John was the eldest son of Roger de Mowbray, 1st Baron Mowbray and Rose de Clare, daughter of Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Gloucester. His father having died in 1298 the young John found himself a royal ward, and as was common at the time, his wardship was purchased by one William de Braose, the Lord of Gower. Which is how John found himself betrothed to William's six year old daughter Alina de Braose.
John and Alina was married about 1298 in Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales.
He was knighted on the 22nd May 1306, and after attending the coronation of Edward II in 1308 John appears to have remained a loyal supporter of the new king, and was appointed to a succession of offices as well as serving in the now traditional summer campaigns against the Scots each year until 1319.
He took part in besieging the King's castle of Tickhill, 1321/1322, whereupon orders were issued for his arrest.
He accompanied the Earl of Lancaster in his southward march, and in his retreat from Burton-on-Trent to Boroughbridge, where the battle was fought, on March 16, in which John was captured and among the two dozen or so barons condemned as traitors in the aftermath of the defeat at Boroughbridge, and so on the 23rd March 1322, together with Roger de Clifford, John was drawn by three horses through the streets of York on his way to the scaffold. There he was hung in chains; the customary disembowelling and quartering being omitted on this occasion. His body was left to hang at York for the next three years before Edward II finally relented and allowed his remains to be taken down and buried at the church of the Friars Preachers in York.
Since John de Mowbray had died as a condemned traitor all the de Mowbray lands now fell into the possession of Edward II, who for good measure also imprisoned both John's widow Alice and his son John in the Tower of London. There they remained until the deposition of Edward II in January 1327.
In 1323, Despenser released her but forced her to sign over all her rights to her lands granted to her from her father, including the castle and manor of Bramber.
After Edward III became king and the fall of the Despensers, she recovered her inheritances in 1327, and married for a second time, to Sir Richard de Peshale, Sheriff of Salop and Stafford. Sir Richard would have complaints against her son, including the carrying away of his oxen, mowing of his crops and fishing in his stream.
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The John de Mowbrary who died in 1322 was buried not at Fountains Abbey, but at the Dominican Friary of York. The confusion arises from a statement in the DNB (1885-1900), which refers to the burial of Sir John's father, Roger de Mowbrary, at Fountains. To substantiate the Dominican Friary as the burial place of John de Mowbrary (d. 1322), please check British History Online and p. 41 of The Bones of a King: Richard III Rediscovered Contributor: Eileen Cunningh)
John and Alina was married about 1298 in Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales.
He was knighted on the 22nd May 1306, and after attending the coronation of Edward II in 1308 John appears to have remained a loyal supporter of the new king, and was appointed to a succession of offices as well as serving in the now traditional summer campaigns against the Scots each year until 1319.
He took part in besieging the King's castle of Tickhill, 1321/1322, whereupon orders were issued for his arrest.
He accompanied the Earl of Lancaster in his southward march, and in his retreat from Burton-on-Trent to Boroughbridge, where the battle was fought, on March 16, in which John was captured and among the two dozen or so barons condemned as traitors in the aftermath of the defeat at Boroughbridge, and so on the 23rd March 1322, together with Roger de Clifford, John was drawn by three horses through the streets of York on his way to the scaffold. There he was hung in chains; the customary disembowelling and quartering being omitted on this occasion. His body was left to hang at York for the next three years before Edward II finally relented and allowed his remains to be taken down and buried at the church of the Friars Preachers in York.
Since John de Mowbray had died as a condemned traitor all the de Mowbray lands now fell into the possession of Edward II, who for good measure also imprisoned both John's widow Alice and his son John in the Tower of London. There they remained until the deposition of Edward II in January 1327.
In 1323, Despenser released her but forced her to sign over all her rights to her lands granted to her from her father, including the castle and manor of Bramber.
After Edward III became king and the fall of the Despensers, she recovered her inheritances in 1327, and married for a second time, to Sir Richard de Peshale, Sheriff of Salop and Stafford. Sir Richard would have complaints against her son, including the carrying away of his oxen, mowing of his crops and fishing in his stream.
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The John de Mowbrary who died in 1322 was buried not at Fountains Abbey, but at the Dominican Friary of York. The confusion arises from a statement in the DNB (1885-1900), which refers to the burial of Sir John's father, Roger de Mowbrary, at Fountains. To substantiate the Dominican Friary as the burial place of John de Mowbrary (d. 1322), please check British History Online and p. 41 of The Bones of a King: Richard III Rediscovered Contributor: Eileen Cunningh)
John was the eldest son of Roger de Mowbray, 1st Baron Mowbray and Rose de Clare, daughter of Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Gloucester. His father having died in 1298 the young John found himself a royal ward, and as was common at the time, his wardship was purchased by one William de Braose, the Lord of Gower. Which is how John found himself betrothed to William's six year old daughter Alina de Braose.
