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Bernard Brocas (soldier and MP)

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but when Joan said she loved Edward, he decided to marry her himself. As compensation, he found Brocas another great heiress, Mary des Roches, a kinswoman of
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Senior (1330–1395) was a prominent commander in the English army during King
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there. It has been claimed that he captured and chopped off the head of a
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Brocas died on 20 September 1395 and was buried in St Edmund's Chapel in
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He married three times and had at least five children, amongst them, Sir
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for 1382 and married Katharine, widow of Hugh Tyrell. Brocas was MP for
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