Constituency Dates
Dover 1416 (Oct.), 1417, 1419, 1421 (May), 1421 (Dec.), 1422, 1423, 1431, 1435
Family and Education
prob. s. of Robert Braban of Dover.
Offices Held

Dep. mayor, Dover July 1418, Aug. 1421, Oct. 1423, Aug. 1425; jurat Sept. 1421–2, 1424 – 25, 1426 – 27, 1428 – 30, 1432 – 33, 1437 – 38, 1439 – 42; dep. bailiff Aug. 1423; mayor Sept. 1425–6, 1427 – 28, 1433 – 36.

Cinque Ports’ bailiff at Yarmouth Sept. – Nov. 1413, 1419.

Address
Main residence: Dover, Kent.
biography text

A little more may be added to the earlier biography.1 The Commons 1386-1421, ii. 324. In 1433, as one of the keepers of the passage between Dover and Calais, Braban was rewarded for organizing the transport of the duke of Gloucester and other lords of the king’s council to France.2 E403/709, m. 7. As a freeman of the Cinque Ports he was able to claim exemption from parliamentary subsidies on property in Bewsborough hundred in 1416 and in Newchurch hundred in 1434.3 E179/124/88, rot. 7; 234/2.

Author
D.I.G.
Volume
Commons 1422-1461
Notes
  • 1. The Commons 1386-1421, ii. 324.
  • 2. E403/709, m. 7.
  • 3. E179/124/88, rot. 7; 234/2.