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Margaret De MOWBRAY

Margaret De MOWBRAY[1]

Female Abt 1362 - Bef 1401  (~ 38 years)

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  • Name Margaret De MOWBRAY  [2, 3
    Born Abt 1362  Epworth, Isle Of Axholme, Lincolnshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Gender Female 
    FamilySearch ID G84P-DR3 
    _UID 0DD7642DD81747BEB359BADCC7FDD40CAF31 
    Died Bef 1401  [3
    Person ID I13005  Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
    Last Modified 11 Dec 2022 

    Father John de MOWBRAY,   b. 25 Jun 1340, Epworth, Isle Of Axholme, Lincolnshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 17 Jun 1368, Thrace, Byzantium, Turkey Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 27 years) 
    Mother Elizabeth De SEGRAVE,   b. 25 Oct 1338, Croxton, Leicestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 1368, Leicestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 29 years) 
    Married Abt 1349  [5
    Family ID F6536  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Reynold (Reginald) LUCY, Of Dallington, Sir,   b. Bef 1360, Cublington, Buckinghamshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 9 Nov 1437, Dallington, Northamptonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 77 years) 
    Married 1 Jul 1369  Bretby Castle, Derbyshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Alt. Marriage Bef Feb 1378-1379  [2
    Alt. Marriage 
    Children 
     1. Walter LUCY, Of Newington & Richards Castle, Sir,   b. Bef 1379, Wapenham, Northamptonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Oct 1444, Richard's Castle, Ludlow, Herefordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 65 years)
    Last Modified 29 Aug 2016 
    Family ID F6571  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • From soc.genealogy.medieval:

      Dear Newsgroup ~

      The immigrants Robert Abell, Richard More of the Mayflower and Rev. John Oxenbridge are lineal descendants of Reginald Lucy, died 1437, of Dallington, co. Northampton, and his wife, Margaret. Until now, Margaret Lucy's identity and parentage have been unknown. However, recently I came across this couple's marriage license in an obscure episcopal register:

      "Kal. Jul. [1 July] 1369. At Heywod. To Reginald de Lucy, son of Sir Geoffrey de Lucy, and Margaret, daughter of Sir John de Moubrey, to be married in the chapel within Bretteby [Bretby] Castle [co. Derby]" [Reference: Lichfield Episcopal Registers, Register of [Bishop] Robert de Stretton, published in William Salt Archaeological Society, n.s., 8 (1905): 47].

      As indicated by the license quoted above, the bride's name was Margaret Mowbray, daughter of Sir John de Mowbray. Due to the name, chronology and place of marriage, Margaret Mowbray can be readily identified as a hitherto unknown daughter of Sir John de Mowbray, 4th Lord Mowbray, by his wife, Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of John de Segrave, 4th Lord Segrave, of Bretby Castle, co. Derby.

      In this case, the place of marriage is significant as Bretby Castle was one of the holdings of the Segrave family and fell to Mowbray family on the marriage of Elizabeth Segrave to John de Mowbray, 4th Lord Mowbray. This was presumably one of the Segrave family's principal residences, as Elizabeth's father, John de Segrave, prepared his will in 1352 at Bretby [Reference: Complete Peerage, 11 (1949): 609]. I assume this license was missed by Lucy and Mowbray researchers as the Lucy family was seated principally at Northampton, whereas the Mowbray family's chief holdings were in cos. Lincoln and York. One would not expect to look in Derbyshire for a marriage license for this couple.

      The newly discovered Margaret Mowbray gives the immigrants, Robert Abell, Richard More and John Oxenbridge an all new descent from King Edward I plus many other interesting connections. For newsgroup interest, I have prepared the descent down to Robert Abell. For fuller particulars of the Lucy and allied families, please see the forthcoming 3rd edition of Plantagenet Ancestry.

      Best always, Douglas Richardson, Salt Lake City, Utah

  • Sources 
    1. [S579] Jim Weber.

    2. [S63] Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000, VIII:261 (Reliability: 3).

    3. [S44] Newsgroup: soc.genealogy.medieval, at groups - google.com, Douglas Richardson, 4 Oct 2001 (Reliability: 3).

    4. [S44] Newsgroup: soc.genealogy.medieval, at groups - google.com, C E Wood, 30 Jan 2002 (Reliability: 3).

    5. [S25] Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999, 63-6 (Reliability: 3).