Biography of Anne Braye Baroness Cobham 1501-1558

On 21st February 1497 [her father] Edmund Braye 1st Baron Braye [aged 13] and [her mother] Jane Halwell Baroness Bray were married. She by marriage Baroness Braye.

On 21st March 1501 Anne Braye Baroness Cobham was born to [her father] Edmund Braye 1st Baron Braye [aged 17] and [her mother] Jane Halwell Baroness Bray at Eaton Bray, Bedfordshire.

In 1517 George Brooke 9th Baron Cobham [aged 20] and Anne Braye Baroness Cobham [aged 15] were married.

In 1518 [her daughter] Dorothy Brooke was born to [her husband] George Brooke 9th Baron Cobham [aged 21] and Anne Braye Baroness Cobham [aged 16].

In or before 1526 [her daughter] Catherine Brooke was born to [her husband] George Brooke 9th Baron Cobham [aged 28] and Anne Braye Baroness Cobham [aged 24]. She married in or before 1549 John Jerningham and had issue.

On 25th June 1526 [her daughter] Elisabeth Brooke Marchioness Northampton was born to [her husband] George Brooke 9th Baron Cobham [aged 29] and Anne Braye Baroness Cobham [aged 25]. She married 1548 her fourth cousin William Parr 1st Marquess Northampton.

On 1st November 1527 [her son] William Brooke 10th Baron Cobham was born to [her husband] George Brooke 9th Baron Cobham [aged 30] and Anne Braye Baroness Cobham [aged 26]. He married (1) 1545 his half second cousin once removed Dorothy Neville Baroness Cobham, daughter of George Neville 5th and 3rd Baron Abergavenny and Mary Stafford Baroness Bergavenny, and had issue (2) 25th February 1560 his fourth cousin Frances Newton Baroness Cobham and had issue.

On 19th July 1529 [her father-in-law] Thomas Brooke 8th Baron Cobham [aged 59] died. He was buried at St Mary Magdalene New Churchyard, Cobham. His son [her husband] George [aged 32] succeeded 9th Baron Cobham. Anne Braye Baroness Cobham [aged 28] by marriage Baroness Cobham.

In 1533 [her son] Thomas Brooke was born to [her husband] George Brooke 9th Baron Cobham [aged 36] and Anne Braye Baroness Cobham [aged 31]. He married before 1578 Catherine Cavendish.

On 27th January 1533 [her son] George Brooke was born to [her husband] George Brooke 9th Baron Cobham [aged 36] and Anne Braye Baroness Cobham [aged 31].

On 22nd April 1535 [her son] John Brooke was born to [her husband] George Brooke 9th Baron Cobham [aged 38] and Anne Braye Baroness Cobham [aged 34]. He married Alice Norton.

On 5th February 1538 [her son] Henry Brooke was born to [her husband] George Brooke 9th Baron Cobham [aged 41] and Anne Braye Baroness Cobham [aged 36]. He married after 1572 Anne Sutton and had issue.

On 18th October 1539 [her father] Edmund Braye 1st Baron Braye [aged 55] died. His son [her brother] John succeeded 2nd Baron Braye. As a minor he was placed under the wardship of Francis Talbot 5th Earl of Shrewsbury [aged 39]. He would later marry Talbot's daughter [her future sister-in-law] Anne Talbot Baroness Braye and Wharton [aged 15].

In 1545 [her son] William Brooke 10th Baron Cobham [aged 17] and [her daughter-in-law] Dorothy Neville Baroness Cobham [aged 20] were married. He had been a ward of her father George Neville 5th and 3rd Baron Abergavenny. They were half second cousin once removed. He a great x 5 grandson of King Edward III of England. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.

In 1546 [her brother-in-law] Edmund Brydges 2nd Baron Chandos [aged 24] and [her sister] Dorothy Braye Baroness Chandos and Knollys [aged 22] were married.

In 1548 [her son-in-law] William Parr 1st Marquess Northampton [aged 36] and [her daughter] Elisabeth Brooke Marchioness Northampton [aged 21] were married. She by marriage Marchioness Northampton. They were fourth cousins. He a great x 5 grandson of King Edward III of England. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.

In or before 1549 [her son-in-law] John Jerningham [aged 30] and [her daughter] Catherine Brooke [aged 23] were married.

On 12th April 1557 John Brydges 1st Baron Chandos [aged 65] died at Sudeley Castle [Map]. His son [her brother-in-law] Edmund [aged 35] succeeded 2nd Baron Chandos of Sudeley. [her sister] Dorothy Braye Baroness Chandos and Knollys [aged 33] by marriage Baroness Chandos of Sudeley.

Before 19th November 1557 [her brother] John Braye 2nd Baron Braye and [her sister-in-law] Anne Talbot Baroness Braye and Wharton [aged 33] were married. She by marriage Baroness Braye. She being the daughter of Francis Talbot 5th Earl of Shrewsbury [aged 57] who ward John had been. She the daughter of Francis Talbot 5th Earl of Shrewsbury and Mary Dacre.

On 29th September 1558 [her husband] George Brooke 9th Baron Cobham [aged 61] died. His son William [aged 30] succeeded 10th Baron Cobham. Dorothy Neville Baroness Cobham [aged 33] by marriage Baroness Cobham.

On 24th October 1558 [her mother] Jane Halwell Baroness Bray died. Chest tomb at Church of St Mary, Eaton Bray on which there was a brass showing her and her eleven children praying.

Jane Halwell Baroness Bray: she was born to Richard Halwell of Halwell in Devon and Jane Norbury. On 21st February 1497 Edmund Braye 1st Baron Braye and she were married. She by marriage Baroness Braye.

On 1st November 1558 Anne Braye Baroness Cobham [aged 57] died.

Henry Machyn's Diary. 26th November 1558. The xxvj day of November was bered in [Kent] my lord Cobham here husband with iij haroldes .... with a gret baner of armes and iiij baners of [images], and a iiij dosen of armes my lade Cobbam [deceased].

Note. P. 179. Funeral of lady Cobham. Anne eldest daughter of Edmund lord Bray, and sister and coheir of John lord Bray. The ceremonial of her funeral is in the College of Arms, I. 15, f. 293. Her effigy is on the monument already mentioned in p. 367.