Robert Braybrooke

Robert Braybrooke (1336/7-1404) was a medieval cleric and King's Secretary. He was Dean of Salisbury and Bishop of London.

Biography Braybrooke was the son of Sir Gerard de Braybooke of Castle Ashby, MP for Northampton of Horsenden, Buckinghamshire & Colmworth, Bedfordshire and his wife, Isabella, the daughter of Sir Roger Dakeny of Clophill.

King's Secretary Braybrooke was a trained lawyer who became the first keeper of the King' signet ring on the accession of the ten-year-old Richard II to the English throne in July 1377. Braybrooke thus became the first King's Secretary using this signet ring. Despite bearing the imprint of the Great Seal, these pardon's were withdrawn. During the few years in which Braybrooke was the King's Secretary, most of the documents endorsed by the King's Signet Ring, most were later further endorsed by the Privy Seal, before being issued with the Great Seal in Chancery.

Braybrooke was named Lord Chancellor of England on 20 September 1382 and was out of the office by 11 July 1383.

Braybrooke accompanied King Richard II to Ireland in 1394 and was Lord Chancellor of Ireland for six months in 1397.

Braybrooke died on 28 August 1404,