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About Petronel Brooke
- 'Petronel
- 'F, b. circa 1425
- ' Petronel was born circa 1425 at England. She married Hugh Brooke, son of Sir Thomas Brooke, Sheriff of Devonshire and Joan Braybrooke, circa 1448 at England.
- 'Family Hugh Brooke b. c 1421
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- ◦Thomas Brooks+ b. c 1450
- http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p2379.htm#...
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- 'Proceedings ([n.d.])
- http://www.archive.org/details/proceedings43socigoog
- http://www.archive.org/stream/proceedings43socigoog#page/n134/mode/...
- VII.— Sir Thomas Brook, the son of Sir Thomas Brook and the Lady Johanna, was born about 1391, he being twenty- six years of age at the death of his father, 23rd January, 1417-8. He was Knight of the Shire for Dorset, 1 Henry V (1413-4) : for the county of Somerset, 8 Henry V (1420-1),
- http://www.archive.org/stream/proceedings43socigoog#page/n135/mode/...
- and 1 and 5 Henry VI (1422-3 and 1426-7), and was knighted between 1416 and 1422.
- His marriage with Joan, only surviving child and sole heiress of Joan de la Pole, Lady of Cobham, by her second husband Sir Reginald Braybroke, took place in 1409-10, and she proved a prolific mother, bringing him ten sons and four daughters. Of the sons (1) Edward, eldest son and heir was summoned to Parliament as a Baron by writs from 13th January, 1444-5 (23 Henry VI), to 28th February, 1462-3 (2 Edw. IV), as Edward Broke de Cobham, Chivalier.' He was a strong adherent of the House of York, and as previously related, had his mansion at Olditch sacked by the Lancastrian Earl of Ormond ; was present at the first battle of St. Alban's, 23rd May, 1455 ; took part in the solemn procession to St. Paul's, London ; and commanded the left wing of the Yorkshire men at the battle of Northampton, 10th July, 1460, He married Elizabeth, daughter of James Touchet, Lord Audley, and died in 1464. (2) Reginald, was of Aspall, in Suffolk, with descent still in existence. '(3) Hugh : he married Petronel .... and his descendants settled in Somerset'. John, his son, Sergeant-at-law to Henry VIII, married a daughter of Mericke, of Bristol, and had three sons : Thomas, married Joan Speke, and had issue ; Hugh, of Long Ashton ; Arthur, whose son Edward, was of Barrow-Gumey, and he had issue Hugh, who married Dorothy Preston, of Glastonbury, ; Thomas, also of Glastonbury Abbey (1623), who married Rebecca, daughter and co-heir of John Wyke, of Ninehead, ; and Sir Davy or David Brook, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, Knighted 1 Mary (1553), who married Catherine, sister of John Bridges, Lord Chandois — this descent is given in the Somerset Visitation for 1623. (4) Thomas; (5) John; (6) Robert ; (7) Peter ; (8) Christopher ; (9) Henry ; (10) Morgan ; all died without issue. Of the daughters: (1) Margaret; (2) Christian, died without issue; (3) Joan, or query Isabel, married John Carrant ; (4) Elizabeth, John St, Maure, whose ....
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Petronel Brooke's Timeline
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Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
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