Dear Robert,
Here is a brief overview of the Mowbray family of Easby, Yorkshire as
I have it at the moment. If you need any specific sources, I'd be
happy to oblige. If you have any sources for Joan Wateby and her third
husband William Newsome of York, I'd be interested to see them. Their
daughter Maud (d. 1457), who married firstly Sir John Hotham (d. 30
Sep 1419) is one of my ancestors.
1. William Mowbray of Easby in the parish of Stokesley, Yorkshire (ca.
1275 - ca. 1320)
William de Mowbray married before 1310 Agnes, widow of Alan Baudewyne
[Baldwin]. On 1 April 1312, Alan Romund came before the king, on
Saturday in Easter week, and sought to replevy to William de Moubray
and Agnes his wife their land in Brunton-on-Swale, taken into the
king's hands for their default against against Olive, late the wife of
Walter Gill. On 20 November 1316, William de Moubray and Ralph de
Lestre were appointed to levy and take to York the 80 quarters of
wheat and 120 of oats which they were ordered to purvey in the
wapentake of Langebergh, Yorkshire. William was dead by 1320 and had
been succeeded by his elder son Thomas de Mowbray of Easby to whom a
debt was acknowledged on 13 January 1320.
William Mowbray and Agnes had two sons, Thomas and John.
2a. Thomas Mowbray of Easby (ca.
1310 - 1377) first son of William
Mowbray and Agnes, married Alice.
On 1 May 1329, he described himself as a great-grandson of William de
Mowbray in a gift to Guisborough Priory "Willelmi de Moubray, proavi
ipsius Thomae, cujus haeres ipse est". The deed also names his wife as
Alice, "Thomam de Moubray et Alicia uxor ejus". In 1330 Thomas, son of
John de Hertford sued Thomas, son of William de Moubray for a messuage
and 140 acres of land and six acres of meadow and half a mill in
Barton near Melsamby. In 1348, the Prior of Guisbrough claimed against
Thomas de Moubray that he should acquit him of the service which the
Bishop of Durham requires for the free tenement which the Prior holds
of Thomas in Kepewyk. The will of Thomas Mubray of Esby in Cleveland
is dated 15 November 1377 and was proved on 21 November 1377.
John, son of Thomas was the ancestor of the later Mowbrays of Easby,
who seem to have died out in the late 1400s.
2b. Sir John Mowbray, (ca. 1315 - ca. 1373) second son of William
Mowbray and Agnes, married Margaret, daughter of Sir Alexander Percy
of Ormesby and Sneaton and his wife Julian.
"Johanne filio Willelmi de Moubray" was witness to a gift to
Guisborough Priory in 1347. In 1352, William, son of Sir Ivo de
Aldeburgh, gave to John, son of William de Moubray and Margaret, his
wife, his manor of Aldeburgh, in Richmondshire. On 11 July 1359 John
Moubray was appointed as a justice of the Bench.
Sir John Mowbray and Margaret Percy had three sons, Alexander, William
and John (a clergyman).
3a. Sir Alexander Mowbray, (ca. 1330 - 1370) first son of John Mowbray
and Margaret Percy married Elizabeth de Musters, daughter of Henry de
Musters of Treswell, Nottinghamshire and Kirklington, Yorkshire and
his second wife, Elizabeth Thornhill.
On 20 August 1355, Sir John de Musters (grandfather of Elizabeth)
granted by charter to John son of William Moubray and Alexander his
son and to Elizabeth daughter of Henry de Musters, now Alexander's
wife, all his manor of Kirtelyngton and all his lands in Syndreby. In
September 1367, Alexander son of John Moubray and Elizabeth his wife,
granted the manor of Kirklington to Sir John Moubray his father, for
life. On 6 February 1370, a commission of oyer and terminer was
ordered on information that many evildoers came to Kirtlyngton co,.
York, in array of war, broke the manse of the manor of John de Moubray
one of the justices of the Bench, while he was in the king's
protection, ravished and carried away Elizabeth late the wife of
Alexander Moubray, 'chivaler,' his son, took away goods of the said
John, and assaulted, wounded and imprisoned his men and servants.
Elizabeth later married the man who had abducted her - John de
Wandesford of Westwick, Yorkshire.
Alexander Mowbray and Elizabeth Musters had two children, Alexander
and Elizabeth (see below).
3b. Sir William Mowbray, (ca. 1335 - 1391) second son of John Mowbray
and Margaret Percy married firstly, Ellen and secondly Margaret
Chaumont, daughter of John Chaumont, esq. of Colton in Ainsty,
Yorkshire and his wife Joan, daughter of Richard Wateby of York.
William Mowbray died in 1391, seised of the manor of Barton,
Yorkshire, leaving a daughter Eleanor, afterwards wife of Thomas
Ingleby, and a widow Margaret. Margaret held the manor in dower until
her death in 1419, when it descended to William son of Thomas and
Eleanor Ingleby. In the will of William Mowbray of Colton, dated at
York on "le dymangue prouchayn avant le fest de Saynt Petre ad
vincula, la'n le Roy Richard le secound quynzesme" [26 July 1391] he
leaves alms to pray for the souls of his father John Mowbray, Master
John Mowbray his brother and Ellen once his wife. He also mentions
dame Margaret, his wife, dame Jane Chaumon, her sister, and Elizabeth
Gascoigne (daughter of his brother Alexander).
William Mowbray and Margaret Chaumont had an only daughter Eleanor,
who married Thomas Ingleby of Ripley, Yorkshire.
Margaret married secondly, before 25 June 1396, Walter Dallingridge
and thirdly William Cheyne. She died before 3 November 1419.
4a. Alexander Mowbray (ca. 1355 - 1380), son of Sir Alexander Mowbray
and Elizabeth Musters.
Alexander Mowbray married Eleanor in or before 1373. He died childless
about 1380 and his heir was his sister Elizabeth.
4b. Elizabeth Mowbray (ca. 1350 - 1396), daughter of Sir Alexander
Mowbray and Elizabeth Musters married Sir William Gascoigne of
Gawthorpe, Yorkshire, Chief Justice.
Best regards,
John