Thomas Brocket (1405 – 1477)
In 1440 the house was rebuilt and renamed Brocket Hall.
Thomas Brocket marries Elizabeth Ashe (1397 – 1477) Son Edward Brocket (1425 – 1488)
In 1440 the house was rebuilt and renamed Brocket Hall.
Thomas Brocket second marriage in 1404 to Dionice Sampson (1371- 1437) Son Thomas Brocket (1405 – 1477)
About Sir Thomas Brocket, MP
Sir Thomas of Brocket Hall was born about 1405. He was the son of Thomas Brocket and wife Dionice Sampson. Thomas was Member of Parliament for County of Hertfordshire in 1435. He was patron of the Rectory of Graveley from June 1432 until his death.
Thomas married Elizabeth Ashe. Dame Elizabeth as she was known, was heir to the manor of Symonds Hide at Bishops Hatfield which became the Brocket Hall in Hertfordshire. They had no children. The rights to the manor passed to his brother Edward.
From the time of Dame Elizabeth's marriage to Thomas forward, there were TWO Brocket Halls, one in Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire and the original one in Appleton, Yorkshire.
Elizabeth Ashe (1397 – 1477)
Birthplace: 1397 Symonds Hide, Bishops Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England
Death: Died 1477 in Brocket Hall,Hertfordshire,England?
Elizabeth owned the Manors of Symondeshide and Bengeho, and Almsho and 262 acres in Langley
Dionice Sampson (1371- 1437)Born 1371 Unknown Died 1437 in Bolton Percy, Yorkshire, England. Dionice is described as one of the daughters and heiress to Lord Fauconbrege.
While Dionice did not descend from that Lord Fauconberg, she did indeed descend from a younger Fauconberg line whose heiress had married a Sampson, 4 generations before Dionice.
The Sampsons had been county and city gentry, the Fauconbergs nobility. To gild the lily, Dionice was not just given the arms of 1 noble family—Fauconberg—but also of Neville, who were moreover related to royalty.
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New Brocket Hall
The estate was sold to Sir Matthew Lamb in 1746 by Thomas Wiinnington . This era was an eventful time Sir Matthew engaged one of the leading architects of the day Sir James Paine and asked him to build a new Brocket hall and Paine did just that. Sir Matthew died around 1765.
James Paine (1717–1789) was an English architect.Essentially a Palladian, early in his career he was Clerk of Works at Nostell Priory, and worked on many other projects in the area including Heath House in the village of Heath in between Nostell Priory and Wakefield.From the 1750s, he had his own practice, and designed many villas, usually consisting of a central building, often with a fine staircase, and two symmetrical wings.
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Early Days
LAround this area had several manors,Symonshyde, Benstead, Heron, and Chewells around the time of Henry III (1207 to 1272 ) these mannors merge and become ‘Watershyppes’Early evidence suggests the house dates back to 1239 and was owned by Simon Fitz Ade. They were also known as FitzSymon.
The Families of Brocket Hall
Early evidence suggests the house dates back to 1239 and was owned by Simon Fitz Ade. They were also known as FitzSymon.
Thomas Lord Fauconberg born 1341 and married to Joan Nevile born 1363 – daughter Joan De Fauconberg Born 1367 :
The most famous of the Brocket family was Sir John Brocket, who married Helen, daughter of Sir Rowland Lytton of Knebworth in 1558 . Sir John Brocket and was high sheriff of Hertfordshire in 1553. Sir John was a close ally of Elizabeth 1st,. Elizabeth was under house arrest at nearby Hatfield house.
The estate was sold to Sir Matthew Lamb in 1746 by Thomas Wiinnington . This era was an eventful time Sir Matthew engaged one of the leading architects of the day Sir James Paine and asked him to build a new Brocket hall and Paine did just that. Sir Matthew died around 1765.
Stephens retired to England. He was created a Baronet, of Montreal in the Province of Quebec in the Dominion of Canada, in 1886, and raised to the peerage as Baron Mount Stephen, of Mount Stephen in the Province of British Columbia and Dominion of Canada
On the death of Lord Mount Stephen in 1921 the house was put up for sale and bought in 1923 by Sir Charles Nall –Cain of the Node Codicote. Sir Charles took the title ‘Lord Brocket ‘ in 1933 and on his death in the following year the estate passed onto his only son Arthur Ronald Nall- Cain (1904 – 1966) Lord Brocket.