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From: William Addams Reitwiesner <>
Subject: Re: Mary Countess of Norfolk
Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 02:51:23 GMT


Paul Mackenzie <> wrote:

>I am interested in the family of Mary Countess of Norfolk and Marshall of
England.
>In particular who were brothers and who was her father. According to Cockayne
she was a
>de Brewes and she first married Ralph Cobham who died in 1325. She had a son
named John
>Cobham by her first marriage. She married secondly Thomas de Brotherton, a
younger
>brother of King Edward 11. Thomas died in 1338 and she died in 1361. Cockayne
states
>that she was the sister of Thomas de Brewes and daughter of Sir Piers de
Brewes of
>Tetbury. He cites the follwing references Cal. Inq. p.m. vol viii no 529 page
377 and
>Cott. MS., Jul, C vii, fo. 174. I have seen the inq. p.m. which does state
that her
>brother was Thomas de Brewes, but no reference is made to Sir Piers de Brewes.
>Unfortunately I have not been able to obtain the other reference.
>
>I was wondering, if anyone was aware of any books or references which mention
Mary or
>her husband Thomas de Brotherton.

Her brother was the Thomas de Brewes who is mentioned in the second
edition of Cokayne's (not Cockayne's) *Complete Peerage*, vol. II, p.
308. Gerald Paget, *An Official Genealogical and Heraldic Baronage of
England*, covers this Brewes family as family number 92. Another
citation that Mary was a sister of Thomas is "Esch 18 Edw 3 no 49",
and for her death in 1362 (not 1361) is "Esch 36 Edw 3 p 2 no 9". By
the way, in the Cobham article in Cokayne (vol. III, p. 338), Mary is
mentioned without any reference to her background.

William Addams Reitwiesner

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