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William de Mowbray (c. 1173 –c. 1224), lord of Thirsk and Mowbray, was a Norman lord and English noble who was one of the twenty-five executors of Magna Carta. He was described as being as small as a dwarf but very generous and valiant.
William's grandson Roger de Mowbray (1266–1298), was summoned to parliament by Edward I, by which act he is held to have become the first Lord Mowbray. He was father of John (1286–1322), a warrior and warden of the Scottish March, who, joining in Thomas of Lancaster 's revolt, was captured at Boroughbridge and hanged. [ 3 ]
William de Mowbray, 6th Baron of Thirsk, 4th Baron Mowbray, was one of the 25 executors of the Magna Carta in 1215. [13] The Mowbrays built a manor house on the old castle site, which was destroyed by the Scots in 1322.
Roger was the son of Nigel d'Aubigny by his second wife, Gundreda de Gournay. [2]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, as well as the substantial holdings in ...
William de Mowbray (c. 1173–c. 1224), lord of Thirsk and Mowbray, Norman lord, English noble and one of the 25 executors of Magna Carta; Other Colin de ...
Mabel de Clare, d. 1204 (daughter of Roger de Clare, 2nd Earl of Hertford), wife of Nigel de Mowbray; Roger de Mowbray (Lord of Montbray) (though some uncertainty about his final resting place) William de Mowbray, 6th Baron of Thirsk, 4th Baron Mowbray; Joan of Lancaster, third daughter of Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster
John (II) de Mowbray, 3rd Baron Mowbray (29 November 1310 – 4 October 1361) was the only son of John de Mowbray, 2nd Baron Mowbray, by his first wife, Aline de Brewes, [1] daughter of William de Braose, 2nd Baron Braose. He was born in Hovingham, Yorkshire. [1]
Roger de Mowbray lost favour with the king (Henry II of England), and rebelled against him in the Great Revolt. [8] Henry later besieged Thirsk Castle, and de Mowbray was forced to give up his castles, including Thirsk in 1175. [9] Henry II ordered that the castles at Kirkby Malzeard and Thirsk be destroyed in early 1176. [10]