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Sir Reginald Raybrok
1408
Church of St Mary Magdalene, Cobham, Kent, England
Artifact Identification Brass Rubbing: Sir Reginald Braybrook (1982.05.0133)
Classification Communications Artifacts : Documentary Artifacts : Graphic Documents
Artist/Maker Kathleen H. Cairns.
Geographic Location Europe, West; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, England; Kent; Cobham
From the catalogue, An Exhibition of Medieval Brass Rubbings by Kathleen H. Cairns. "Sir Reginald Braybrook, 1405, second husband of Lady Joan de Cobham, heir of the founder of the Cobham family. In mixed plate and camail armour. Camail is chain mail worn to protect the head and neck. Braybrook died in Middleburg in Flanders. The single canopy is surmounted by the Holy Trinity. Notice the Holy Spirit, the Dove, not sitting on the Cross but flying, proceeding from the Father and the Son. His sons Reginald and Robert are on two pedestals.
INSCRIPTION: Here lies Sir Reginald Braybrook, Knight, son of Gerald Braybrook, Knight and husband of Dame Joan, Lady de Cobham, Daughter of John de Cobham, Founder of the college. He, Reginald, died at Middleburgh in Flanders on the 20th day at of the month of September A.D. 1405. May God have mercy on his soul Amen. Amen."
Norris, Craft, p. 115, suggests that since the inscription refers to Dame Joan
Cobham as heir to John de Cobham, founder, and since Sir John did not die until 1408,
the inscription must have been placed later. The brass, then, was probably engraved
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