3rd Duke of Norfolk, Knight of the Garter and Earl Marshal
Son of John de Mowbray and Lady Katherine de Neville. Grandson of Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk and Elizabeth Arundel, Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland and Margaret Stafford.
Husband of Eleanor Bourchier, the daughter of William Bourchier, Count Eu and Anne of Gloucester, the daughter of Thomas of Woodstock (youngest son of King Edward III) and Countess of Buckingham. They had one son, John Mowbray, the 4th Duke of Norfolk.
He succeeded to the office of Hereditary Sheriff of Norfolk after his father's death in 1432 at the age of sixteen, placed under the protection of Humphrey of Lancaster, Duke of Gloucester.
John supported Richard, the Duke of York at the beginning of the War of The Roses period in 1450, but swore allegiance to the Lancastrians in 1459, only to switch sides back to Henry VI by 1461 for the Second Battle of St Albans, a common practice. Mowbray's movement during the Battle of Towton, the bloodiest battle on English soil, swayed the victory to the Yorkists. John served as Earl Marshal at King Edward IV's coronation June 1461.
Son of John de Mowbray and Lady Katherine de Neville. Grandson of Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk and Elizabeth Arundel, Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland and Margaret Stafford.
Husband of Eleanor Bourchier, the daughter of William Bourchier, Count Eu and Anne of Gloucester, the daughter of Thomas of Woodstock (youngest son of King Edward III) and Countess of Buckingham. They had one son, John Mowbray, the 4th Duke of Norfolk.
He succeeded to the office of Hereditary Sheriff of Norfolk after his father's death in 1432 at the age of sixteen, placed under the protection of Humphrey of Lancaster, Duke of Gloucester.
John supported Richard, the Duke of York at the beginning of the War of The Roses period in 1450, but swore allegiance to the Lancastrians in 1459, only to switch sides back to Henry VI by 1461 for the Second Battle of St Albans, a common practice. Mowbray's movement during the Battle of Towton, the bloodiest battle on English soil, swayed the victory to the Yorkists. John served as Earl Marshal at King Edward IV's coronation June 1461.
3rd Duke of Norfolk, Knight of the Garter and Earl Marshal
Son of John de Mowbray and Lady Katherine de Neville. Grandson of Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk and Elizabeth Arundel, Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland and Margaret Stafford.
Husband of Eleanor Bourchier, the daughter of William Bourchier, Count Eu and Anne of Gloucester, the daughter of Thomas of Woodstock (youngest son of King Edward III) and Countess of Buckingham. They had one son, John Mowbray, the 4th Duke of Norfolk.
He succeeded to the office of Hereditary Sheriff of Norfolk after his father's death in 1432 at the age of sixteen, placed under the protection of Humphrey of Lancaster, Duke of Gloucester.
John supported Richard, the Duke of York at the beginning of the War of The Roses period in 1450, but swore allegiance to the Lancastrians in 1459, only to switch sides back to Henry VI by 1461 for the Second Battle of St Albans, a common practice. Mowbray's movement during the Battle of Towton, the bloodiest battle on English soil, swayed the victory to the Yorkists. John served as Earl Marshal at King Edward IV's coronation June 1461.
Son of John de Mowbray and Lady Katherine de Neville. Grandson of Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk and Elizabeth Arundel, Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland and Margaret Stafford.
Husband of Eleanor Bourchier, the daughter of William Bourchier, Count Eu and Anne of Gloucester, the daughter of Thomas of Woodstock (youngest son of King Edward III) and Countess of Buckingham. They had one son, John Mowbray, the 4th Duke of Norfolk.
He succeeded to the office of Hereditary Sheriff of Norfolk after his father's death in 1432 at the age of sixteen, placed under the protection of Humphrey of Lancaster, Duke of Gloucester.
John supported Richard, the Duke of York at the beginning of the War of The Roses period in 1450, but swore allegiance to the Lancastrians in 1459, only to switch sides back to Henry VI by 1461 for the Second Battle of St Albans, a common practice. Mowbray's movement during the Battle of Towton, the bloodiest battle on English soil, swayed the victory to the Yorkists. John served as Earl Marshal at King Edward IV's coronation June 1461.
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