Elizabeth de Mowbray, Duchess of Norfolk (née Lady Elizabeth Fitzalan; 8 July 1366 – 8 July 1425) was an English noblewoman and the wife of

Thomas Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (disambiguation) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the ...

. Through her eldest daughter, Lady Margaret Mowbray, Elizabeth was an ancestress of Queens consort

Anne Boleyn Anne Boleyn (; 1501 or 1507 – 19 May 1536) was List of English royal consorts, Queen of England from 1533 to 1536, as the Wives of Henry VIII, second wife of King Henry VIII. The circumstances of her marriage and execution, by beheading ...

and

Katherine Howard Catherine Howard ( – 13 February 1542) was Queen of England from July 1540 until November 1541 as the fifth wife of King Henry VIII. She was the daughter of Lord Edmund Howard and Joyce Culpeper, a first cousin to Anne Boleyn (the second ...

, and the Howard

Dukes of Norfolk Duke of Norfolk is a title in the peerage of England. The premier non-royal peer, the Duke of Norfolk is additionally the premier duke and earl in the English peerage. The seat of the Duke of Norfolk is Arundel Castle in Sussex, although the t ...

. Her other notable descendants include

Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk ( – 22 August 1545) was an English military leader and courtier. Through his third wife, Mary Tudor, he was the brother-in-law of King Henry VIII. Biography Born in 1484, Charles Brandon was the secon ...

;

Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby, KG (1435 – 29 July 1504) was an English nobleman. He was the stepfather of King Henry VII of England. He was the eldest son of Thomas Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley and Joan Goushill. A landed magnate of im ...

; Sir Thomas Wyatt, the younger; and

Lady Jane Grey Lady Jane Grey (1536/1537 – 12 February 1554), also known as Lady Jane Dudley after her marriage, and nicknamed as the "Nine Days Queen", was an English noblewoman who was proclaimed Queen of England and Ireland on 10 July 1553 and reigned ...

(by both parents).

Marriages and children

Lady Elizabeth was born in

Derbyshire Derbyshire ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England. It borders Greater Manchester, West Yorkshire, and South Yorkshire to the north, Nottinghamshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south-east, Staffordshire to the south a ...

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, a daughter of

Richard Fitzalan, 4th Earl of Arundel Richard Fitzalan, 4th Earl of Arundel, 9th Earl of Surrey (1346 – 21 September 1397) was an English medieval nobleman and military commander. Lineage Born in 1346, he was the son of Richard Fitzalan, 3rd Earl of Arundel and Eleanor of Lancast ...

and his first wife

Elizabeth de Bohun Elizabeth or Elisabeth may refer to: People * Elizabeth (given name), a female given name (including people with that name) * Empress Elisabeth (disambiguation), lists various empresses named ''Elisabeth'' or ''Elizabeth'' * Princess Elizabeth ...

, daughter of

William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton, Order of the Garter, KG (c. 1312 – 16 September 1360) was an English nobleman and military commander. Lineage William was the fifth son of Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford and Elizabeth of Rhu ...

and

Elizabeth de Badlesmere Elizabeth de Bohun (née de Badlesmere), Countess of Northampton (1313 – 8 June 1356) was the wife of two English noblemen, Sir Edmund Mortimer and William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton. She was a co-heiress of her brother Giles de Badl ...

. Elizabeth had five husbands and at least seven children: * Sir William Montacute, the eldest son of

William de Montagu, 2nd Earl of Salisbury William Montagu, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, 4th Baron Montagu, King of Mann, KG (25 June 1328 – 3 June 1397) was an English nobleman and commander in the English army during King Edward III's French campaigns in the Hundred Years War. He was o ...

(before December 1378). *

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(1384), married July 1384. **

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(b. 17 September 1385) **Margaret de Mowbray (b. 1388), who married Sir Robert Howard (1385–1436) of

Stoke by Nayland Stoke-by-Nayland is a village and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Babergh District, Babergh district, in the county of Suffolk, England, close to the border with Essex. The parish includes the village of Withermarsh Green and th ...

in Suffolk, by whom she was the mother of

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. **

John de Mowbray, 2nd Duke of Norfolk John de Mowbray, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, 3rd Earl of Nottingham, 8th Baron Mowbray, 9th Baron Segrave Order of the Garter, KG, Earl Marshal (139219 October 1432) was an English Nobility, nobleman and soldier. He was a younger son of the Thomas de M ...

(b. 1392) **Isabel de Mowbray (b. 1396), married

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**Elizabeth de Mowbray (b.1398), who married

Michael de la Pole, 3rd Earl of Suffolk Michael de la Pole, 3rd Earl of Suffolk (139525 October 1415) was an English nobleman, the eldest son of Michael de la Pole, 2nd Earl of Suffolk and Katherine de Stafford. He brought 20 men-at-arms and 60 archers to France in 1415, in company ...

. * Sir Robert Goushill or Gousell of

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(d. 21 July 1403), married before 19 August 1401. **Elizabeth Goushill or Gousell (b.c. 1402), wife of Sir

Robert Wingfield Sir Robert Wingfield (died 1454), of Letheringham in Suffolk, was an English landowner, administrator and politician.G. E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors. The C ...

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(c. 1403–1451), they were great-grandparents to

. **Joan or Jean Goushill or Gousell (b. 1409), wife of

Thomas Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley Sir Thomas Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley, titular King of Mann, KG (c. 1405 – 11 or 20 February 1459), of Lathom and Knowsley, Lancashire, was a Privy Councillor, Comptroller of the Royal Household, Lieutenant-Governor of Ireland (1431–36), ...

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, and parents of

. Through their daughter Katherine, they are ancestors of U.S. President

James Madison James Madison (June 28, 1836) was an American statesman, diplomat, and Founding Fathers of the United States, Founding Father who served as the fourth president of the United States from 1809 to 1817. Madison was popularly acclaimed as the ...

. *Sir Gerard Usflete, son of Sir

Gerard Usflete {{Use dmy dates, date=April 2022 Sir Gerard de Usflete, (c.1346–1406) of North Ferriby and Ousefleet, Yorkshire, was a Member of Parliament for Yorkshire in 1401. Career He was the son and heir of Sir Gerard Usflete (died. c.1363) of North Fer ...

(d. 1406), MP, married before 3 July 1414. She died 8 July 1425 in

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, Yorkshire, and was buried with her third husband in St. Michael's Church, Hoveringham, Nottinghamshire.

Ancestry

External links

Assignment of Dower
#306, dated 1400.

References

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