Biography of Dorothy Neville Baroness Cobham 1525-1559

Before 14th November 1508 [her father] George Neville 5th and 3rd Baron Abergavenny (age 39) and Joan Fitzalan Baroness Bergavenny were married. She by marriage Baroness Abergavenny. She the daughter of Thomas Fitzalan 10th or 17th Earl of Arundel (age 58) and Margaret Woodville Countess Arundel. They were second cousin once removed. He a great x 3 grandson of King Edward III of England. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.

Before 5th September 1513 [her father] George Neville 5th and 3rd Baron Abergavenny (age 44) and Margaret Brent Baroness Bergavenny were married. She by marriage Baroness Abergavenny.

Around June 1519 [her father] George Neville 5th and 3rd Baron Abergavenny (age 50) and [her mother] Mary Stafford Baroness Bergavenny (age 24) were married. She by marriage Baroness Abergavenny. The difference in their ages was 26 years. She the daughter of [her grandfather] Edward Stafford 3rd Duke of Buckingham (age 41) and [her grandmother] Eleanor Percy Duchess Buckingham. They were second cousin twice removed. He a great x 3 grandson of King Edward III of England. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.

Around 1525 Dorothy Neville Baroness Cobham was born to George Neville 5th and 3rd Baron Abergavenny (age 56) and Mary Stafford Baroness Bergavenny (age 29).

Before 1535 [her mother] Mary Stafford Baroness Bergavenny (age 39) died in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire [Map]. The date of her death based on her husband [her father] George Neville 5th and 3rd Baron Abergavenny (age 65) having married again before his death in 1535.

In or before June 1535 [her father] George Neville 5th and 3rd Baron Abergavenny (age 66) and Mary Brooke Baroness Bergavenny were married. She by marriage Baroness Abergavenny. They were half first cousin once removed. He a great x 3 grandson of King Edward III of England. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.

After 4th June 1535 [her father] George Neville 5th and 3rd Baron Abergavenny (deceased) died. He was buried at All Saints Church, Birling; his heart was buried at Mereworth, probably St Lawrence's Church, Mereworth. His son [her brother] Henry (age 5) succeeded 6th Baron Abergavenny, 4th Baron Abergavenny.

In 1545 William Brooke 10th Baron Cobham (age 17) and Dorothy Neville Baroness Cobham (age 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 1548 William Parr 1st Marquess Northampton (age 36) and [her sister-in-law] Elisabeth Brooke Marchioness Northampton (age 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 1549 [her son] Francis Brooke was born to [her husband] William Brooke 10th Baron Cobham (age 21) and Dorothy Neville Baroness Cobham (age 24).

After 1553 [her husband] William Brooke 10th Baron Cobham (age 25) separated Dorothy Neville Baroness Cobham (age 28).

On 29th September 1558 [her father-in-law] George Brooke 9th Baron Cobham (age 61) died. His son [her husband] William (age 30) succeeded 10th Baron Cobham. Dorothy Neville Baroness Cobham (age 33) by marriage Baroness Cobham.

On 22nd September 1559 Dorothy Neville Baroness Cobham (age 34) died.

On or before 25th September 1559 [her daughter] Frances Brooke was born to [her former husband] William Brooke 10th Baron Cobham (age 31) and Dorothy Neville Baroness Cobham (deceased).

Henry Machyn's Diary. 25th September 1559. The xxv day of September ded my yonge lade Cobham (deceased) in Kent, the wyff of [her former husband] lord Cobham (age 31), and the [lord] warden of the Synke Porttes in Kentt.

Henry Machyn's Diary. 28th September 1559. The xxviij day of September ther was preparyd for the berehyng of yonge lade Cobham (deceased), ix baners of sondre armes, and a viij dosen of skochyons of armes, and a x dosen penselles for her herse at Cobham, the wyche was never shyche [such] sene with lyke fassyon.

Henry Machyn's Diary. 4th October 1559. The iiij day of October whent to here from Cobbam hall my yonge lade Cobbam (deceased), the wyff of my [her former husband] lord Cobbam (age 31), latte mad lord Warden of the v portes, with prestes and clarkes syngyng, and ij haroldes of armes, master Clarenshux (age 49) and Ruges-Dragon, with lx baners of armes of hys and hers petegree; one was a grett baner of ys harmes and hers; and mony morners in blake a C [100], and a lx [60] women in rosett cassokes of brod cloth, be-syd men in mantyll frys-gownes, and the women had nuw raylles; and ther was a goodly hers [hearse] with-owtt wax, and garnyshed with grett baners and velvett, and xx [20] dosen penselles, and vij dosen skochyons of armes; and the chyrche and the plasse hangyd with blake and armes, and a bony .. the velvett a goodly bordur mad and gyldyd, and with ther armes; and so the dene of Rochastur and all the colege both prest and clarke dyd syng, and the qweresters; and Torner the precher dyd pryche; and after all done, they whent to the plasse to dener, for ther was a gret dener, and ther was a ij M. pepull that had ij d. apesse, and after dener pore pepull had boyth mett and drynke; all thys done in Kent.

Note. P. 213. Funeral of lady Cobham. Dorothy, daughter of [her father] George lord Bergavenny, by [her mother] Mary, daughter of [her grandfather] Edward duke of Buckingham. This funeral is recorded in the College of Arms, I. 9, f. 161b, and I. 13, f. 14.

On 25th February 1560 [her former husband] William Brooke 10th Baron Cobham (age 32) and Frances Newton Baroness Cobham (age 21) were married at Whitehall Palace [Map]. She by marriage Baroness Cobham.

On 6th March 1597 [her former husband] William Brooke 10th Baron Cobham (age 69) died. His son Henry (age 32) succeeded 11th Baron Cobham.