Joan (Braybrooke) Brooke (abt. 1392 - 1442)

Born about 1392 in England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of Thomas Brooke — married 20 Feb 1410 in Cooling, Kent, England

Descendants

Died 24 Nov 1442 at about age 50 in Kent, England [uncertain]

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Biography

Joan Braybrooke, suo jure Lady Cobham, was the only surviving daughter and heiress of Sir Reginald Braybrooke by his wife, Joan Pole, suo jure Lady Cobham.^[1][2][3] Joan's date and place of birth are unknown and are estimated.

Marriage and Children

Joan married at Cooling, Kent, by settlement dated 20 February 1409/10, Thomas Brooke (or Broke), Knt.,^[3] son of Thomas Brooke, Knt., and Joan Hanham.^[1][2] Thomas was knighted between 1416 and 1421 and appears, jure uxoris (in right of his wife), to have been considered Lord Cobham.^[1][3] Joan and Thomas had ten sons and four daughters:^[4]

• Edward, Knt., 6th Lord Cobham,^[4] born about 1415, died before 7 July 1464, married Elizabeth Audley (or Tuchet)^[3] and Jane (or Joan) ______^[1][2]
• Reginald,^[1][2] Esq. of Aspal, Suffolk^[4]
• Hugh,^[1][2] ancestor of the Brookes of Glastonbury Abbey and Barrow Grove, Somerset^[4]
• Thomas^[1][2]
• John^[1][2]
• Robert^[1][2]
• Peter^[1][2]
• Christopher^[1][2]
• Henry^[1][2]
• Morgan^[1][2]
• Margaret^[1][2]
• Christian^[1][2]
• Joan (or Isabel?), wife of John Carrant^[1][2] (see Research Note)
• Elizabeth, wife of John St. Maure^[1][2]

Death

Joan, Lady Cobham, died testate 24 November 1442.^[5] Her heir was her son Edward.^[5] Her husband, Thomas, predeceased her 12 August 1439 and was buried at Thorncombe, Devon (now Dorset). He left a will dated 12 February 1438/9, proved May 1440.^[1][2]

Research Note

Two Daughters Named Joan?

History of Parliament Online states that William Bush, son of MP Ralph, married Joan Brooke, daughter of Thomas Brooke.^[6] More research is needed to determine if this is the same Joan (or Isabel?) named by Richardson as a daughter of Joan Braybrooke and Thomas Brooke and wife of John Carrant. If they are the same, the two Joan profiles should be merged.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17} Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, 2nd edition. (Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2011), vol. IV, page 379 WYATT 10, Joan Braybrooke.
2. ↑ ^{2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16} Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2013), vol. V, pages 407-408 WYATT 16, Joan Braybrooke.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3} George Edward Cokayne and Vicary Gibbs ed. Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Vol. III: Canonteign - Cutts, 2nd edition. (London, 1913). Online at Archive.org, page 346.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3} Edward Hasted, "Parishes: Cobham", in The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent. Volume 3 (Canterbury, 1797), pages 404-442 at British History Online, accessed 26 April 2020.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} King's College London, 2014. | Mapping the Medieval Countryside [online]. Available at http://www.inquisitionspostmortem.ac.uk/view/inquisition/26-140/ [Accessed: 10/10/2020] Inquisitions Post Mortem Joan, who was the wife of Thomas Brook, knight 1443
6. ↑ History of Parliament Online: Bush, Ralph 1441.

• Richardson, Douglas. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham. 2nd edition. (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011). See also WikiTree's source page for Magna Carta Ancestry.
• Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham. (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013). See also WikiTree's source page for Royal Ancestry.

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This profile was re-reviewed and approved by Thiessen-117 on 26 Apr 2020.

Joan (Braybrooke) Brooke appears in trails badged by the Magna Carta Project from Magna Carta Surety Baron William Malet, to the following Gateway Ancestors:

• Henry Fleete: developed in 2015 and badged in April 2020. See the trail HERE.
• Randolph Gateways (William and Henry): badged in 2015, needs re-review. See the trail HERE.
• Dorothea Scott: badged in 2020. See the trail HERE.
• Wyatt Gateways (Hawte and Francis) (MCA IV:375-376 WYATT): badged in 2015, re-reviewed Apr 2020. See the trail HERE.

See Base Camp for more information about Magna Carta trails. See the project's glossary for project-specific terms, such as a "badged trail".