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Bernard Brocas
Sir Bernard Brocas, also Barnard Brocas Senior (1330–1395) was a prominent commander in the English army during King Edward III's French campaigns of the Hundred Years War. He was also a close friend of the Black Prince and William of Wykeham.
Brocas was the son of Sir John Brocas of Clewer in Berkshire, a Master of the King's Horse. He grew up with the Black Prince at Windsor Castle, at a time of rebuilding by the Royal architect William of Wykeham. After a scandalous first marriage, the Prince intended Brocas to marry his cousin, Joan, the Fair Maid of Kent 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 Peter des Roches, Bishop of Winchester.
Brocas fought with Edward at the Battles of Poitiers, Crécy and Nájera. After the Peace of Bretigny, he helped to settle Aquitaine and was appointed Constable there. It has been claimed that he captured and chopped off the head of a King of Morocco, but the story seems to be apocryphal.
Bernard Brocas (disambiguation)
Bernard Brocas (1330–1395) was an army commander and MP.
Bernard Brocas may also refer to many other Barnard or Bernard Brocas among his descendants.
Bernard Brocas (rebel)
Sir Bernard Brocas or Barnard Brocas (died 5 February 1400) was an English landowner and knight who was executed for his part in the Epiphany Rising.
He was the eldest son of Sir Bernard Brocas (1330–1395) of Clewer, now part of Windsor, in Berkshire. He was married at a young age to Joan, the daughter of Sir Thomas Middleton (or Gilbert Banbury of Holybourne). They lived at Beaurepaire at Sherborne St John in Hampshire and had six children.
His father was a close friend of the Black Prince and the younger Bernard would have been acquainted as a child with the future Richard II. By 1390 he had entered the king's service and been knighted. In 1395 he inherited his father's estates but remained living in Beaurepaire. He also inherited the hereditary office of Master of the King's Buckhounds.
In 1400, after King Richard had been deposed by Henry IV, Brocas joined in a conspiracy known as the Epiphany Rising to kill King Henry and restore Richard to the throne. The plot was foiled when details were leaked and the conspirators were chased westwards from Windsor Castle by an armed force. Brocas was captured in Cirencester and sent to the Tower of London. He was tried for treason, with three others, by Thomas FitzAlan, 12th Earl of Arundel and condemned to death. He was beheaded at Tyburn (or possibly Cheapside) on 5 February 1400, and buried in the Franciscan Friary Church in London.
Brocas
Brocas is a commune in the Landes department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.
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Brocas (disambiguation)
Brocas is a French commune.
Brocas may also refer to:
Many members of the Anglo-French Brocas family in Beaurepaire, Hampshire:
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Brocas, Bernard Filmography
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1990, role: actor , character name: Priest
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1990, role: actor , character name: Le curé
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1982, role: actor , character name: Oreste
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1982, role: actor , character name: Philippe
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1975, role: actor , character name: Serusier
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1975, role: actor , character name: Mozart
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1974, role: actor
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1974, role: actor
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1973, role: actor , character name: Georges Redoux
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1973, role: actor , character name: Esmond
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1973, role: actor , character name: Eraste
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1973, role: actor , character name: Renzo
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1968, role: actor
