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Gerard BRAYBROOKE, Of Colmworth & Horsenden, Sir

Gerard BRAYBROOKE, Of Colmworth & Horsenden, Sir[1]

Male Abt 1332 - 1403  (~ 71 years)

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  • Name Gerard BRAYBROOKE  [2, 3
    Suffix Of Colmworth & Horsenden, Sir 
    Born Abt 1332  Colmworth, Bedfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Gender Male 
    _UID 4547C415D39442BF8EA659CF37D59ACE9D45 
    Died 1 Feb 1402-1403  Horsenden, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Person ID I11759  Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
    Last Modified 5 Feb 2012 

    Married Y  [3
    Family ID F12942  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Married Bef Apr 1350  1st Wife Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Last Modified 29 Aug 2016 
    Family ID F5958  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Isabel BASSET,   b. Abt 1332, Drayton, Staffordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 25 Apr 1393, Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 61 years) 
    Married Abt May 1369  2ND Husband, 2ND Wife Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Last Modified 29 Aug 2016 
    Family ID F5959  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Following is excerpted from a post to SGM, 11 Jun 1999, by Robert O'Connor:

      From: Robert O'Connor ([email protected])
      Subject: Braybrooke
      Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.medieval
      Date: 1999/06/11

      Sir GERARD BRAYBROOKE, Kt., M.P., of Colmworth, Beds. & Horsenden, Bucks., Born c. 1332. M 1st before Easter 1350 Margaret, d. & heir of John Longueville, M.P., of Orton Longueville, Hunts. (See LONGUEVILLE). M 2nd c. May 1369 Isabel (She M 1st Sir Thomas Shirley, M.P., of Lower Ettington, Warw. - See SHIRLEY ? She Died 25 April 1393), natural d. of Ralph, 2nd Baron Basset, of Drayton, Staffs. (See BASSET). He joined the entourage of the Black Prince as an esquire, serving both in the Gascon expedition, 1355-7, which culminated in the Battle of Poitiers, & on a subsequent campaign in 1359. Knighted before May 1361. Commissioner for Oyer & Terminer for Beds., Feb. 1363 & June 1371. Appointed to various other Royal Commissions, 1371 to 1402. Member of Parliament for Beds., 1377 & 1390. Died 1 Feb. 1402/3. He had issue by his 1st wife: HoP, 1386-1421, II, pp 343-6, III, p 277 & IV, p 1386 Faris, p 286.

      Note: Magna Charta Sureties & Burke's Peerage question the legitimacy of Isabel Basset, but aren't sure, and being sister of the 3rd Baron Basset, she was granddaughter of the 2nd Baron, because her father dvp.

  • Sources 
    1. [S579] Jim Weber.

    2. [S116] Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists, by David Faris, 2nd Edition 1999, NEHGS, 383 (Reliability: 3).

    3. [S44] Newsgroup: soc.genealogy.medieval, at groups - google.com, Robert O'Connor, 11 Jun 1999 (Reliability: 3).