COBHAM 353 COB HAM (of Sterborough) BARONY BY i. Reynold de Cobham, of Sterborough, C') in Ling- WRIT. field, Surrey, s. and h. of Sir Reynold de C, of Orkesden and Eynesford, Kent, by Joan, da. and h. (or coh.) of I. 1347. William d'Evere, was b. about 1295; was distinguished (1327-60) in nearly all the battles in France and Flanders; Knight Banneret 1339. He formed one of an important embassy to the Pope in Aug. I343.() Adm. of the Fleet for the West, 1344, and again 1348; was (with the Earl of Warwick and Sir John Chandos) one of the three to whom the charge of Prince Edward was committed at Crecy in 1346. He received an annuity of X500 in 1347. Nom. K.G. circa 1353; was Marshal of the Prince's army at Poitiers in 1356, where he conducted the French King, John, to the English quarters. He was also employed in Embassies to Brabant, ^c. He was sum. to a Council, 25 Feb. (1341/2) 16 Edw. Ill, and to Pari, from 13 Nov. (1347) 21 Edw. Ill to 20 Nov. (1360) 34 Edw. Ill, by writs directed Reginaldo de Cobham^ whereby he is held to have become LORD COBHAM.C^) He m. Joan, da. of Thomas (de Berkeley), Lord Berkeley, by his ist wife, Margaret, da. of Roger (de Mortimer), Earl of March. She had a portion of ^^2,900, and the manor of Langley Burrell, Wilts. He d. "of the second pestilence," 5 Oct. 1361, and was bur. in Lingfield Church. (=) M.I. Will pr. at South- wark 7 Oct. 1361. His widow, who had dower assigned 10 Feb. 136 1/2, d. 2 Oct. 1369. Will, in which she directs to be bur. at Southwark(') if she dies there, dat. 13 Aug. 1369, pr. 23 May 1370 at Orford, in Kent. II. 1361. 2. Reynold (de Cobham), Lord Cobham, only s. and h., b. 1348, being aged 13 at his father's death, had seizin of his father's lands and of his mother's dower lands 5 Feb. 1369/70, having pr. his age and done homage. He, like his father, distinguished himself in the wars of Gascony and France. He was sum. to Pari, from 8 Jan. ( 1 3 70/ 1 ) 44 Edw. Ill to 6 Oct. (1372) 46 Edw. III. He W7., istly, Elizabeth, widow of John, Lord Ferrers (who d. 2 Apr. 1367), and before that of Fulk (le Strange), Lord Strange (of Blackmere), da. of Ralph (de Stafford), ist Earl of Stafford, by Margaret, da. and h. of Hugh (d'Audley), Earl of (») See an article by John Wickham Flower on this family, with tabular pedigree by Charles Spencer Perceval, in the Surrey Archaeological Collections, vol. ii, pp. 1 15-194. C') This Reynold was br. (of the half-blood) of Sir Henry de C, of Rundale, and of John de Cobham, Baron of the Exchequer, being eldest son of the second marriage (with Joan, da. of Hugh de Neville) of John de Cobham, of Cobham and Cowling. (°) For a list of these see note sub Bradeston. V.G. (^) As to how far these early writs of summons did in fact create any peerage title, see Appendix A in the last volume. V.G. (') As to deaths from the plague see vol. viii, Appendix D. (^ The brass in Lingfield Church, sometimes attributed to her, is supposed to belong to Isabel Cobham (wife of Reynold de Cobham of Gatewyck), who died 2 Apr. 1460. +5
