Reynold Cobham, 1st Baron Cobham of Sterborough

He was the son of Sir Reynold Cobham by Joan, the daughter and heir of William de Evere.

This Reynold was the third son of John de Cobham, by his second wife Joan Neville, he married firstly Maud the daughter of William Fitzbenedict.

By 1334 he was a knight in the household of King Edward III and fought in the Scottish campaign against David de Bruce and then on the continent in the Low Countries and Brittany.

In 1346 he was in the force under Edward III that attacked France, fighting at the Battle of Crécy and the protracted but eventually successful Siege of Calais.

In 1355 he served under the Edward the Black Prince in Aquitaine, taking part in his march to the Loire and his victory at the Battle of Poitiers, where he was credited by the French historian Jean Froissart with the slaying of the French knight Geoffroi de Charny.