Thomas Cobham, ''

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'' 5th Baron Cobham (died 26 April 1471) of

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, and from 1460 ''

'' 5th Baron Cobham, was an

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nobleman.

Life

Sir Thomas was the second son of Reginald de Cobham, ''de jure'' 3rd Baron Cobham by his first wife, Eleanor, daughter of Sir Thomas Culpeper. He was also the brother of

Eleanor Cobham Eleanor Cobham (c.1400 – 7 July 1452) was an English noblewoman, first the mistress and then the second wife of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester. In 1441 she was forcibly divorced and sentenced to life imprisonment for treasonable necromancy, a p ...

, who was the second wife of

Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester Humphrey of Lancaster, Duke of Gloucester (3 October 1390 – 23 February 1447) was an English prince, soldier and literary patron. He was (as he styled himself) "son, brother and uncle of kings", being the fourth and youngest son of Henry IV ...

and accused of treasonable necromancy against Henry VI. Sir Thomas succeeded to the family estates on the death, ''s.p.'', of his niece, Margaret Neville, Countess of Westmorland ( Cobham)."Parishes: King's Walden", ''A History of the County of Hertford'': volume 3 (1912)
pp. 33-37. Accessed 7 February 2011. He married (second) Lady Anne Stafford (1446–c. 14 April 1472, bur Lingfield, Surrey), daughter of

Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham, 6th Earl of Stafford, 7th Baron Stafford (15 August 1402 – 10 July 1460) of Stafford Castle in Staffordshire, was an English nobleman and a military commander in the Hundred Years' War and t ...

and Lady

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, and widow (married firstly April 1460) of Aubrey Vere, JP (died

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, 20 February 1462, interred at

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, London), a son of

John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford (23 April 1408 – 26 February 1462), was the son of Richard de Vere, 11th Earl of Oxford (1385? – 15 February 1417), and his second wife, Alice Sergeaux (1386–1452). A Lancastrian loyalist during the lat ...

.Sir Bernard Burke
''A genealogical history of the dormant, abeyant, forfeited, and extinct peerages of the British empire''
(Google eBook).

Death

Cobham died in 1471, without legitimate male issue, and was buried at

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. His

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, dated 2 April 1471, was proved on 10 July 1471. His daughter Anne succeeded him as ''de jure'' 6th Baroness Cobham. Anne married Edward Burgh, 2nd Baron Burgh and the barony passed to her son,

Thomas Burgh, 1st Baron Burgh Thomas Burgh, 1st Baron Burgh of Gainsborough, ( ; also spelt Borough; – 28 February 1550), ''de jure'' 5th Baron Strabolgi and 7th Baron Cobham of Sterborough, was an English peer. In 1513 he was knighted on Flodden Field, where he was ...

, ''de jure'' 7th Baron Cobham.

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References

* Year of birth unknown 1471 deaths 5 {{England-baron-stub