George Brooke, 9th Baron Cobham

George Brooke, 9th Baron Cobham (c. 1497 – 29 September 1558) lord of the Manor of Cobham, Kent and of Cooling Castle, Kent, was an English peer, soldier and magnate, who participated in the political turmoil following the death of King Henry VIII.

[2] The 3rd Baron Bergavenny was the youngest son of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland and his second wife, Lady Joan Beaufort, daughter of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster's third marriage and half-sister of King Henry IV.

[3] Norfolk was an ancestor to the two wives of Henry VIII that were beheaded, Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard.

In July 1523, after the taking or Morlaix, he was invested as a Knight by the Earl of Surrey and succeeded in his father's title in November 1529.

In July 1523 after the taking of Morlaix, he was invested as a Knight by Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey and succeeded to his father's title in November 1529.

At home in Kent, he fulfilled his feudal duties, serving as Justice of the Peace for the county.

In 1544, he occupied a high position in the English army that invaded Scotland; later that year, he was appointed commanding officer of English-controlled Calais, a personal possession of the king.

After Edward's death, Brooke supported the attempt by John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland to place his daughter-in-law Lady Jane Grey on the throne.

Detail of effigies of George Brooke, 9th Baron Cobham, and of his wife Anne Bray, St. Mary Magdalene's Church, Cobham, Kent. Anne displays on her chest the two coats of arms of Bray: Argent, a chevron between three eagle's claws erased sable (centre) and Gules, three bends vair (on her left side) [ 1 ]
Monument and effigy of George Brooke, 9th Baron Cobham, and of his wife Anne Bray, St. Mary Magdalene's Church, Cobham, Kent. On his robe are painted the arms of St. Amand: Or fretty sable, on a chief of the second three plates [ 1 ]
Arms of Brooke, Baron Cobham "of Kent": Gules, on a chevron argent a lion rampant sable crowned or
Quartered arms of Sir George Brooke, 9th Baron Cobham, KG
Arms of Braye: Argent, a chevron between three eagle's legs erased sable , quartered by the couple's descendants