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John de Cobham

Male - 1251


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  • Name John de Cobham 
    Birth of Cobham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3
    Gender Male 
    Death 1251  [3, 4, 5
    Alternate death Bef 8 Apr 1257  [2
    Person ID I6391  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of AW, Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of LD, Ancestor of LDN, Ancestor of TNH, Ancestor of TWK, Ancestor of UKL
    Last Modified 29 Jan 2024 

    Father Henry de Cobham,   b. of Cobham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Between 1225 and 1226 
    Family ID F4547  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Maud Fitz Benedict 
    Children 
    +1. John de Cobham,   b. Abt 1229, of Cobham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 30 Mar 1300 (Age ~ 71 years)
    Family ID F1806  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2024 

    Family 2 Joan de Nevill   d. Aft 1274 
    Marriage Abt 1232  [5
    Children 
    +1. James de Cobham,   b. of Hoo, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1269
    Family ID F6337  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 29 Jan 2024 

  • Notes 
    • Keeper of Rochester castle 1236-41. Sheriff (or perhaps under-sheriff) of Kent, 1241-42. Justice of the Common Pleas 1243-50.

      Charles Fitch-Northen (citation details below) calls him only "of the next generation," suggesting that Fitch-Northen considers it unproved that this John de Cobham was a son of Henry de Cobham.

  • Sources 
    1. [S1128] Doug Smith, 9 Nov 2004, post to soc.genealogy.medieval.

    2. [S1526] The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, Wife of Reverend John Owsley, Generations 1-15, Fourth Preliminary Edition, by Ronny O. Bodine and Bro. Thomas Spalding, Jr. 2013.

    3. [S804] Charles Fitch-Northen, "The Trowbridge Ancestry." The Genealogist 9:3, Spring 1988.

    4. [S1163] J. G. Waller, "The Lords of Cobham, Their Monuments, and the Church." Archaeologia Cantiana XI:49, 1877.

    5. [S5882] Ancestral Lines from Maine to North Carolina by Carl Boyer III. Santa Clarita, California, 2015.