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Complete Peerage Addition: Elizabeth Calthorpe, wife of Robert Southwell, Knt., and Thomas Brooke, Knt., 8th Lord Cobham
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Douglas Richardson
Jun 27, 2013, 4:50:47 PM6/27/13
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Complete Peerage 3 (1913): 347 (sub Cobham) includes an account of Sir Thomas Brooke, Knt., 8th Lord Cobham (died 1529).
Sir Thomas Brooke is known to have had three marriages. Regarding his second marriage, the following unsourced information is provided:
"He married, 2ndly, Dorothy Southwell, widow, who d.s.p." END OF QUOTE.
The online Discovery catalogue includes am abstract of a Chancery lawsuit dated in the period, 1515–18, by which Christopher Urswyk, LL.D., and others, executors of Robert Southwell, Knt., sued Thomas Brooke, Lord Cobham, late the husband of Elizabeth, formerly the wife of the said Robert, regarding the detention of deeds relating to the estate of the said Robert. Reference: National Archives, C 1/452/8.
The above lawsuit thus establishes that Sir Thomas Brooke's second wife was actually Elizabeth, widow of Robert Southwell, Knt.
Jones, History of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge (1936): 215 includes information regarding Sir Robert Southwell and his widow, Elizabeth. This material may be viewed at the following weblink:
http://books.google.com/books?id=hUP5DvScK2IC&pg=PA215
Jones states that Sir Robert Southwell bargained to sell by indenture dated 4 Nov. 1509 to Thomas Greene, Master of St. Catharine's College, and others, all the lands, late of John Flynn's, in Coton, Barton, Whitwell, Grantchester, and Cambridge. On 16 January 1515 Elizabeth Southwell and William Wotton, executors of Sir Robert Southwell, conveyed to the Master and Fellows all their right in the manor and lands, late John Flynn's, of Coton, Barton and Whitwell.
There are two lawsuits in the Court of Common Pleas which establish that Thomas Brooke, Lord Cobham, married Elizabeth, widow of Robert Southwell, Knt., by 1516:
1. In 1516 Thomas Lovell, Knt., sued Thomas Cobham, Knt., Lord Cobham, of London, Elizabeth his wife, and William Wotton, Esq., co-executors of Robert Southwell, Knt., of the King's Household in the Court of Common Pleas regarding a debt. [Reference: http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT2/H8/CP40no1013/aCP40no1013fronts/IMG_1137.htm].
1. In 1516 Christopher Ursewyk, clerk, doctor of law, William Wotton, and Thomas Broke, knight, Lord Cobham, and Elizabeth his wife, acting as co-executors of Sir Robert Southwell, sued Thomas Collys, freemason, of Hanworth, Norfolk, and another regarding a debt.
[Reference: http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT2/H8/CP40no1013/bCP40no1013dorses/IMG_0837.htm
Specific particulars regarding the maiden name and parentage of Elizabeth, wife successively of Sir Robert Southwell and Sir Thomas Brooke, Lord Cobham are found in Eller, Memorials: Archaeological and Ecclesiastical of the West Winch (1861): 82-83, which may be viewed at the following weblink:
http://books.google.com/books?id=MKYLAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA82
Eller indicates that Sir Robert Southwell had two wives. He married (1st) Ursula, daughter of Sir John Bohun, of Midhurst, upon whom he settled the West Winch estate. Ursula died without issue.
Sir Robert Southwell then "contracted, 27th Henry VII. [sic] "a second marriage with Elizabeth, the daughter of Sir Philip Calthorpe, of Burnham Thorpe; upon which occasion, by a deed of covenant, made between himself and Sir Philip Calthorpe, he covenanted that the feoffees of his previous settlement ... should suffer a recovery of the premises to bar the old entail; and accordingly in Michaelmas term they did so by the description of the Manor of West Winch ... and the same became vested in Sir Thomas Howard, Knt. (afterwards Earl of Surrey), Sir Edward Howard .... as new feoffees upon trust for the use of Elizabeth, his wife, for the term of her life, with remainder after her decease to the use of himself and his heirs in fee ... [Sir Robert Southwell] died on the 31st March, 5th Henry 8th [1514], leaving Richard, son of his brother, Francis, his cousin and heir, then of 10 years and a ward of the King."
Thus we see that Elizabeth, wife successively of Sir Robert Southwell and Sir Thomas Brooke, Lord Cobham, was the daughter of Sir Philip Calthorpe, of Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk. The date of the settlement given above as 27th Henry VII is impossible, as King Henry only ruled 24 years.
Reviewing the above we find that Sir Robert Southwell died 31 March 1514, and that his widow, Elizabeth, married (2nd) after 16 Jan. 1515 (date of conveyance) and before 1516 (date of two lawsuits) Sir Thomas Brooke, Lord Cobham. Elizabeth was living in 1516 (date of two lawsuits) but dead before 1518 (date of third lawsuit).
