John Mowbray, 4th Baron Mowbray

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John Mowbray, 4th Baron Mowbray (also John III Mowbray ) (born June 25, 1340 in Epworth , † 1368 ) was an English nobleman.

Origin and marriage

John Mowbray was the eldest son of his father of the same name, John Mowbray, 3rd Baron Mowbray and his wife Joan († before 1344). As early as 1343, Mowbray's father had arranged a double wedding between his two children, John and Blanche, with Audrey Montagu and Edward Montagu , two grandchildren of Thomas of Brotherton . However, Mowbray's father died as early as 1343, and the wedding reception planned for June 24, 1344 apparently never took place. Instead, the underage John was married around 1349 to Elizabeth Segrave , the daughter of John Segrave, 4th Baron Segrave and his wife Margaret Brotherton . At the same time, Blanche Mowbray was to marry Elizabeth's brother John . At the request of John's uncle Henry of Grosmont , Pope Clement VI. the dispensation required for marriages , which should also settle the dispute between Segrave and his wife. After the death of her father in 1353, Elizabeth Segrave was the only surviving child, his heir. This inheritance was initially administered by Segrave's widow Margaret Brotherton, and only through the intervention of King Edward III. In 1353, John was awarded a small share of the holdings of the Segrave inheritance.

Dispute over his father's inheritance

Along with 26 other young nobles, including Lionel of Antwerp and John of Gaunt , Mowbray was in July 1355 by Edward III. and his uncle Henry of Grosmont to a Knight Bachelor degree . He then belonged to the king's entourage when he met King Charles II of Navarre in France . In 1356 he returned to France, where he fought in Brittany during the Hundred Years War . After the death of his father, his inheritance was handed over to him on November 14, 1361. His legacy, which included possessions on the Isle of Axholme in Lincolnshire and other parts, was however diminished by the Wittum to which Elizabeth de Vere , his father's second wife, was entitled. Before 1369 she married Sir William Cosynton, her third marriage . Shortly thereafter, Mowbray accused his stepmother of illegally wasting her Wittum. After her death, he would inherit her Wittum, and his loss to nearly £ 1000. The indebted Elizabeth and her husband were presumably incarcerated in London's Fleet Prison for this reason .

Another life and death

At Christmas 1361, King Mowbray made Mowbray Knight Banneret , but in 1360 he had to swear to keep the peace of Brétigny with France that was concluded that year . Between 1362 and 1366 Mowbray was regularly invited to the parliaments as Baron Mowbray , but little else is known about him from this period. On October 10, 1367, he was allowed to appoint agents to administer his estates, from which he had an annual income of nearly £ 800. Mowbray planned a pilgrimage to the Holy Land , and his deputies were confirmed by the government in October 1368. Mowbray was attacked and killed by Turks in the autumn of 1368 near Constantinople . His son Thomas Mowbray wanted to transfer his bones to England before 1396, where they should be buried next to his ancestors.

Descendants and inheritance

With his wife, Elizabeth Segrave, Mowbray had two sons and three daughters:

Elizabeth died a few months before her husband in 1368. Mowbray's heir was his eldest son John, and after his early death his younger son Thomas. His son John V Mowbray eventually inherited the extensive land holdings from John III Mowbray's mother-in-law Margaret Brotherton, who had only died in 1399.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anne Curry: Gray, Sir John, Count of Tancarville (1384x91-1421). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004
predecessor Office successor
John Mowbray Baron Mowbray
1361-1368 		John Mowbray
personal data
SURNAME Mowbray, John, 4th Baron Mowbray
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mowbray, John III
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English nobleman
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1340
PLACE OF BIRTH Epworth (North Lincolnshire)
DATE OF DEATH 1368