John (I) de Mowbray, 2nd Baron Mowbray (4 September 1286 – 23 March 1322) was the son of Roger de Mowbray, 1st Baron Mowbray. Lord of the manors of Tanfield and Well, Yorkshire. De Mowbray served in the Scottish wars of

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. The baron held such offices as

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, governor of the city of

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, a warden of the Scottish marches, and governor of Malton and Scarborough Castles. He took part in the rebellion of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster. He was captured at the Battle of Boroughbridge and subsequently hanged at York. John de Mowbray married Aline de Braose, (b. 1291 d. ca 1331), daughter of William de Braose, 2nd Baron Braose and Lord of Gower. They had at least two sons: *

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d.1361 who succeeded his father to the barony. *

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, (c. 1314 – c. 1391.) John de Mowbray was buried at Greyfriar's in York. The church was destroyed under Henry VIII's rule, and its grounds are now covered by the city's train station.

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* Burke, Sir Bernard. "Mowbray-Earls of Nottingham, Dukes of Norfolk, Earls-Marshal, Earls of Warren and Surrey." A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, of the British Empire. London: Wm Clowes and Sons, Ltd, 1962. p. 387. * 1286 births 1322 deaths 13th-century English nobility 14th-century English people Barons Mowbray People knighted at the Feast of the Swans

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