P0316

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Surname	Cobham
First name	John
Nickname
Dating	1367?
Location	Cobham
Life dates	Birth: 1320, England Death: Jan. 10, 1408, Wiltshire, England
Title	Sir, Knight, 3rd Lord Cobham, of Colling, Cobham, Beckley in Chalk, Pole in Southfleet, Kent
Close relatives	FATHER - John Cobham (1290 - 1355) mother - Joan de Beauchamp (d. Aft 1343) wife - (1342) Margaret de Courtenay (d. 2 Aug 1385)(____ - 1395), daughter of Hugh de Courtenay and Margaret de Bohun daughter - Joan (____ - 1393), who would marry Sir John de la Pole
Type of the object	Brass, Cenotaph
Place of manufacturing (place of burial)	St Mary Magdalene New Churchyard, Cobham, but a plague remains at Grey Friars, London
Place of exposition	St Mary Magdalene, Cobham, Kent, England
Date of manufacturing
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Inscription in French: The Founder of this place once called Cobham was made and formed out of the dust of the earth and into the earth and to the earth he has again returned. May the Holy Trinity have mercy on his soul."

He was founder of the College, 1362, for five priests to say daily masses for the response of the souls of his ancestors

John was summoned to Parliament as Johanni de Cobham de Kent an d as Johanni de Cobham chivaler. He went on several French expeditions, made Banneret in 1370, founded the college of Cobham in 1362, became the ambassador to Rome in 1367, appointed a Trier of Petitions in Parliament in 1377.
John received a permit to crenellate by Richard II in 1381, and built the Cooling Castle.

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