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Sir John DE MOWBRAY, Of Thirsk, Sir

Sir John DE MOWBRAY, Of Thirsk, Sir[1, 2]

Male 1286 - 1321  (34 years)

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  • Name John DE MOWBRAY  [3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
    Prefix Sir 
    Suffix Of Thirsk, Sir 
    Born 4 Sep 1286  Thirsk, North Riding Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [6, 10
    Gender Male 
    FamilySearch ID LYWF-C7S 
    _UID 7F2186695A074716A51B93DB1FD3C12654D4 
    Died Mar 1321  Executed After Battle Of Boroughbridge, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
    Buried His Corpse Left Dangling At York For 3 Years. Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I21916  Carney Wehofer Feb 2024 Genealogy
    Last Modified 13 Dec 2022 

    Father Sir William DE MOWBRAY,   b. Between 1211 and 1265,   d. Between 1249 and 1301  (Age ~ 38 years) 
    Married Between 1235 and 1300  [4, 6, 8, 9, 11
    Family ID F11732  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Margaret PERCY,   b. Between 1256 and 1295,   d. Between 1289 and 1350  (Age ~ 33 years) 
    Married Between 1275 and 1328  [4, 6, 8, 9, 11
    Children 
     1. William MOWBRAY,   b. Between 1289 and 1318,   d. Between 1341 and 1381  (Age ~ 52 years)
    Last Modified 29 Aug 2016 
    Family ID F10281  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Aline De BRAOSE, Heiress Of Bramber & Gower,   b. Abt 1286, Gower, Glamorganshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 20 Jul 1331, Swansea, Glamorganshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 45 years) 
    Married 1298  Swansea, Glamorganshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location  [10
    Children 
     1. Christiana MOWBRAY,   b. Abt 1305, Kirklington, North Riding Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 25 Dec 1362, Plumpton in Spofforth, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 57 years)
     2. John 3Rd Baron De MOWBRAY, Of Thirsk, Sir,   b. 29 Nov 1310, Hovingham, Malton, North Riding Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Oct 1361, York, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 50 years)
    Last Modified 29 Aug 2016 
    Family ID F6540  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • John de Mowbray, 2nd Lord (Baron) Mowbray; allegedly born 4 Sep 1286; knighted 1306; served regularly against the Scots 1308-19, Keeper of the City and County of York 1312, Warden of the Marches towards Carlisle 1313 and Jan 1314/5, Captain and Keeper of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Northumberland March 1314/5, Keeper of town and castle of Scarborough and manor and castle of Malton 1317; joined Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, in rebellion against Edward II; married 1298 Aline de Braose/Brewes, daughter and coheir of 1st and apparently last Lord (Baron) Brewes, and after being taken prisoner at the Battle of Boroughbridge 16 March 1321/2 was hanged 23 March at York, his corpse allegedly being kept dangling for around three years. [Burke's Peerage]

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      John de Mowbray, Knight, 2nd Lord Mowbray of Thirsk, b. 4 Sep 1286, MP 1307-1321, warden of the marches near Carlisle and of the town and castle of Scarborough 1317, executed after the battle of Boroughbridge, at York, 23 Mar 1321/2; m. Swansea, 1298, Aline, d. bef. 20 July 1331, daughter of William de Braiose, Lord of Bramber and Gower in Wales; she m. (2) Sir Richard de Peshale, living Nov 1342. [Magna Charta Sureties]

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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]

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