Sir Gerard Braybrooke Knight
- Born: Abt 1332, Colmworth, Bedford, Bedfordshire, England
- Marriage: Isabel de Meynell 599
- Died: 1 Feb 1403, England about age 71 599
 Noted events in his life were:
• Background Information. 141
John le Scrope married, before 24 August 1418, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Chaworth, of Wiverton, Notts, by his 1st wife, of whom she was the only child and heir, Nicole, daughter and heir of Sir Gerard Braybroke (Sheriff of Essex and Herts, 5 November 1406).
~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. XI, p. 568
• Background Information. 599
Sir Gerard Braybrook married, as his first wife, Marget de Longeville, daughter and heiress of John de Longeville. Sire Gerard and Margaret had two sons, Gerard & Reginald, and one daughter, Joan. Sir Gerard Braybrook served as esquire to Edward "the Blace Prince" in Gascon (1355-1357) and in Spain (1367) at the Battle of Nájera.
Sire Gerard married a second time to Isabel de Meynell, widow of both Sir Thomas de Shirley and Sir John de Woodhull. Isabel was the daughter of Sir Hugh de Meynell, of Langley Meynell, Kirk Langley, Durbyshire and his second wife, Alice, daughter of Sir Nicholas de Audley. Sir Gerard and Isabella had one son, Ralph, and one daughter Nichole.
~Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, p. 378
• Web Reference: The History of Parliament entry on Sor Gerald Braybrooke of Comworth.
Gerard married Isabel de Meynell, daughter of Sir Hugh Meynell Knight and Alice Audley.599 (Isabel de Meynell died on 25 Apr 1392 in England 599 and was buried in Colmworth, Beadford, Bedfordshire, England 599.)
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