Henry (Braybrooke) de Braybrooke (abt. 1180 - bef. 1234)

Born about 1180 in Braybrooke, Northamptonshire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Christiana (Ledet) de Furnival — married 1217 in Warden, Bedfordshire, England

Descendants

Died before 13 Apr 1234 before about age 54 in Market Harborough, Leicestershire, England

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Biography

Henry de Braybroc^[1] aka of Braybrooke^[2]

Henry was the son of Robert of Braybrooke.^[2]

Henry and Christiana had three children:

1. Wischard Ledet, their heir, died on crusade in the Holy Land in 1241 with Christiana's second husband, Gerard de Furnival;^[2]
2. John of Braybrooke;^[2] and
3. Margery Braybrooke, who was married to Simon of Pattishall, son and heir of Walter.^[2]

Henry and his father were listed by Roger of Wendover among King John's evil counsellors; when his father, Robert, died in 1211, Henry succeeded him as sheriff, and was later also a justice.^[2]

Henry of Braybrooke died in 1234; he had bequeathed his body to Bushmead Priory, Bedfordshire, of which he was a benefactor.^[2]

On 25 October, 1241, because the king [Henry III] had heard by an inspection of the charter that John, formerly the king, his father, made for Henry of Braybrooke concerning the manor of Corby, which Wischard Ledet […] held of the king in socage, he ordered the sheriff of Northamptonshire that, having accepted security from Mary [sic], the widow of Wischard, for £10 [for the relief of Walter], son and heir of Wischard, he was to cause her to have full seisin of the aforesaid manor with appurtenances until the legal age of the heir, Walter.^[3]

An Inquisition for Henry de Braybroc was taken in Northamptonshire on an unknown date, which found that the two daughters of Walter Ledet, aged 12 and 11, were Henry's heirs, and Henry held Coreby manor in fee and inheritance and by the king's charter, which was the king's ancient demesne before he gave it to Henry and his heirs, who held it at fee farm for 10l. yearly. It was in the king's hands because Robert Peche, who was in the Isle of Ely with the disinherited, had the wardship of the manor through his wife, the widow of Walter Ledet with whom she had two daughters who are the heirs of Coreby manor.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} J E E S Sharp, A E Stamp, eds, Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem and other Analogous Documents Preserved in the Public Record Office, Volume I, Henry III, (London: His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, 1904), 164, Digital Image Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/calendarinquisi00offigoog/page/n367 : accessed 21 November 2018). Abstract No 916 Henry de Braybroc. C. Hen. III. File 47. (9.).
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6} George Garnett, "Braybrooke [Braybroc], Henry of (d. 1234), sheriff and justice", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 23 September, 2010. Oxford University Press, (https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/3300 : accessed 20 November, 2018.)
3. ↑ Calendar of the Fine Rolls of the Reign of Henry III [CFR] 1240–1, Calendar of the Fine Rolls of the Reign of Henry, Volume III, 1234–1242, ed. P. Dryburgh and B. Hartland, technical ed. A. Ciula and J.M. Vieira (Woodbridge, 2009), Henry III Fine Rolls Project's website, no 752, (https://finerollshenry3.org.uk/content/calendar/roll_037.html#it752_001 : accessed 21 October, 2018).

See also:

• Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2013), V:228, Christian Ledet.