Sir Bernard Brocas (c. 1354 – 5 February 1400) was an English knight, landowner and administrator who was executed for his part in the Epiphany Rising.
[1] Born about 1354 as the eldest son of Sir Bernard Brocas (1330–1395) of Clewer in Berkshire and his first wife Agnes Vavasour, his father was a close friend of Edward, the Black Prince.
Brocas was captured in Cirencester and sent to the Tower of London, where he was tried for treason, with three others, by Thomas FitzAlan, 12th Earl of Arundel and on 4 February condemned to death.
They lived at Beaurepaire in the parish of Sherborne St John in Hampshire and had six children, including Although a convicted traitor's goods and lands were forfeit to the Crown, Henry IV was not vindictive to the family.
Ten days after the execution, he let the widow Joan have her husband's goods and later that year the lands yielding an annual income of 300 pounds were granted to the elder son William.