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Edward Brooke, 6th Baron Cobham
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Edward Brooke, 6th Baron Cobham

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Edward Brooke, 6th Baron Cobham (of Kent) (died 6 June 1464) was a late medieval aristocrat.
His parents were Sir Thomas Brooke and Joan Braybroke, 5th Baroness Cobham.
He was a Member of Parliament for Somerset in 1442, the same year he succeeded to his mother's title. An ardent supporter of Richard Duke of York, he fought on the Yorkist side at the First Battle of St Albans on 23 May 1455 and at the Battle of Northampton on 10 July 1460.
He married Elizabeth Touchet, born c. 1433, daughter of James Touchet, 5th Baron Audley and second wife Eleanor de Holland, and had at least two children, John Brooke, 7th Baron Cobham and Elizabeth Brooke, married to Robert Tanfield; their son, also named Robert Tanfield, born in 1461, married Catherine Nevill, born before 1473, daughter of Edward Nevill, 1st Baron Bergavenny and second wife Katherine Howard, and had issue. His widow remarried Christopher Worsley, before 8 November 1464.

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