Braggadocio was founded
circa 1847. A post office called Braggadocio has been in operation since 1881. Possibly the community was named because a large share of the early settlers were braggarts, or after the knight and horse thief Sir Braggadoccio, in
Edmund Spenser's
The Faerie Queene. In 1927, an African-American man named
Will Sherod was
lynched in Braggadocio. On
April 2, 2006, an F3 tornado hit the town, causing two deaths, and on
December 10, 2021, an EF4 tornado struck the town, causing one death. ==References==