Roger de Mowbray, 1st Baron Mowbray (1254 – 21 November 1297), was an

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peer and soldier. The son of another Roger de Mowbray, and grandson of

William de Mowbray William de Mowbray (–), lord of Thirsk and Mowbray, was a Norman Lord and English noble who was one of the twenty-five executors of '' Magna Carta''. He was described as being as small as a dwarf but very generous and valiant. Family origin W ...

, he served in the Welsh and Gascon Wars. He was summoned to the Parliament of

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in 1265, but such summonses have later been declared void. However, in 1283 he was summoned to Parliament by

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as Lord Mowbray. Reprinted: 1985. Mowbray married Rose, a daughter of

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. They had at least two children: *

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, who succeeded his father to the barony *Alexander, who apparently took up residence in

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. Roger de Mowbray was buried in

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