Ralph de Cobham, 1st Baron Cobham

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Ralph de Cobham, 1st Baron Cobham (* around 1276 - February 5, 1326 ), was an English nobleman and military man.

Life

He came from Cobham in Kent and was a member of the knighthood. He served as a military leader in the First Scottish War of Independence under John of Brittany, Earl of Richmond and was then considered "the best knight in all of England" until Sir Thomas Ughtred replaced him in this position, as he was in the unsuccessful Battle of Byland on 14. October 1322, in which both fell into Scottish captivity and withstood the enemy for longer.

As early as the summer of 1322 he had attended Parliament in York together with John Dynyeton as a representative for the Earl of Warenne . On December 30, 1324 he himself was called to Parliament by Writ of Summons and thereby raised to Baron Cobham .

Marriage and offspring

By 1324 at the latest he was married to Mary de Braose († 1361/62), a daughter of Sir Piers de Braose († 1312), from Tetbury in Gloucestershire . With her he had a son and heir:

After his death on February 5, 1326, his widow married Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, in 1328 as a second marriage .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ AF Murison: King Robert the Bruce. The Floating Press, 2015, ISBN 1776589750 , p. 150.
  2. ↑ Chris Given-Wilson, Nigel Saul (Ed.): Fourteenth Century England VI. Boydell & Brewer, 2010, ISBN 1843835304 , p. 8.
  3. ^ William Stubbs: The Constitutional History of England, in Its Origin and Development. Cambridge University Press, 2011, ISBN 1108036317 , p. 488.
  4. ^ Cobham entry at Leigh Rayment's Peerage

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predecessor Office successor
New title created Baron Cobham
1324-1326 		John de Cobham
personal data
SURNAME Cobham, Ralph de, 1st Baron Cobham
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sir Ralph de Cobham
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English nobleman and military
DATE OF BIRTH around 1276
DATE OF DEATH February 5, 1326