Sir John Oldcastle COBHAM

   Another name for John was COBHAM Sir.

   Ancestral File Number: 9G72-NP.

   General Notes:

Sir COBHAM.

BOOKS
The Political History of England, 1377-1485, Vol IV, C Oman, 1906, AMS Press, New York, p234:
"[1413] There was no doubt as to the person at whom his first blow must be levelled; he would start with the greatest of the heretics- the only one of them who sat in the house of lords- Sir John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham, whom we have already heard of as one of the commanders of the army that went ot France in 1411. He had married as his second wife a great heiress, Joan, the grand-daughter of John Lord Cobham, and possessed her strong castle of Colling and her broad estates in Kent. Oldcastle was not merely an accomplished knight, but also- a rare phenomenon amonglaymen in the early fifteenth century- a student and a man of learning. He was not merely one of those Lollards who `babbled the Bible day and night,' as the contemporary satirist complained, but had read the fathers and the works of Aristotle. His remarkable letter to the Bohemian inquirers, who wrote in 1410 for information as to Wycliffe's life and doctrines, is written in an excellent style, and argues wide controversial knowledge of all the debated questions of the day. The writer quotes Isidore, Chrysostom, and Augustine to back some of Wycliffe's points. Long immunity from persecution had made him contemptuous of the archbishop's oft-repeated threats, and he frequently entertained the preachers of his sect, both athis ancestral seat in Herefordshire and at his wife's castle in Kent."
p267: "[1417]...Oldcastle was surprised in one of his lurking places in the Welsh march by Lord Cherlton of Powys. He and his retainers offered resistance, and he wasonly captured after had wounded several of his assailants, and had been badly hurt himself. He was carried to London in a horse litter, and exhibited before parliament, which chanced to be sitting at the moment of his arrival on December 14. The records of his old condemnations for treason and heresy were read, and he was asked whether he had any reason to show why he sould not be put to death. He replied by delivering an address couched in scriptural phraseology, contrasting the mercy of man with the mercy of God, and when Bedford bade him speak to the point, exclaimed, `that it was to hism but a thing of small moment to be judged by men at an earthly tribunal, since God's justice was on his side.' Then turning to his acusers he told them `in a haughty and arrogant manner' that they had no authority over him; they were the tools of a usurper, and his liege lord King Richard II, was still alive in Scotland. Bedford would listen to nothing more, and the prisonerwas condemned to be hung as a traitor and then burnt as a heretic. The sentence was carried out on the same day, December 14, and he perished at Smithfield, defiant to the last, and muttering something about the resurrection of the just, whichdull hearers tristed into a statement that he hoped to rise again on the third day like his Master Christ."

The Oxford History of England The Fifteenth Century 1399-1485, E F Jacob, Oxford Univ Press, p7:
"...Outside London, Henry [of Derby's] main strength in the south and west proved, apart from the commoner Sir John Pelham, to be Lord Camoys in Sussex, and, when he returned from Guernsey, Lord Cobham in Kent..."

ANCESTRAL FILE
Ancestral File Ver 4.10 9G72-NP John COBHAM [Sir].

   Marriage Information:

John married Katharine BONVILLE, daughter of William De BONVILLE, Sr and Margaret D'AUMARLE, in 1376. (Katharine BONVILLE was born about 1367 in Chewton, Somersetshire, England and died on 1 Aug 1416.)

   Marriage Information:

John also married Joan COBHAM.