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COBHAM 345 lO Jan. 1407/8. (*) His brass, probably set up in his lifetime, is In Cobham Church, but he was bur. at the Grey Friars, London. C") IV. 1408. 4. Joan, suo jure Baroness Cobham, granddaughter and h., being da. and h. of Sir John de la Pole, of Chrishall, Essex (s. of Sir William de la Pole, of Castle Ashby), by Joan, only child of John, Lord Cobham abovenamed, which last named Joan (who ;;;. in 1362, cont. dat. 21 Oct.) d. v.p., about 1388. At an early age she »/., istly, before Nov. i38o,() Sir Robert Hemenhale, of Norfolk, who d. 1 39 1, and was bur. in Westm. Abbey. She m.y 2ndly, Sir Reynold Braybroke, who d. s.p.m.s., at Middleburg on the Scheldt, 20 Sep. 1405, and was bur. in Cobham Church. Brass and M.I. She w., 3rdly, within a year of his death, as 2nd wife. Sir Nicholas Hawberk, who d. (leaving by her a son, John, who d. an infant) 9 Oct. 1407, and was bur. in Cobham Church. Brass and M.I. Within 3 months of his death she sue. her grandfather. She w., 4thly, as 3rd wife, before 18 July 1408, Sir John Oldcastell, who (probably in consequence of this marriage,() but with- out any designation which would prove such to have been the case) was sum. to Pari, from 26 Oct. (1409) 1 1 Hen. IV to 22 Mar. (1413/4) 2 Hen. V,(*) by, writs directed Johanni Oldcastell Chh whereby he is held to have become LORD OLDCASTELL. See fuller account under that title. He was hanged in St. Giles's Fields,(') 25 Dec. 141 7, as a heretic and a traitor. She OT., 5thly, Sir John Harpeden, who survived her for 24 years, and d. 1458, being bur. in Westm. Abbey. Brass and M.I. there. She d. s.p.m.s., 13 Jan. 1433/4, and was bur. in Cobham Church. Brass and M.I.(s) (*) A tabular pedigree shewing the relationship of the eight persons (some of them his 4th cousins) of the name of Cobham, on whom he entailed his estate, failing the heirs of his body, is printed in Arch. Cant., vol. xi, p. 81. C") "In tumba elevata jacet D'nus Joh'es Cobham Baro de com. Kancie." See Coll. Top. et Gen., vol. v, p. 387. He is described by Walsingham as "vir grandaevus simplex et rectus." He is famous as a Founder, a Warrior, and a Statesman. In 1362 he founded a perpetual chantry or College at Cobham; later on, he repaired and sumptuously decorated the church of Cobham, and put a new roof on that of Cowling, and finally, 1380-85, he built the well fortified Castle of Cowling. ("=) By him she had a s., William, who d. s.p., after 1 391. {^) It should be noted that he was the only one of her 5 husbands so sum- moned. V.G. (■=) In the proceedings against him in Pari, in 141 7, he is styled " Dominum Joh'em Oldcastell, Militem, Dominum de Cobham," and in the paper, read 23 Sep. 141 3, declaring his faith, he styles himself "John Oldcastle, Knight, and Lord Cobham." According to Foxe's Martyrs, he was " roasted " in January. V.G. (8) In this brass her 2nd husband only (by whom only, apparently, she had sur- viving issue) is commemorated. On the brass are no less than 6 sons and 4 daughters, besides 6 coats of arms, the last being those of her son-in-law, viz. Brooke impaling Cobham. These are fully described by J. G. Waller in the Jrch. Cant. All the brasses at Cobham are well represented in Belcher's Kentish Brasses, as also (in smaller size) in the Jrch. Cant., vols, xi and xii. 44