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Henry de Cobham

Male Abt 1260 - 1339  (~ 79 years)


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  • Name Henry de Cobham 
    Birth Abt 1260  of Cobham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5
    Gender Male 
    Death 25 Aug 1339  Hatch Beauchamp, Taunton, Somerset, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 4, 5, 6, 7
    Burial Stoke-under-Hamden, Somerset, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 6
    Siblings 1 sibling 
    Person ID I11395  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of DDB, 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. Abt 1229, of Cobham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 30 Mar 1300 (Age ~ 71 years) 
    Mother Joan de Septvans,   b. Abt 1245   d. Bef 1298 (Age ~ 52 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1258  [8, 9
    Family ID F5851  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Maud de Morville 
    Marriage Bef 30 Jun 1285  [2, 10, 11
    Children 
    +1. John de Cobham,   b. of Cobham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 Feb 1355
    Family ID F5104  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 21 Jan 2018 

  • Notes 
    • "[H]ad livery of his father's lands 10 May 1300, being then aged 40, in which year (as again 1311-15) he was in the expedition to Scotland; Constable of Rochester, for life, 1303/4; as 'Henry de Cobham junior' he was Constable of Dover Castle, and Warden of the Cinque Ports, 1315-16. He was summoned to Parliament from 8 January 1312/3, to 22 January 1335/6, by writs directed Henrico de Cobham, whereby he is held to have become Lord Cobham. He sided with Edward II against the rebellious Barons, and presided at Canterbury at the arraignment of Lord Badlesmere as a traitor in 1322. Governor of Tonbridge Castle, 1324." [Complete Peerage]

  • Sources 
    1. [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., date only.

    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. [S1128] Doug Smith, 9 Nov 2004, post to soc.genealogy.medieval., date only.

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

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

    6. [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.

    7. [S1128] Doug Smith, 9 Nov 2004, post to soc.genealogy.medieval.

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

    9. [S4558] Reginald Tower, "The Family of Septvans." Arechaeologia Cantiana 40:105, 1928.

    10. [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., year only.

    11. [S1128] Doug Smith, 9 Nov 2004, post to soc.genealogy.medieval., year only.