Gerard (Braybrooke) de Braybrooke (abt. 1332 - 1403)

Born about 1332 in Bedford, Bedfordshire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Margaret (Longueville) DeLongville — married 1350 in England

Husband of Isabel (Meynell) Braybrooke — married about 2 May 1369 in England

Descendants

Died 1 Feb 1403 at about age 71 in Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England

Biography

Sir Gerard de Braybroke, born about 1332, was the son of Sir Gerard Braybrooke (died 1359) and his wife Isabelle (or Elizabeth) Dakeney.^[1] His father also left a younger son Robert, who died in 1404.

Marriages and Children

Gerard married first to Margaret de Longeville, daughter and heiress of John de Longeville and his wife Margaret.^[1] They were married before Easter 1350.^[1][2] They had two sons and one daughter:

• Gerard, Knt.^[1][2]
• Reginald, Knt.,^[2] married Joan Pole^[1]
• Joan, wife of Reginald Everingham and William Thwing^[1]

Gerard married second, as her third husband, Isabel de Meynell, widow of Thomas de Shirley and John de Wodhull and daughter of Sir Hugh de Meynell and his second wife, Alice de Audley. They were married by license dated 2 May 1369.^[1] They had one son and one daughter:

• Ralph^[1]
• Nichole, who married Thomas Chaworth^[1]

Death

Sir Gerard died 1 February 1402/3.^[1]

Inquisitions Post Mortem

Gerard de Braybrook, knight

"Writ 4 Feb. 1403." ^[3]

"John de Wodhull, son of John de Wodhull, knight, baron of Wodhull, held the manors of Odell and Langford, and enfeoffed Thomas de Reynes and Lawrence de Pabenham, knights, John Curteys and William de Wodhull. They by a fine of 1376 shown to the jurors [CP 25(1) 288/50 no. 786, licence CPR 1374–7, p.275] granted them to Gerard Braybrook, knight, and Isabel his wife for their lives with remainder to Nicholas de Wodhull and his heirs. Isabel died and Gerard held them. They should remain to Nicholas de Wodhull."

"He died on 1 Feb. last. Gerard Braybrook, knight, his son and heir, is aged 30 years and more. Nicholas Wodhull is aged 50 years and more."

"They granted them to Gerard Braybrok, knight, and Isabel his wife for their lives, with successive remainders to Reynold Braybrok, knight, and Joan for their lives, Gerard Braybrok, knight, junior, and his heirs male, Reynold Braybrok and his heirs male, and the right heirs of Gerard Braybrok, senior."

"Isabel died in the lifetime of Gerard Braybrok."

"Gerard Braybroke, knight, his son and heir, is aged 30 years and more."

"He died on 1 Feb. 1403 holding nothing of the king in chief but Robert bishop of London, Gerard Braybroke, knight, junior, William Thirnyng, John Hervy and John Boun held the castle and manor of Castle Ashby and Chadstone in their demesne as of fee. These they granted to Gerard Braybroke, knight, senior, and Isabel for their lives. If they should die within 10 years their executors were to hold them for the remainder of the term. So they held. By another deed the feoffees granted that after the 10 years the lands should remain to Reynold Braybroke, knight, and Joan and their heirs male, on condition that if John, son and heir of John Hemenale, knight, should die without lawful heirs of his body, the remainder to the heirs of Reynold and Joan should cease and they should hold for life. If they died without heirs male or John son of Robert Hemenale died without lawful heirs of his body, after their deaths the remainder should be successively to the heirs male of Gerard de Braybrook, knight, senior, the heirs male of Reynold, and the right heirs of Gerard, senior.

"Gerard de Braybroke, senior, and Isabel attorned to Reynold and Joan. Isabel died during the life of Gerard. John son of Robert de Hemenhale died without heirs of his body. The ten years is ended. Therefore Gerard held for life with remainder to Reynold and Joan."

Source

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9} Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), Vol. I, pp. 515-516, BRAYBROOKE 12
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421, ed. J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe., 1993 [1]
3. ↑ J. L. Kirby. "Inquisitions Post Mortem, Henry IV, Entries 678-740," in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 18, Henry IV, (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1987), 227-244. British History Online, accessed May 13, 2017, [2].

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