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Thomas Mowbray

Male 1368 - 1399  (31 years)


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  • Name Thomas Mowbray 
    Alternate birth 22 Mar 1367  [1
    Birth 22 Mar 1368  [1, 2
    Gender Male 
    Death 22 Sep 1399  Venice, Veneto, Italy Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Burial Venice, Veneto, Italy Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Siblings 2 siblings 
    Person ID I14410  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of LD, Ancestor of TSW
    Last Modified 27 Feb 2023 

    Father John Mowbray,   b. 25 Jun 1340, Epworth, Lincolnshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 17 Jun 1368, Thrace, near Constantinople Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 27 years) 
    Mother Elizabeth de Segrave,   b. 25 Oct 1338, Croxton Abbey, Melton Mobray, Leicestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Between 1364 and 1368 (Age 25 years) 
    Marriage Aft 25 Mar 1349  [1, 2, 3, 4
    Notes 
    • Married by papal dispensation, being third cousins, both descended from Henry III and Eleanor of Provence.
    Family ID F4245  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Elizabeth Fitz Alan,   b. Abt 1371   d. 8 Jul 1425 (Age ~ 54 years) 
    Marriage Jul 1384  Arundel, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 5
    Children 
    +1. Margaret Mowbray   d. Bef 18 Oct 1459
    +2. Isabel Mowbray   d. 23 Sep 1452, Gloucester Castle, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID F8979  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 27 Feb 2023 

  • Notes 
    • Earl of Norfolk. Created Earl of Nottingham 12 Feb 1383. Granted the office of Marshal of England for life, 30 Jun 1385.

      Thomas Mowbray and Elizabeth Fitz Alan (aka Elizabeth Arundel) were great-great-great grandparents of Anne Boleyn (d. 1536).

      From Wikipedia:

      He was one of the Lords Appellant to King Richard II who deposed some of the King's court favourites in 1387. He worked his way back into the king's good graces, however, and was likely instrumental in the murder, in 1397, of the king's uncle (and senior Lord Appellant), Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, who was imprisoned at Calais, where Nottingham was Captain. In gratitude, on 29 September 1397, the king created him Duke of Norfolk.

      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. Before a duel between them could take place, Richard II banished them both. Mowbray left England on 19 October 1398. While in exile, he succeeded as Earl of Norfolk when his maternal grandmother, Margaret of Brotherton, Duchess of Norfolk, died on 24 March 1399.

      He died of the plague at Venice on 22 September 1399. Bolingbroke returned to England in 1399 and usurped the crown on 30 September 1399; shortly afterward, on 6 October 1399, the creation of Mowbray as Duke of Norfolk was annulled by Parliament, although Mowbray's heir retained his other titles.

  • Sources 
    1. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013.

    2. [S6823] Leslie Mahler, "The English Ancestry of John1 Freake of Boston, Massachusetts, with His Descent from Edward I, King of England." The American Genealogist 86:257, 2012.

    3. [S145] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. 8th edition, William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, 2006, 2008.

    4. [S128] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant ed. Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Duncan Warrand, Howard de Walden, Geoffrey H. White and R. S. Lea. 2nd edition. 14 volumes (1-13, but volume 12 spanned two books), London, The St. Catherine Press, 1910-1959. Volume 14, "Addenda & Corrigenda," ed. Peter W. Hammond, Gloucestershire, Sutton Publishing, 1998., year only.

    5. [S6823] Leslie Mahler, "The English Ancestry of John1 Freake of Boston, Massachusetts, with His Descent from Edward I, King of England." The American Genealogist 86:257, 2012., date only.