2nd Baron Mowbray John de Mowbray

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John de Mowbray, 2nd baron, summoned to parliament from 26 August, 1307, to 5 August, 1320. This nobleman, during his minority, was actively engaged in the Scottish wars of King Edward I, and had livery of all his lands before he attained majority in consideration of those services. In the 6th Edward II [1313], being then sheriff of Yorkshire and governor of the city of York, he had command from the king to seize upon Henry de Percy, then a great baron in the north, in consequence of that nobleman suffering Piers de Gaveston, Earl of Cornwall, to escape from Scarborough Castle in which he had undertaken to keep him in safety. The next year Lord Mowbray was in another expedition into Scotland, and he was then constituted one of the wardens of the marches towards that kingdom. In the 11th of the same reign [1318], he was made governor of Malton and Scarborough Castles, in Yorkshire, and the following year he was once more in Scotland, invested with authority to receive into protection all who should submit to King Edward, but afterwards taking part in the insurrection of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, he was made prisoner with that nobleman and others at the battle of Boroughbridge and immediately hanged at York, anno 1321, when his lands were seized by the crown and Aliva, his widow, with her son, imprisoned in the Tower of London. This lady, who was dau. and co-heir of William de Braose, Lord Braose, of Gower, was compelled, in order to obtain some alleviation of her unhappy situation, to confer several manors of her own inheritance upon Hugh le Despencer, Earl of Winchester. In the next reign, however, she obtained from the crown a confirmation of Gowerland, in Wales, to herself and the heirs of her body by her deceased husband, with remainder to Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Essex, and his heirs. Lady Mowbray m. 2ndly, Sir R. de Peshale, Knt., and d. in the 5th Edward III [1332]. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 387, Mowbray, Earls of Nottingham, Dukes of Norfolk, Earls-Marshal, Earls of Warren and Surrey]

Died:
hanged

Family/Spouse: Aline de Braose. Aline (daughter of Baron of Braose William VI de Braose and Elizabeth de Sully) was born about 1286 in Gower, Glamorganshire, Wales; died before 20 Jul 1331 in Swansea, Glamorganshire, Wales. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Joan Plantagenet about 28 Feb 1326/27. Joan (daughter of Henry Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Lancaster and Maud de Chaworth) was born in 1306 in Grismond Castle, Monmouth, England; died on 7 Jul 1349 in Bur Byland Abbey, Yorks, Land, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Elizabeth de Segrave, 5th Baroness Segrave in 1349. Elizabeth (daughter of John de Seagrave, 4th Baron Segrave and Margaret Plantagenet, Duchess of Norfolk) was born on 25 Oct 1338; died before 1368. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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On 10 February 1382, he succeeded his brother John as 6th Baron Mowbray and 7th Baron Segrave, and soon afterwards was created Earl of Nottingham, a title that had also been created for his elder brother. Three years later he was appointed Earl Marshal of England, and in that capacity he fought against the Scots and then against the French.

Lord Nottingham was one of the Lords Appellant to King Richard II who deposed some of King Richard's court favorites in 1387. The King's uncle, Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, was imprisoned at Calais, where Nottingham was Captain. When Gloucester was killed in 1397, it was probably at the King's orders and probably with Nottingham's involvement. A few weeks later he was created Duke of Norfolk, though his aged grandmother, the Duchess of Norfolk, was still alive. When she died the next year he also became 3rd Earl of Norfolk.

Later, in 1398, Norfolk quarrelled with Henry of Bolingbroke, 1st Duke of Hereford (later King Henry IV), apparently due to mutual suspicions stemming from their roles in the conspiracy against the Duke of Gloucester. The King banished them both. After Hereford returned and usurped the throne, Norfolk was stripped of the Dukedom of Norfolk, though he retained his other titles. He died of the plague in Venice, on 22 September 1399.

The matter of Norfolk's quarrel and subsequent banishment is depicted at the beginning of Shakespeare's Richard II.

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Family/Spouse: Elizabeth FitzAlan. Elizabeth (daughter of 11th Earl of Arundel Richard FitzAlan and Elizabeth de Bohun) was born about 1366 in Derbyshire, England; died on 8 Jul 1425 in Venice, Venezia, Veneto, Italy; was buried in Heveringham, York, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleanor married Robert (Roger) de la Warr in 1354/1405. Robert was born in 1329/1368; died in 1371/1449. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]