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Birth:          1296 of Orkesden and Eynesford, Kent, England
Death:          5 Oct 1361 
Cause of Death: plague
Burial:         Lingfield Church

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Reginald de Cobham, 1st Baron Cobham, KG (c.1295–1361) was a medieval English 
knight and diplomat.

Life[edit]

He was the son of Sir Reginald de Cobham by Joan, the daughter and heir of William 
de Evere. This Reginald was the second son of John de Cobham, by his first wife Joan 
the daughter of William Fitzbenedict. The family were based at Sterborough, Lingfield, 
Surrey.[1]

In his early life he was employed on diplomatic missions. 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 1342 he was 
summoned to the House of Lords as Lord Cobham of Sterborough.

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 1352 
he was invested as a Knight of the Garter and in 1353 appointed Captain of Calais, a 
position he held until his death. In 1355 he served under 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.[1]

Reginald married Joan Berkeley by whom he could claim to be related to the noble 
families of Sutton, Dudley, Beauchamp, De Despencer and Mortimer. The Cobham 
family, however, were well connected to the ruling families of England in their own 
right.

He died in 1361, probably of the plague, and was laid to rest in an impressive tomb in 
Lingfield church. He was succeeded by his son Reginald, the second Lord 
Sterborough.[1]

Parents
DE COBHAM Reginald (ABT 1251 - )
DE EVERE Joan (ABT 1265 - )

Siblings
DE COBHAM Reynold (1296 - 5 Oct 1361)

Marriage To DE BERKELEY Joan (ABT 1320 - 2 Oct 1369)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
DE BERKELEY Thomas "the Rich" (1293 - 27 Oct 1361)
DE MORTIMER Margaret (2 May 1304 - 5 May 1337)

Children by DE BERKELEY Joan ABT 1320 - 2 Oct 1369
DE COBHAM Joan (ABT 1340 - )

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