Edward Brooke, Lord Cobham

Also known as: Edward Brooke lord Cobham · Family: House of York · Role: lord · First appears: Henry VI 44

Life events

• 1451 · Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York and his allies secretly planned to raise an army against the king's councillors.(Henry VI 44 · 📍 London)
  • With: Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York John Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick Thomas Courtenay, Earl of Devon Edmund Beaufort, Duke of Somerset
  • “After long deliberation and aduise taken, it was thought expedient, to kéepe their chéefe purpose secret; and that the duke should raise an armie of men, vnder a pretext to remooue diuerse councellors about the king, and to reuenge the manifest iniuries doone to the common-wealth by the same rulers. Of the which as principall, the duke of Summerset was namelie accused”

Henry VI 44

• friends with Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York “there to consult with his speciall fréends: as Iohn duke of Northfolke, Richard earle of Salisburie, and the lord Richard his sonne, which after was earle of Warwike; Thomas Courtneie earle of Deuonshire, and Edward Brooke lord Cobham”

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Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.