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The House of Mowbray (/ ˈ m oʊ b r i /) was an Anglo-Norman noble house, derived from Montbray in Normandy and founded by Roger de Mowbray, son of Nigel d'Aubigny. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Foundations
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Trunk's Close, with the 1529 'back-land' of Moubray House on the left, with its corbelled projections for stairs. Moubray House lies on the north side of the High Street, between Trunk's or Turing's Close and the John Knox House, near the site of Edinburgh's Netherbow Port, the main gate into Edinburgh before its demolition in 1764.
Mowbray founded the chapel of St. Nicholas, with a chantry, at Thirsk, and was a benefactor of his grandfather's foundations at Furness Abbey and Newburgh, where, on his death in Axholme in or before March 1224, he was buried. [4] [2] Mowbray is found in contemporary documents only with a wife named Avice, by her having sons Nigel and Roger.
However, in 1283 he was summoned to Parliament by King Edward I as Lord Mowbray. [2] Mowbray married Rose, a daughter of Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Gloucester. They had at least two children: John, who succeeded his father to the barony; Alexander, who apparently took up residence in Scotland. [2] Roger de Mowbray was buried in Fountains Abbey.
Brooksby Hall. Brooksby Hall is a late–16th-century manor house on 3.2 square kilometres (800 acres) of land between Leicester and Melton Mowbray.Situated 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) northeast of Leicester, the hall and the neighbouring church of St Michael and All Angels are the last remnants of the medieval village of Brooksby, which was founded during the period of the Danelaw in the 9th ...
The public house, The Plough Inn, also acts as a restaurant and provides thrice-weekly post office services. [9] There coffee shop, village store [10] and bed-and-breakfast accommodation available in the village. [11] Stathern is served by hourly weekday, daytime buses between Melton Mowbray and Bottesford or Bingham. [12]
Freeby is a village and civil parish in the Melton district of Leicestershire, England, about 3 miles (5 km) east of Melton Mowbray. As well as the village of Freeby the civil parish includes the villages of Brentingby, Saxby, Stapleford and Wyfordby. The 2011 Census recorded the parish population as 244. [1]