Joan Brooke 
Joan was born about 1395 in Colmworth, Bedford, Bedfordshire, England. Joan's father was Reginald Braybrook and her mother was Joan Hemenhale. Her paternal grandparents were Gerard de Braybrook and Margaret de Braybrook. She was an only child. She died on November 24th, 1442.General Notes
JOAN, apparently, suo jure BARONESS COBHAM, only survivingdaughter and heir (by the 2nd husband, Sir Reynold BRAYBROKE),was, at her mother's death, wife of Sir Thomas BROOKE, ofBrooke, Somerset,, and of Holdich in Thorncombe, Devon, hermarriage settlement having been dated 20 February 1409/10. Hewas 26 years old, January 1417/8, when he succeeded his father,another Sir Thomas Brooke; was M.P. for Somerset, 1417, 1421,1422, and 1427. He was knighted between 1416 and 1421, andappears, jure uxoris, to have been considered LORD COBHAM. Will,in which he styles himself 'Thomas Brook, Knight, and Lord ofCobham' dated 12 February 1438. He died 1439, and was buried atThorncombe, Devon. M.I. His wife survived him. [Complete PeerageIII:346, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.~ 1264 in Braybrooke, Market Harborough, Northamptonshire, England d.> 1325 in Colmworth, Bedford, Bedfordshire, Englan
- b.~ 1307 in Colmworth, Bedfordshire, England d.17 Mar 1359 in Horsenden, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England
- b.~ 1255 in Doddington, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England d.< 1295
- b.~ 1280 in Doddington, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England
- b.~ 1258 in Bourne, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England
- b.~ 1332 in Colmworth, Bedford, Bedfordshire, England d.01 Feb 1402 in Horsenden, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England
- b.~ 1307 in Great Hampden, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England d.> 1332
- b.~ 1356 in Colmworth, Bedfordshire, England d.20 Sep 1405 in Middleberg on Scheldt (wounded in attack on Sluys, Flanders
- b.~ 1335 in Orton Longueville, Peterborough, Huntingdonshire, England d.< 1369
- b.~ 1395 in Colmworth, Bedford, Bedfordshire, England d.24 Nov 1442
- b.< 1368 in Chrishall, Saffron Walden, Essex, England d.13 Jan 1434 in Cobham, Kent, England
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Details of Joan's family with Thomas Brooke
Sources/Citations
AFN:, Tudor Place, Horrocks, Philips, Winget, Keeler, Clark, Watson, Lockwood, Strong, Gates and ancestors, The Phillips, Weber, Kirk and Staggs Family, http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=schluck&id=I5280&style=TABLE
AFN:, Tudor Place, Horrocks, Philips, Winget, Keeler, Clark, Watson, Lockwood, Strong, Gates and ancestors, The Phillips, Weber, Kirk and Staggs Family, http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=schluck&id=I5280&style=TABLE
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