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NameSir George Brooke Lord Cobham of Kent 
[60, Cobham art, Vol III, pp. 347-8], [60, Northampton article, Vol IX, p. 672], [56, Surrey of 1530-1620, pub Harleian 1899, Norbury p. 221], [77, p. 37], [60, Bray art, Vol II, p. 287]
[60, Cobham art, Vol III, pp. 347-8], [60, Northampton article, Vol IX, p. 672], [56, Surrey of 1530-1620, pub Harleian 1899, Norbury p. 221], [77, p. 37], [60, Bray art, Vol II, p. 287]Birthca 1497
Death29 Sep 1558
BurialSt Mary Magdalene Church, Cobham, Kent (magnificent tomb & MI)
General9th baron. Lt Gen. KG 323: c. 1549; N 17.
FatherSir Thomas Brooke Lord Cobham of Kent (-1529)
MotherDorothy Heydon
Spouses
Notes for Sir George Brooke Lord Cobham of Kent
Left the estates in his father's will, subject to one or two conditions.
Mon Inscripts notes for Sir George Brooke Lord Cobham of Kent
On his tomb at Cobham church, Kent:
“The most honourable and illustrious gentleman George Brook. He was titled Lord Cobham on the strength of his possession of the town of Cobham. And the most excellent gentleman was for some years Governor of Calais bein admitted into the most splendid Order of the Knights of St George. Not only did he enjoy the most outstanding eminence of honour and of family, but he also had an excellent disposition and a mind embellished by every kind of merit. In war he was a most outstanding leader, and in peace a most wise councillor of the princes in whose times he lived, being singularly pleasing to his fellow citizens of Kent, amongst whom he lived. He was especially dear to the whole state, and most famous and beloved on account of the glory of the honours and virtues. And all these qualities in him were even more splendid because he had undertaken the profession and defence of the gospel, and maintained the same right up to his final breath. And when that most noble gentleman, loyal servant of God, and excellent citizen of his fatherland had reached a ripe old age, in his sixty-second year and burning with the heat of the fever, he died on September 29th in the year 1558. At his departure the many children of foremost excellence whom he left behind, his friends, colleagues and indeed the whole state experienced a great and fitting grief. But then Sir William Brooke, called Lord Cobham by the former title of his family, son and most benevolent heir of George his father dedicated this monument to the memory of George his most dear father in the year 1561, the third year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth.”
From “The Seaxe”, newslatter of the Middlesex Heraldry Society, February 2009.
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“The most honourable and illustrious gentleman George Brook. He was titled Lord Cobham on the strength of his possession of the town of Cobham. And the most excellent gentleman was for some years Governor of Calais bein admitted into the most splendid Order of the Knights of St George. Not only did he enjoy the most outstanding eminence of honour and of family, but he also had an excellent disposition and a mind embellished by every kind of merit. In war he was a most outstanding leader, and in peace a most wise councillor of the princes in whose times he lived, being singularly pleasing to his fellow citizens of Kent, amongst whom he lived. He was especially dear to the whole state, and most famous and beloved on account of the glory of the honours and virtues. And all these qualities in him were even more splendid because he had undertaken the profession and defence of the gospel, and maintained the same right up to his final breath. And when that most noble gentleman, loyal servant of God, and excellent citizen of his fatherland had reached a ripe old age, in his sixty-second year and burning with the heat of the fever, he died on September 29th in the year 1558. At his departure the many children of foremost excellence whom he left behind, his friends, colleagues and indeed the whole state experienced a great and fitting grief. But then Sir William Brooke, called Lord Cobham by the former title of his family, son and most benevolent heir of George his father dedicated this monument to the memory of George his most dear father in the year 1561, the third year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth.”
From “The Seaxe”, newslatter of the Middlesex Heraldry Society, February 2009.
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