Biography of Bernard Brocas 1354-1400
After 1330 [his father] Bernard Brocas and [his mother] Agnes Vavasour (age 2) were married. They were subsequently divorced.
Around 1354 Bernard Brocas was born to Bernard Brocas (age 24) and Agnes Vavasour (age 26).
Before 1380 Bernard Brocas (age 26) and Joan Middleton or Banbury were married.
Before 1380 [his father] Bernard Brocas (age 50) and [his step-mother] Mary des Roches (age 44) were married.
Before 1395 [his father] Bernard Brocas (age 65) and [his step-mother] Katharine de la Plaunche (age 54) were married.
On 20 Sep 1395 [his father] Bernard Brocas (age 65) died. He was buried at the Chapel of St Edmund, Westminster Abbey [Map] in Westminster Abbey.
On 17 Dec 1399 the conspirators met at Abbey House Westminster Abbey [Map] including Thomas Blount (age 47), Thomas Despencer 1st Earl Gloucester (age 26), Thomas Holland 1st Duke Surrey (age 25), John Holland 1st Duke Exeter (age 47), Ralph Lumley 1st Baron Lumley (age 39), John Montagu 3rd Earl Salisbury (age 49), Edward York 2nd Duke of York 1st Duke Albemarle (age 26), Bernard Brocas (age 45). They plotted to capture King Henry IV of England (age 32) at a Tournament in Windsor [Map] on the Feast of Epiphany hence the Epiphany Rising.
On 07 Jan 1400 at Cirencester, Gloucestershire [Map] Ralph Lumley 1st Baron Lumley (age 40) was beheaded by the townspeople following an unsuccessful attempt to seize the town. Baron Lumley forfeit.
Thomas Holland 1st Duke Surrey (age 26) was beheaded. He had to forfeit the honours and estates he had gained after the arrests of Gloucester and Arundel: Duke Surrey extinct. He retained those he had received before: His brother Edmund Holland 4th Earl Kent (age 16) succeeded 4th Earl Kent, 3rd Baron Holand, 8th Baron Wake of Liddell.
John Montagu 3rd Earl Salisbury (age 50) was captured, tried and beheaded. Earl Salisbury, Baron Montagu, Baron Montagu forfeit.
Bernard Brocas (age 46) was captured.
On 04 Feb 1400 Bernard Brocas (age 46) was tried, and condemned to death, by Thomas Fitzalan 10th Earl Surrey 12th Earl Arundel (age 18) at Tower of London [Map] for his role in the Epiphany Rising having been captured in Cirencester, Gloucestershire [Map].
On 05 Feb 1400 Bernard Brocas (age 46) was beheaded at Tyburn [Map]. He was buried at the Chapel of St Edmund, Westminster Abbey [Map].
In 1429 [his former wife] Joan Middleton or Banbury died.
Effigy of Sir Bernard Brocas. Monument of Bernard Brocas. These two illustrations don't appear to have any text about them?
Kings Wessex: Great x 15 Grand Son of King Edward "Elder" of the Anglo Saxons
Kings England: Great x 9 Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Kings Franks: Great x 17 Grand Son of Louis "Pious" King Aquitaine I King Franks
Kings France: Great x 12 Grand Son of Robert "Pious" II King France
GrandFather: John Brocas of Clewer in Berkshire
Father: Bernard Brocas
Bernard Brocas 9 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Vavasour
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Vavasour
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Vavasour 1st Baron Vavasour
Great x 1 Grandfather: Henry Vavasour
GrandFather: Henry Vavasour 7 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Mowbray 6th Baron Thirsk
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Mowbray 4 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Avice D'Aubigny Baroness Okehampton Baroness Mowbray
3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Mowbray 5 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Constance Mowbray 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Mother: Agnes Vavasour 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Henry Fitzhugh 1st Baron Fitzhugh 
GrandMother: Amabel Fitzhugh Baroness Vavasour