Bray. In July 1523, after the taking or
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, he was invested as a
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by the
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and succeeded in his father's title in November 1529. In 1536 he was one of the 27 peers for the trial of his second cousin Queen
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. After the dissolution of the monasteries he received large grants of land. In July 1523 after the taking of
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, he was invested as a
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by
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and succeeded to his father's title in November 1529. In 1536 he was one of the 27 peers at the trial of his second cousin Queen
Anne Boleyn Anne Boleyn (; 1501 or 1507 – 19 May 1536) was List of English royal consorts, Queen of England from 1533 to 1536, as the Wives of Henry VIII, second wife of King Henry VIII. The circumstances of her marriage and execution, by beheading ...
. After the Dissolution of the Monasteries he acquired much former monastic property. At home in
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, he fulfilled his feudal duties, serving as Justice of the Peace for the county. In 1544, he occupied a high position in the English army that invaded
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; later that year, he was appointed commanding officer of English-controlled
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, a personal possession of the king. In 1546 he became
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against the Scots, under the
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. He was made a
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on 24 April 1549. Brooke's family were dogged by scandal. His sister,
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, was married to Sir
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but lived openly in adultery with another man. Allegedly she attracted the attention of
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in 1542, and
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, the Imperial ambassador, thought that had she tried she could have become Henry's sixth wife. His daughter,
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, was also prone to scandal as from 1543 she had lived with her future husband
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whilst he was separated from his wife Anne Bourchier, 7th Baroness Bourchier. They eventually married during the reign of
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, but this was declared invalid by
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. In the reign of
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, their marriage was finally confirmed as valid. He resigned his post in 1550 and became a member of the Privy Council of
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on 23 May. After Edward's death, Brooke supported the attempt by
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to place his daughter-in-law
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on the throne. He was pardoned by Queen
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, but subsequently fell under suspicion again. His nephew, Sir Thomas Wyatt the younger was the leader of
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, a Protestant rebellion which brought suspicion on the whole family. Brooke's daughter, Elizabeth Brooke, is thought to have been the instigator of the plot to place
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on the throne instead of Mary I. During
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, Wyatt besieged and took Cobham in the latter's home,
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; Brooke claimed to have resisted, but after the rebellion failed, he was accused of complicity in the rebellion and imprisoned in the
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for a brief period, but was released. The next year, at the start of the
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Queen's formal reconciliation with the
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, he was assigned to welcome to England the
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, who went on to be responsible for many Protestant martyrdoms in England. The entertainment is recorded as having taken place at Cooling Castle in 1555. After his release, Brooke limited himself to local affairs in Kent. He died in 1558, closely followed by his wife, Anne Bray. An inquest post mortem was held for his on 20 January 1558/1559 and his
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, dated 13 January 1557/1558, was probated on 6 December 1560. He was succeeded in the barony by his son,
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.


Marriage and issue

In about 1517, certainly before 1526, at
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in
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, he married Anne Braye (b.1501), eldest daughter and co-heiress of
Edmund Braye, 1st Baron Braye Edmund Braye, 1st Baron Braye (or Bray; c. 1484 – 18 October 1539), of Eaton Bray in Bedfordshire, was an England, English Peerage, peer. Origins He was the son of John Braye lord of the manor of Eaton Bray in Bedfordshire; his younger br ...
(c.1480–1539), of Eaton Bray, by his heiress wife Jane Halliwell (c.1480–1558). By his wife he had issue ten sons and four daughters:


Sons

*
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(1 November 1527 – 6 March 1597), eldest son and heir, who married firstly, Dorothy Nevill, by whom he had one daughter, and secondly in 1560, Frances Newton, a
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to Queen
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, by whom he had seven children. *George Brooke (27 January 1533 – 1570), who married Christian or Christiana Duke, only daughter and sole heiress (of his unsettled lands) of
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(c. 1515 – 1572), MP, of
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,
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, by whom he had issue: **Duke Brooke; **Peter Brooke; * Thomas Brooke (1533–1578), ''alias'' "Thomas Cobham", MP, married and had issue. *
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(22 April 1535 – 1594), ''alias'' "John Cobham", who before 1561 married Lady Alice Norton (''alias'' Cobbe), widow of Sir John Norton of Northwood, Milton, Kent, without issue. * Sir Henry Brooke (5 February 1537 or 1538 – c. 1591 or January 1592), who married Anne Sutton (d. circa January 1611 or 1612), a daughter of Sir Henry Sutton of
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, by whom he had issue: ** John Brooke, 1st Baron Cobham; **Philippa Brooke (d. c. September 1613, buried at Stockeston,
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, on 28 September 1613), wife successively of Walter Calverley and Sir Thomas Burton, 1st Baronet; **Ann Brooke, wife of Edward Evenden.


Daughters

*Dorothy Brooke (b. 1518); * Elisabeth Brooke (25 June 1526 – 2 April 1565), who married (bigamously, as his second wife)
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(only brother of Queen Katherine Parr, last of the six wives of king Henry VIII), while he was deemed still wedded to Anne Bourchier, 7th Baroness Bourchier, having obtained a legally incomplete divorce. Without issue. Having unsuccessfully consulted doctors in Antwerp, she died of breast cancer at the Blackfriars and was buried in nearby
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G. E. Cokayne, ''
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'', n.s., Vol.IX, pp.672–3
in the
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; * Katherine Brooke (b. c. 1527), who married John Jerningham, by whom she had issue.


Death and burial

He died on 29 September 1558, closely followed by his wife, Anne Bray, and was buried in the chancel of St. Mary Magdalene's Church, Cobham. His
inquisition post mortem An Inquisition post mortem (abbreviated to Inq.p.m. or i.p.m., and formerly known as an escheat) (Latin, meaning "(inquisition) after death") is an English medieval or early modern record of the death, estate and heir of one of the king's tenants-i ...
was held on 20 January 1559 and his
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, dated 13 January 1557/1558, was proved on 6 December 1560. He was succeeded by his eldest son,
William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham Sir William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham, Knight of the Garter, KG (1 November 1527 – 6 March 1597), lord of the manor, lord of the Manor of Cobham, Kent, was Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, and a member of parliament for Hythe (UK Parliament c ...
.


References

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