John MOWBRAY 4th Baron Mowbray
JOHN DE MOWBRAY, Knt., 4th Lord Mowbray, of Axholme, Lincolnsbire, son and heir, born at Epworth, Lincolnshire 25 June 1340. He married by papal dispensation dated 25 March 1349 (they being related in the 4th degree of kindred) ELIZABETH DE SEGRAVE, Lady Segrave suojure, daughter and heiress of John de Segrave, Knt., 4th Lord Segrave, of Barton Segrave, Leicestersbire, Bretby, Derbyshire, etc. (descendant of King John), by Margaret, Duchess and Countess of Norfolk, daughter and co-heiress of Thomas of Brotherton, Knt., Earl of Norfolk, Marshal of England (son of King Edward I') [see NORFOLK 7 for her ancestry]. She was born 25 Oct. 1338, and baptized the same day at Croxton Abbey. They had two sons, John [5th Lord Mowbray] and Thomas, Knt., K.G. [6th Lord Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, etc.], and three daughters, Eleanor, Margaret, and Joan. In 1351 his wife, Elizabeth, then a resident of Norwich diocese, received a papal indult for plenary reimssion. She is said to have become ruo jure Lady Segrave, on the death of her father, Sir John de Segrave, 1 April 1353. He was knighted in July 1355 when the King was with his fleet in the Downs on his way to an invasion of France. Next year he served in the Brittany campaign. He was summoned to Parliament from 14 August 1362 to 20 Jan. 1365/6. In 1367 he was going beyond seas by the King's license. SIR JOHN DE MOWBRAY, 4th Lord Mowbray, was slain by the Turks in Thrace near Constantinople 17 June 1368, and was presumably buried in Pera convent in Constantinople. His wife, Elizabeth, predeceased him.
JOHN DE MOWBRAY, knight, lord of Axiholm.
17 May 1369. [fo. 71.]
Commission to John Stretle and Geoffrey lo Scrop, canons of Lincoln, to grant probate.
5 May 1316. [fo. 323.]
Commission to Ric. de Raveneer archdn. of Lincoln, John de Bolv' subdean, Sir John Bagote knt., Thos. Willoford rector of Belton, Rob. de Yonealey vicar of Ouston, and William Roes and Thos de Burnham domicelli, to examine and settle the account of Win. de Dalby rector of Epworth, executor of the will of deceased.
JOHN DE MOWBRAY, Knt., 3td Lord Mowbray, Baron of Axholme, Linco]nsbire, Baron of Bramber, Sussex, lord of Gower in Wales, Keeper of Berwick-on-Tweed, son and heir, born at Hovingham, Yorkshire 29 Nov. 1310 and baptized there. As a child, he was affianced to marry MAUD DE HOLAND, daughter of Robert de Holand, Knt., jtt Lord Holand, by Maud, daughter and co-heiress of Alan la Zouche, Knt., Lord Zouche [see SAVAGE 8]. This marriage never took place. He was imprisoned in the Tower of London with his mother 26 Feb. 1321/2. He married between 28 Feb. 1326/7 and 4 June 1328 JOAN OF LANCASTER, 6th and youngest daughter of Henry ofLancaster, Knt., Earl of Lancaster (grandson of King Henry III), by Maud, daughter and heiress of Patrick de Chaworth, Knt. [see LANCASTER 6 for her ancestry]. They had one son, John, Knt. [4th Lord Mowbray] and two daughters, Blanche and Eleanor. On the accession of King Edward III, his father's attainder was reversed, and he had livery of all his father's lands, excepting those of the Templars. He was summoned to Parliament from 10 Dec. 1327 to 20 Nov. 1360. He served in the Scots and French wars. In 1333, while he was with the king's army at Berwick, a band of intruders raided the lordship of Gower and plundered some of his tenants. In 1337 two ships were provided for him going to Scotland. In 1338 he was ordered to take all his forces to Sussex to defend the coast. In 1342 he and his wife, Joan, received a papal indult for plenary remission. He was one of the commanders of the English Army at the Battle of Nevili's Cross, Durham 17 Oct. 1346. He was present at the siege of Calais in 1347. His wife, Joan, died 7 July [?1349], and was buried before the high altar at Byland. He is said to have taken part in the naval defeat of the Spaniards off Winchelsea in 1350. He married (2nd) before papal dispensation dated 4 May 1351 (they being related in the 4th and 3rd degrees of kindred) ELIZABETH DE VERE, widow of Hugh de Courtenay, K.G. (died before 2 Sept. 1349), and daughter of John de Vere, 7th Earl of Oxford, by Maud, daughter of Bartholomew de Badllesmere, Lord Badlesmere. They had no known surviving issue. In 1354 his title to Gower was contested by Thomas Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick in the Court of Common Pleas, which suit was decided in Warwick's favor. In 1356 he witnessed the surrender by Baliol of his claim to the Scottish crown in favor of Edward. SIR JOHN DE MOWBRAY, 3rd Lord Mowbray, died of pestilence at York 4 Oct. 1361, and was buried at the church of Friars Minor, Bedford. His widow, Elizabeth, married (3rd) before 18 Jan. 1368/9 William de Cossington, Knt. (living 6 July 1380), son and heir of Stephen de Cossington, of Cosynton (in Aylesford) and Acrise, Kent. She died 16 August 1375.
BIRTH: age 67 at death
Marriage Notes for James Whitnell and Mary CLEAR-6080
MARRIAGE: A widower
LOUIS DE BRIENNE, Knt., in right of his wife, Vicomte of Beaumont in Maine, seigneur of Beaumont-leVicomte (alias Beaumont-sur-Sarthe), Sainte-Suzanne, la Flèche, Fresnay, le Lude, etc., younger son by his father's 3rd marriage. He married 12 Feb. 1253 AGNES DE BEAUMONT, daughter of Raoul VI de Beaumont, Vicomte of Beaumont, seigneur of Sainte-Suzanne, la Flèche, Fresnay, and le Lude, by his 2nd wife, Agnes. They had four sons, John IlVicomte of Beaumont], Henry, Knt. jLlst Lord Beaumont, Earl of Buchan], Louis (clerk) [Bishop of Durham], and Charles (clerk), and four daughters. Marguerite (wife of Bohemund VII, Prince of Antioch and Count of Tripolis), Marie (wife of Henri III d'Avaugour, baron of Mayenne), Isabel (wife of John de Vescy), and Jeanne (wife of Guy VII de Laval, Knt., Count of Caserta). Agnes was heiress in 1242 to her brother, Richard de Beaumont, Vicomte of Beaumont. In 1246 Agnes and her 1st cousin, Margaret de Tony, widow of Malcolm, 6~ Earl of Fife, wrote to Pope Innocent III regarding the deplorable condition of Perray-Neuf Abbey. In 1253 Louis and Agnes allowed the nuns of Vivoin to expand the court of their monastery. In 1255 he was present at the court of Alfonso X, King of Castile. SIR LOUIS DE BRIENNE, Vicomte of Beaumont, died after 1 Sept. 1297. His widow, Agnes, conveyed the barony of Crail in Fifeshire in Scotland to her daughter, Isabel de Vescy, in 1297. She died 28 Nov. (after 1304). They were both buried at Etival.