344 COBHAM of Matthew de Columbers, da. of Eudes de Moreville. He d. 25 Aug. 1339, aged 79, at Hache, and was bur. in the Beauchamp chapel at Stoke- under-Hamden, Somerset. II. 1339. 2. John (de Cobham), Lord Cobham, s. and h., knighted before 1326/7; M.P. for Kent, 1326/7, 1330, 1332, I335> '^?)2iSl^i ^'■"i 1336/7; Constable of Rochester, jointly with his father, for their lives, 1334; Admiral of the Fleet from the Thames west- ward 1335. He was sum. to a Council, 12 Sep. and 12 Nov. (1342) 16 Edw. Ill, and to Pari, from 24 Nov. (1350) 24 Edw. Ill to 15 Mar. (1355) 29 Edw. Ill, by writs directed Johanni de Cobham. In 1354 he received, doubtless for his military prowess, the dignity of Banneret, with an annuity of 100 marks to support the same. He w., istly, in 13 14, Joan, da. of Sir John Beauchamp [ist Lord Beauchamp of Somerset], of Hache, Somerset, by Joan his wife. She was living I343.(^) He m.., 2ndly, Agnes, da. of Richard Stone, of Dartford. He d. 25 Feb. 1354/5, and was bur. in Cobham Church. M.I. III. 1355. 3- John (de Cobham), Lord Cobham, s. and h. by 1st wife, was sum. to Pari. 20 Sep. (1355) 29 Edw. Ill, by writ directed Johanni de Cobeham, znd from 24 Feb. (1368) 42 Edw. Ill to 18 July (1397) 21 Ric. II, with the addition of the description de Kent, and from 19 Aug. (1399) 23 Ric. II to 9 Feb. (1406) 7 Hen. IV, by writs directed Johanni de Cobeham chivakr.(^) He served in various French expeditions, 1359 to 1376, being made a Banneret in 1370, while, as a Statesman, he was twice appointed to mediate with the French and once with the Flemings. In 1386 he was one of the 14 Commissioners who formed a Council of Regency,() and was one of the Lords appointed to examine into the state of the King's Court; and in 1388 one of the Lords Appellant who impeached de la Pole, de Veer, and others, the King's favourites. He sat as a member of the Court of Chivalry, both in 1 3 8 9 and 1392. He was im- peached in Jan. 1397/8, at Shrewsbury, for his part in the Commission of 1388, and condemned to be hanged, but pardoned on condition of banish- ment to Jersey, whence he returned within two years at the accession of Henry IV. He m., when a minor, and apparently very young, in 1332-33, Margaret, ist da. of Hugh (Courtenay), Earl of Devon, by Margaret, da. of Humphrey (de Bohun), Earl of Hereford, and granddaughter of Edward I. She d. 2 Aug. 1385, and was bur. at Cobham. Brass and M.I. He d. s.p.m., at an advanced age (74 years after his marriage) (*) She was not improbably bur. in Rochester Cathedral. See Arch. Cant., vol. xi, p. 56. C") There is proof in the Rolls of Pari, of his sitting. if) This Council, appointed by the " Wonderful Parliament," included the Dukes of York and Gloucester, the Earl of Arundel, Richard, Lord Scrope, and John, Lord Devereux. V.G.
