CP Corrections: Cobhams of Sterborough
Brad Verity
353-355:
A) Reynold de Cobham, 2nd Lord Cobham of Sterborough, Surrey, was "b.
1348, being aged 13 at his father's death"
According to his proof of age, taken at Lingfield, Surrey on 26 Jan.
1370, Reynold de Cobham, son and heir of Reynold de Cobham, was born 8
June 1348 ("Roger Staingdenne, aged 50 years, says that the said
Reynold was 21 years of age at Whitsun last [20 May 1369]") at
"Sterneburgh" [Sterborough] and baptised in the church of Etonbrigge
[Edenbridge in Kent, or perhaps another 14th century name for the
church of Lingfield, where the Cobhams of Sterborough Castle, 2 miles
to the east, were buried?] Queen Philippa, Sir Walter de Mauny and
Sir Thomas de Dovedale were his godparents.
B) Reynold, 2nd Lord Cobham, "m., 2ndly, in 1380 (pardon for m.
without lic. 10 Aug.)"
According to a Miscellaneous IPM taken at Guildford, co. Surrey on 13
Jan. 1416, Reynold married on 9 Aug. 1380, then he and his 2nd wife
Eleanor were divorced and separated from each other by Thomas then
bishop of Rochester on Monday, 26 Sept. 1384. On Thursday, 29 Sept.
1384 they were married anew at Trottiscliffe, co. Kent by apostolic
authority and dispensation.
C) Sir Reynold de Cobham, of Sterborough Castle, 3rd Lord Cobham (by
modern doctrine), "2nd [footnote: His elder br. John d.s.p.m. before
30 Jan. 1415/6. See 'Patent Roll' of that date. V.G.] but 1st surv.
s. and h. by 2nd wife."
According to the 1416 Misc. IPM above, the 2nd Lord Cobham and
Eleanor, had 3 children in their first unlawful union (1380-84), John
and Elizabeth, who both died in their father's lifetime, and Reynold
de Cobham, knight, [3rd Lord Cobham]. So John de Cobham, the first
son of the 2nd Lord, died before his father (so before July 1403).
This is also verified in the 2nd Lord's 1403 IPMs, when his heir was
found to be his son Reynold.
After the remarriage of 29 Sept. 1384, the 2nd Lord Cobham had an
additional son - Thomas Cobham, who dsp before July 1403 - and an
additional daughter - Margaret, who in 1416 was wife of Reynold
Courteys, esquire.
D) Sir Reynold de Cobham, 3rd Lord Cobham, "m., 2ndly, in or shortly
before 1427"
Sir Reynold, 3rd Lord Cobham, was actually married to Anne Bardolf,
widow of Sir William Clifford (who d. shortly before 18 July 1418), in
the first half of 1422.
From Fine Rolls: "9 July 1422, Westminster. Order to the escheator in
the county of Suffolk ... to cause Reynold Cobbeham, 'chivaler,' (who
has now taken the said Anne to wife), and Anne to have full seisin of
Anne's pourparty thus retained in the king's hand, as the king has
taken Reynold's fealty."
When the escheator of Suffolk was ordered on 7 Nov. 1421 to make a
partition into two equal parts of all the lands of Annis, Lady Bardolf
(who had died in July 1421), her daughter Anne was described only as
"late the wife of William Clyfford, knight, deceased", and was not yet
married to Reynold Cobham.
Cheers, -----Brad