John and Alina was married about 1298 in Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales.
He was knighted on the 22nd May 1306, and after attending the coronation of Edward II in 1308 John appears to have remained a loyal supporter of the new king, and was appointed to a succession of offices as well as serving in the now traditional summer campaigns against the Scots each year until 1319.
He took part in besieging the King's castle of Tickhill, 1321/1322, whereupon orders were issued for his arrest.
He accompanied the Earl of Lancaster in his southward march, and in his retreat from Burton-on-Trent to Boroughbridge, where the battle was fought, on March 16, in which John was captured and among the two dozen or so barons condemned as traitors in the aftermath of the defeat at Boroughbridge, and so on the 23rd March 1322, together with Roger de Clifford, John was drawn by three horses through the streets of York on his way to the scaffold. There he was hung in chains; the customary disembowelling and quartering being omitted on this occasion. His body was left to hang at York for the next three years before Edward II finally relented and allowed his remains to be taken down and buried at the church of the Friars Preachers in York.
Since John de Mowbray had died as a condemned traitor all the de Mowbray lands now fell into the possession of Edward II, who for good measure also imprisoned both John's widow Alice and his son John in the Tower of London. There they remained until the deposition of Edward II in January 1327.
In 1323, Despenser released her but forced her to sign over all her rights to her lands granted to her from her father, including the castle and manor of Bramber.
After Edward III became king and the fall of the Despensers, she recovered her inheritances in 1327, and married for a second time, to Sir Richard de Peshale, Sheriff of Salop and Stafford. Sir Richard would have complaints against her son, including the carrying away of his oxen, mowing of his crops and fishing in his stream.
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The John de Mowbrary who died in 1322 was buried not at Fountains Abbey, but at the Dominican Friary of York. The confusion arises from a statement in the DNB (1885-1900), which refers to the burial of Sir John's father, Roger de Mowbrary, at Fountains. To substantiate the Dominican Friary as the burial place of John de Mowbrary (d. 1322), please check British History Online and p. 41 of The Bones of a King: Richard III Rediscovered Contributor: Eileen Cunningh)
John and Alina was married about 1298 in Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales.
He was knighted on the 22nd May 1306, and after attending the coronation of Edward II in 1308 John appears to have remained a loyal supporter of the new king, and was appointed to a succession of offices as well as serving in the now traditional summer campaigns against the Scots each year until 1319.
He took part in besieging the King's castle of Tickhill, 1321/1322, whereupon orders were issued for his arrest.
He accompanied the Earl of Lancaster in his southward march, and in his retreat from Burton-on-Trent to Boroughbridge, where the battle was fought, on March 16, in which John was captured and among the two dozen or so barons condemned as traitors in the aftermath of the defeat at Boroughbridge, and so on the 23rd March 1322, together with Roger de Clifford, John was drawn by three horses through the streets of York on his way to the scaffold. There he was hung in chains; the customary disembowelling and quartering being omitted on this occasion. His body was left to hang at York for the next three years before Edward II finally relented and allowed his remains to be taken down and buried at the church of the Friars Preachers in York.
Since John de Mowbray had died as a condemned traitor all the de Mowbray lands now fell into the possession of Edward II, who for good measure also imprisoned both John's widow Alice and his son John in the Tower of London. There they remained until the deposition of Edward II in January 1327.
In 1323, Despenser released her but forced her to sign over all her rights to her lands granted to her from her father, including the castle and manor of Bramber.
After Edward III became king and the fall of the Despensers, she recovered her inheritances in 1327, and married for a second time, to Sir Richard de Peshale, Sheriff of Salop and Stafford. Sir Richard would have complaints against her son, including the carrying away of his oxen, mowing of his crops and fishing in his stream.
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The John de Mowbrary who died in 1322 was buried not at Fountains Abbey, but at the Dominican Friary of York. The confusion arises from a statement in the DNB (1885-1900), which refers to the burial of Sir John's father, Roger de Mowbrary, at Fountains. To substantiate the Dominican Friary as the burial place of John de Mowbrary (d. 1322), please check British History Online and p. 41 of The Bones of a King: Richard III Rediscovered Contributor: Eileen Cunningh)
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