Best always, Douglas Richardson, Salt Lake City, Utah
Complete Peerage 3 (1913): 347 (sub Cobham) includes an account of Sir Thomas Brooke, Knt., 8th Lord Cobham (died 1529).
Sir Thomas Brooke is known to have had three marriages. Regarding his second marriage, the following unsourced information is provided:
"He married, 2ndly, Dorothy Southwell, widow, who d.s.p." END OF QUOTE.
The online Discovery catalogue includes am abstract of a Chancery lawsuit dated in the period, 1515–18, by which Christopher Urswyk, LL.D., and others, executors of Robert Southwell, Knt., sued Thomas Brooke, Lord Cobham, late the husband of Elizabeth, formerly the wife of the said Robert, regarding the detention of deeds relating to the estate of the said Robert. Reference: National Archives, C 1/452/8.
The above lawsuit thus establishes that Sir Thomas Brooke's second wife was actually Elizabeth, widow of Robert Southwell, Knt.
Jones, History of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge (1936): 215 includes information regarding Sir Robert Southwell and his widow, Elizabeth. This material may be viewed at the following weblink:
http://books.google.com/books?id=hUP5DvScK2IC&pg=PA215
Jones states that Sir Robert Southwell bargained to sell by indenture dated 4 Nov. 1509 to Thomas Greene, Master of St. Catharine's College, and others, all the lands, late of John Flynn's, in Coton, Barton, Whitwell, Grantchester, and Cambridge. On 16 January 1515 Elizabeth Southwell and William Wotton, executors of Sir Robert Southwell, conveyed to the Master and Fellows all their right in the manor and lands, late John Flynn's, of Coton, Barton and Whitwell.
There are two lawsuits in the Court of Common Pleas which establish that Thomas Brooke, Lord Cobham, married Elizabeth, widow of Robert Southwell, Knt., by 1516:
1. In 1516 Thomas Lovell, Knt., sued Thomas Cobham, Knt., Lord Cobham, of London, Elizabeth his wife, and William Wotton, Esq., co-executors of Robert Southwell, Knt., of the King's Household in the Court of Common Pleas regarding a debt. [Reference: http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT2/H8/CP40no1013/aCP40no1013fronts/IMG_1137.htm].
1. In 1516 Christopher Ursewyk, clerk, doctor of law, William Wotton, and Thomas Broke, knight, Lord Cobham, and Elizabeth his wife, acting as co-executors of Sir Robert Southwell, sued Thomas Collys, freemason, of Hanworth, Norfolk, and another regarding a debt.
[Reference: http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT2/H8/CP40no1013/bCP40no1013dorses/IMG_0837.htm
Specific particulars regarding the maiden name and parentage of Elizabeth, wife successively of Sir Robert Southwell and Sir Thomas Brooke, Lord Cobham are found in Eller, Memorials: Archaeological and Ecclesiastical of the West Winch (1861): 82-83, which may be viewed at the following weblink:
http://books.google.com/books?id=MKYLAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA82
Eller indicates that Sir Robert Southwell had two wives. He married (1st) Ursula, daughter of Sir John Bohun, of Midhurst, upon whom he settled the West Winch estate. Ursula died without issue.
Sir Robert Southwell then "contracted, 27th Henry VII. [sic] "a second marriage with Elizabeth, the daughter of Sir Philip Calthorpe, of Burnham Thorpe; upon which occasion, by a deed of covenant, made between himself and Sir Philip Calthorpe, he covenanted that the feoffees of his previous settlement ... should suffer a recovery of the premises to bar the old entail; and accordingly in Michaelmas term they did so by the description of the Manor of West Winch ... and the same became vested in Sir Thomas Howard, Knt. (afterwards Earl of Surrey), Sir Edward Howard .... as new feoffees upon trust for the use of Elizabeth, his wife, for the term of her life, with remainder after her decease to the use of himself and his heirs in fee ... [Sir Robert Southwell] died on the 31st March, 5th Henry 8th [1514], leaving Richard, son of his brother, Francis, his cousin and heir, then of 10 years and a ward of the King."
Thus we see that Elizabeth, wife successively of Sir Robert Southwell and Sir Thomas Brooke, Lord Cobham, was the daughter of Sir Philip Calthorpe, of Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk. The date of the settlement given above as 27th Henry VII is impossible, as King Henry only ruled 24 years.
Reviewing the above we find that Sir Robert Southwell died 31 March 1514, and that his widow, Elizabeth, married (2nd) after 16 Jan. 1515 (date of conveyance) and before 1516 (date of two lawsuits) Sir Thomas Brooke, Lord Cobham. Elizabeth was living in 1516 (date of two lawsuits) but dead before 1518 (date of third lawsuit).
Best always, Douglas Richardson, Salt Lake City, Utah
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