George Brooke, 9th Baron Cobham

Detail of effigies of George Brooke, 9th Baron Cobham, and of his wife Anne Bray, St. Mary Magdalene's Church, Cobham, Kent. Anne displays on her chest the two coats of arms of Bray: Argent, a chevron between three eagle's claws erased sable (centre) and Gules, three bends vair (on her left side)

Sons William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham (1 November 1527 – 6 March 1597), eldest son and heir, who married firstly, Dorothy Nevill, by whom he had one daughter, and secondly in 1560, Frances Newton, a Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth I, by whom he had seven children. George Brooke (27 January 1533 – 1570), who married Christian or Christiana Duke, only daughter and sole heiress (of his unsettled lands) of Richard Duke (c. 1515 – 1572), MP, of Otterton, Devon, by whom he had issue: Duke Brooke; Peter Brooke; Thomas Brooke (1533–1578), alias "Thomas Cobham", MP, married and had issue. John Brooke (22 April 1535 – 1594), alias "John Cobham", who before 1561 married Lady Alice Norton (alias Cobbe), widow of Sir John Norton of Northwood, Milton, Kent, without issue. Sir Henry Brooke (5 February 1537 or 1538 – c. 1591 or January 1592), who married Anne Sutton (d. circa January 1611 or 1612), a daughter of Sir Henry Sutton of Nottinghamshire, by whom he had issue: John Brooke, 1st Baron Cobham; Philippa Brooke (d. c. September 1613, buried at Stockeston, Leicestershire, on 28 September 1613), wife successively of Walter Calverley and Sir Thomas Burton, 1st Baronet; Ann Brooke, wife of Edward Evenden.

Daughters Dorothy Brooke (b. 1518); Elisabeth Brooke (25 June 1526 – 2 April 1565), who married (bigamously, as his second wife) William Parr, 1st Marquess of Northampton (only brother of Queen Katherine Parr, last of the six wives of king Henry VIII), while he was deemed still wedded to Anne Bourchier, 7th Baroness Bourchier, having obtained a legally incomplete divorce. Without issue. Having unsuccessfully consulted doctors in Antwerp, she died of breast cancer at the Blackfriars and was buried in nearby St. Paul's Cathedral in the City of London; Katherine Brooke (b. c. 1527), who married John Jerningham, by whom she had issue.

Death and burial He died on 29 September 1558, closely followed by his wife, Anne Bray, and was buried in the chancel of St. Mary Magdalene's Church, Cobham. His inquisition post mortem was held on 20 January 1559 and his will, dated 13 January 1557/1558, was proved on 6 December 1560. He was succeeded by his eldest son, William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham.