John de Cobham

Abt 1229 - Bef 1300  (~ 71 years)

• Name	John de Cobham  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1229	of Cobham, Kent, England   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	Abt 1240  [3]
  Death	Bef 30 Mar 1300  [2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
  Burial	Cobham, Kent, England   [2, 9]
  Person ID	I9859	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 TNH, Ancestor of TWK, Ancestor of UKL, Ancestor of XYZ
  Last Modified	29 Jan 2024

  
  

  Father	John de Cobham,   b. of Cobham, Kent, England d. 1251
  Mother	Maud Fitz Benedict
  Family ID	F1806	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Joan de Septvans,   b. Abt 1245   d. Bef 1298 (Age ~ 52 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1258  [1, 9]
  Children	+ 1. John Cobham,   b. of Blackborough, Devon, England d. Bef 27 Dec 1335 + 2. Henry de Cobham,   b. Abt 1260, of Cobham, Kent, England d. 25 Aug 1339, Hatch Beauchamp, Taunton, Somerset, England (Age ~ 79 years)
  Family ID	F5851	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	23 Oct 2020

  
  

• Notes

  He was sheriff of Kent in 1258-61. He fought for Simon de Montfort at the siege of Rochester castle in 1264. He was Justice Itinerant and of the Common Pleas, 1267-68 and 1270-71; Justice of the King's bench, 1271; Justice itinerant in Middlesex, 1273-74; and Serjeant-at-Law, Justice itinerant in Middlesex, Justice of the King's Bench, and a Baron of the Exchequer, 1275. He was constable of the castle and city of Rochester for life, 1279-80. According to Carl Boyer (citation details below), three weeks before he died he was summoned to Parliament at Westminster.

  
  

• Sources

  [S4558] Reginald Tower, "The Family of Septvans." Arechaeologia Cantiana 40:105, 1928. [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. [S1128] Doug Smith, 9 Nov 2004, post to soc.genealogy.medieval. [S128] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant ed. Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Duncan Warrand, Howard de Walden, Geoffrey H. White and R. S. Lea. 2nd edition. 14 volumes (1-13, but volume 12 spanned two books), London, The St. Catherine Press, 1910-1959. Volume 14, "Addenda & Corrigenda," ed. Peter W. Hammond, Gloucestershire, Sutton Publishing, 1998., month and year only. [S804] Charles Fitch-Northen, "The Trowbridge Ancestry." The Genealogist 9:3, Spring 1988., month and year only. [S1128] Doug Smith, 9 Nov 2004, post to soc.genealogy.medieval., month and year only. [S1163] J. G. Waller, "The Lords of Cobham, Their Monuments, and the Church." Archaeologia Cantiana XI:49, 1877., month and year only. [S5882] Ancestral Lines from Maine to North Carolina by Carl Boyer III. Santa Clarita, California, 2015., month and year only. [S1163] J. G. Waller, "The Lords of Cobham, Their Monuments, and the Church." Archaeologia Cantiana XI:49, 1877.