Born after in Cobham, Kent, England
Ancestors 
Daughter of Thomas Brooke
[uncertain]
and Dorothy (Heydon) Brooke
[uncertain]
Sister of
George Brooke KG, Elizabeth (Brooke) Warner, William Brooke, Thomas Brooke, Margaret (Brooke) Fogge, Henry Brooke and Faith (Brooke) Ockenden
Wife of
George Neville KG KB
— married
before 24 Jan 1530 in England
[children unknown]
Died
before age 31
in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales
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Biography
Mary Brooke, 2nd dau. of Thomas [Brooke], 8th Baron Cobham of Kent, by his first wife Dorothy Heydon, dau. of Sir Henry Heydon, of Baconsthorpe, by his wife Anne Boleyn. She m. as his 4th wife George Nevill, 3rd and 5th Baron Bergavenny, KG PC.[citation needed]
RA under WYAT V.5 p.410 says m 3 times: Robert Blagge; John Barrett, Richard Walden. Follows under CULPEPPER and FITZ HERBERT. Genealogics shows a son George Blagge. Wikitree is not currently following this forward so her descendants need to be added.
Research Notes
Disputed Parentage
McKeen suggests that the Mary Brooke who married George Neville was an unknown illegitimate child of the Brooke family.[1] In George's Will he refers to her as "mary Broke otherwise called Marye Cobham" and says "she hath been my servant ... and so I did accept her service that she has seemed unto me by such love and favour as I have borne her to have taken her my bedfellow in marriage". His will grants for the lives of her and her unborn child by him the manors of Whalesbeech, Beverington Randeviles [Rodmell Beverington] and Grymers, Sussex.[2]
This Mary is not mentioned as a daughter of Thomas Brooke in the Glover Pedigree.[3]
Sources
- ↑
McKeen biography:
"A Memory of Honour : The Life of William Brooke, Lord Cobham" by David McKeen. Salzburg Studies in English Literature under the direction of Professor Erwin A. Stürzl. Published by Salzburg : Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg, 1986. 2 volumes, 762 pages.
Available online with research credentials at Hathi Trust (accessed 28 January 2021) - ↑ Will of husband George Neville KG KB: See Free Space Page for citations and transcription.
- ↑
1571 Brooke Pedigree:
Emblazoned by Robert Glover, Somerset Herald
Cecil Papers, 225/1 (original not publicly available online)
CECIL PAPERS 225/1 at The Oxford Authorship Site (accessed 11 January 2021) Includes an excerpted version translated to modern English.
The Oxford Authorship Site (accessed 11 January 2021) The original illustrated tree with coats of arms.
- (A)bergavenny, Baron (E, 1450 - abeyant 1762) Cracroft's Peerage
- Royal Ancestry by Douglas Richardson Vol. I. p. 324
- BROOKE (B. Abergavenny) Tudor Place Mary Brooke
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Not impossible, but doesn't seem likely that a daughter of a peer, would first be his mistress and then wife. Or if this happened that there wouldn't be some comment (gossip, scandal) about it in a source somewhere?