Eleanor de Mowbray

Who was Eleanor de Mowbray?

Eleanor de Mowbray was the daughter of John de Mowbray, 4th Baron Mowbray, and Elizabeth de Segrave, 5th Baroness Segrave, daughter and heiress of John de Segrave, 4th Baron Segrave. She had two brothers and two sisters:

⁕John de Mowbray, 1st Earl of Nottingham, who died unmarried shortly before 12 February 1383 and was buried at the Whitefriars, London.

⁕Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk.

⁕Margaret Mowbray, who married, by licence dated 1 July 1369, Sir Reginald Lucy of Woodcroft in Luton, Bedfordshire.

⁕Joan Mowbray, who married firstly Sir Thomas Grey of Heaton near Norham, Northumberland, son of the chronicler Sir Thomas Grey, and secondly Sir Thomas Tunstall of Thurland in Tunstall, Lancashire.

Eleanor de Mowbray's father, the 4th Baron, was slain by the Turks at Thrace on 17 June 1368.

She died before 13 August 1417, when her husband, the 5th Baron, married a second wife named Margaret, whose surname is unknown.