The Genealogy of House Mowbray

  

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The Mowbray Family Tree

 

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The story of one family’s journey through two thousand years of British History

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The 83 family lines into which the family is divided. Meet the whole family and how the wider family is related

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House Mowbray

 

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The narrative History

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

William d’Aubigny

 

Lord of Aubigny

 

King’s Butler

 

Roger d'Aubigny

 

1st Earl of Arundel

 

Married Avice de Mowbray

Avice de Mowbray

 

Roger de Mowbray

 

Earl of Northumberland

Geoffrey de Montbray

 

A Norman nobleman, secular prelate, warrior and administrator

 

Bishop of Coutances from 1049 to 1093.

 

An adviser of William the Conqueror

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gundreda de Gournay

 

Died 1155

 

Daughter of Gerard de Gournay and his wife Edith de Warenne, and hence granddaughter of William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey

Nigel d’Aubigny

 

1070 to 21 November 1129

 

Founder of the House Mowbray

 

Married Matilda d’Aigle whose prior marriage to the disgraced and imprisoned Robert de Mowbray, Earl of Northumbria, had been annulled based on consanguinity. She brought her ex husband’s lordship of Montbray, Mowbray

 

Married Gundreda de Gournay in June 1138

 

 

 

 

Robert de Mowbray

 

Died 1125

 

Joined the 1088 rebellion against King William II on behalf of Robert Curthose, but was pardoned and later led the army that killed Malcolm III of Scotland at Alnwick

 

In 1095, he conspired to put Stephen of Aumale on the throne, was besieged by the king, and captured. As punishment, his marriage to Matilda d’Aigle was dissolved and his lands confiscated, given to the new husband of his former wife, while Mowbray was imprisoned for life and later became a monk

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Roger I de Mowbray

 

1120 to 1188

 

On his father's death in 1129 he became a ward of the crown.[3] Based at Thirsk with his mother, on reaching his majority in 1138, he took title to the lands awarded to his father by Henry I both in Normandy including Montbray, from which he would adopt his surname

 

Married Alice de Gant widow of Ilbert de Lacy and daughter of Walter de Gant

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nigel (“Nele”) de Mowbray

 

1146 to 1191

 

Married Mabel de Clare in about 1170

 

Robert de Mowbray

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

William de Mowbray

 

1173 to 1224

 

Married Avice Aubigny

 

Philip de Mowbray

 

Ancestor of the Scottish Mowbrays of Barnbougle

Robert de Mowbray

 

 

Roger de Mowbray

 

Ancestor of the Mowbrays of Kirklington

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nele (Nigel) de Mowbray

 

C 1203 to 1230

 

Married Matilda Camville

Maud de Mowbray

 

1212 to c 1238

 

Married John Hansard

 

Roger II de Mowbray

 

1210 to 1266

 

Baron of Thirsk

 

After 13 April 1237 (the date of their marriage grant) he married the daughter of Thomas de Furnival of Worksop and Bertha de Ferrers

 

By 1257 he had married Maud de Beauchamp, eldest daughter of Sir William de Beauchamp

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Joan de Mowbray

 

Elizabeth de Mowbray

 

With Maud

 

Roger III de Mowbray

 

1254 to 21 November 1297

 

1st Baron Mowbray

 

Married Rose de Clare, after 15 July 1270. She was the daughter of Sir Richard de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

John I de Mowbray

 

1286 to 1322

 

2nd Baron Mowbray

 

Wardship was purchased by William de Braose, the Lord of Gower

 

Married Aline de Braose in about 1298 in Swansea

 

Alexander de Mowbray

 

Lived in Scotland

Five other sons

 

Three daughters

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

John II de Mowbray

 

29 November 1310 to 4 October 1361

 

3rd Baron Mowbray

 

Married the Plantagenet Joan of Lancaster, youngest daughter of Henry of Lancaster

 

Married Maud de Chaworth between 1327 and 1328

 

Before 4 May 1351 he married Elizabeth de Vere

 

Alexander de Mowbray

 

c 1314 to c 1391

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

John III de Mowbray

 

24 June 1340 to 19 October 1368

 

4th Baron Mowbray

 

Married Elizabeth Segrave in 1349

 

Blanche de Mowbray

 

 

Eleanor de Mowbray

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Margaret de Mowbray

 

Lady de Lucy

 

Joan de Mowbray

 

Lady Grey

 

Eleanor de Mowbray

 

Baroness Welles

John IV de Mowbray

 

1 August 1365 to 12 January 1383 (aged 17)

 

1st Earl of Nottingham, 5th Baron Mowbray

 

Unmarried

 

Thomas Mowbray I

 

22 March 1366 to 22 September 1399

 

1st Duke of Norfolk, Earl of Nottingham and Norfolk, Baron Segrave and 6th Baron Mowbray

 

Married Elizabeth le Strange

 

Married Lady Elizabeth d’Arundelle FitzAlan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Elizabeth de Mowbray

 

Countess of Suffolk

 

Isabel de Mowbray

 

Married James Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley

Margaret de Mowbray

 

1388 to 1425

 

Married Robert Howard in 1417 to 1420 in Norfolk

Thomas Mowbray II

 

17 September 1385 to 8 June 1405

 

4th Earl of Norfolk, Earl of Nottingham, Baron Segrave and 7th Baron Mowbray

 

 

John Mowbray V

 

1392 to 19 October 1432

 

2nd Duke of Norfolk, Earl of Norfolk, Baron Segrave and 8th Baron Mowbray

 

Married Lady Katherine Neville, daughter of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

William Berkeley

 

Created Earl of Nottingham on 28 June 1483 and Marquis of Berkeley on 28 January 1488

John Howard

 

1421 to 1485

 

1st duke of Norfolk from 1483

 

Earl Marshall of England

 

The Jockey of Norfolk

 

Married Catherine Moulines

 

Married Margaret Chedworth

 

Killed at the Battle of Bosworth

Margaret Howard

 

Married Thomas Danyell, Baron of Rathwire

 

Catherine Howard

 

Died after 1478

 

Married Edward Neville, Baron Abergavenny

John Mowbray VI

 

12 September 1415 to 6 November 1461

 

3rd Duke of Norfolk, Earl of Nottingham and Norfolk, Baron Segrave and 9th Baron Mowbray

 

Married Eleanor Bourchier, the daughter of William Bourchier and Anne of Gloucester, the daughter of Thomas of Woodstock (youngest son of King Edward III) and Countess of Buckingham

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Margaret Lady Howard

 

 

Thomas Howard

 

Earl of Surrey

 

Anne Howard

 

 

Isobel Howard

 

John VII Mowbray

 

18 October 1444 to 14 January 1476

 

4th Duke of Norfolk, Earl of Nottingham, Norfolk, Surrey and Warenne, Baron Segrave and 10th Baron Mowbray

 

Married Elizabeth Talbot (1442-1510), daughter of John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury (1384-1453)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anne de Mowbray

 

10 December 1472 to 19 November 1481

 

8th Countess of Norfolk, Baroness Segrave and 11th Baroness Mowbray

 

The child bride of Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York, one of the Princes in the Tower. She died at the age of eight