page_title: Manor of Cobham, Kent
section_title: John Brooke, 7th Baron Cobham (d. 1512)
hierarchical_section_title: Manor of Cobham, Kent / Descent / Brooke / John Brooke, 7th Baron Cobham (d. 1512)
caption_attribution_description: English: Monumental brass in St. James Church, Cooling, Kent, to Faith Brooke (d. 21 September 1508), a daughter of John Brooke, 7th Baron Cobham (d. 1512), of Cooling Castle. Inscription: PRAY FOR YE SOULE OF FFEYTH BROOKE LATE YE DAUGHT. OF SIR JOHN BROOKE, LORD OF COBHAM WHICH FFEYTH DECESSED THE XXI DAY OF SEPTEB. YE YER OF OR. LORD MDVIII ON WHOSE SOULE JHU. HAVE MCY.
context_page_description: Cobham is an historic manor in the county of Kent, England, largely co-terminous with the ecclesiastical parish of Cobham. The surviving grade I listed manor house, known as Cobham Hall, is one of the largest and most important houses in Kent, re-built in the Tudor style by William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham. The central block was rebuilt 1672–82 by Charles Stewart, 3rd Duke of Richmond, 6th Duke of Lennox. Today the building houses a private boarding school for girls, known as "Cobham Hall School", established there in 1962, which retains 150 acres of the ancient estate. St Mary Magdalene Church, The parish church of Cobham, contains famous monumental brasses of members of the de Cobham and Brooke families, lords of the manor, which are reputedly the finest in England. William Belcher in his Kentish Brasses stated: No church in the world possesses such a splendid series as the nineteen brasses in Cobham Church, ranging in date between 1298 and 1529. In the church also survives the sumptuous chest tomb and alabaster effigies of George Brooke, 9th Baron Cobham and his heiress wife Ann Bray.
context_section_description: John Brooke, 7th Baron Cobham (died 1512) was a minor at the death of his father in 1464 when his wardship was granted to Edward Neville, 3rd Baron Bergavenny (died 1476), of nearby Mereworth Castle, Kent, an uncle of King Edward IV. In 1497 together with Lord Bergavenny he defeated the Cornish Rebellion at Blackheath, where one of its leaders James Tuchet, 7th Baron Audley, his cousin, was taken prisoner. He married twice: firstly to Eleanor Austell of Suffolk, without issue, and secondly to Margaret Nevill (died 1506) (whose monumental brass survives in Cobham Church), a daughter of Edward Neville, his former guardian. In St. James Church, Cooling, survives the brass of his daughter Faith Brooke (d. 21 September 1508), inscribed: "Pray for ye soule of Ffeyth Brooke late ye daught. of Sir John Brooke, Lord of Cobham, which Ffeyth decessed the XXI day of Septeb. ye yer of or. Lord MDVIII on whose soule Jhu have mcy."
caption: Brass of Faith Brooke (died 1508) a daughter of John Brooke, 7th Baron Cobham. St. James Church, Cooling
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