page_title: Sir Charles Blois, 1st Baronet
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Sir Charles Blois, 1st Baronet / Early life
caption_attribution_description: English: Cockfield Hall, Yoxford, Suffolk, England
context_page_description: Sir Charles Blois, 1st Baronet, of Grundisburgh Hall and Cockfield Hall, Yoxford, Suffolk, was a British Tory politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1695 and 1709.
context_section_description: Charles was the son of Sir William Blois, of Grundisburgh Hall and his first wife Martha Brooke (died 1657), daughter of Sir Robert Brooke (1572-1646) of Cockfield Hall and his wife Elizabeth. However as his mother died very soon after his birth, Charles's father remarried to Jane Barnardiston (daughter of Sir Nathaniel Barnardiston (1588-1653) of Kedington, Suffolk), who had previous been married to Charles's uncle John Brooke, brother of Martha. Jane was therefore the only mother that he knew. The principal heir to Cockfield Hall, his uncle Robert Brooke, died in 1669 in a bathing accident in the river Rhone in France. Charles's father Sir William Blois dying in 1676 (when Abigail Hodges, Sir William's sister, disputed the estate with Jane Blois, the relict), Charles married Mary Kemp, daughter of Sir Robert Kemp, 2nd Baronet, of Gissing Hall, Norfolk, on 11 May 1680. His grandmother Elizabeth Brooke (having a life interest in Cockfield Hall) died there in 1683, and his aunt Mary Brooke (like Charles, a co-heir to the younger Robert Brooke) lived down to 1693. Having been created baronet in 1686, Charles succeeded to Cockfield Hall in 1693 and made his principal home there.
caption: Cockfield Hall
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