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JOHN MOWBRAY (1390-1432)

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 743 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN MOWBRAY (1390-1432)  , and duke,
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brother of the last-named, now became
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earl marshal and earl of Nottingham . He sat in
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judgment upon Richard, earl of Cambridge, and the other rebels in 1415, and went to France with Henry V . He took
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part in the siege of
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Harfleur, but illness prevented him from fighting at Agincourt . He saw service in France in subsequent years, and after Henry's
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death he was a member of the
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English governing council . In 1424 he followed Humphrey, duke of Gloucester, on his
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campaign in Hainaut, and in 1425 he secured his recognition as duke of Norfolk . He died on the 19th of
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October 1432 at Epworth, where his
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father had founded a Cistercian priory . By his wife Catherine, daughter of Ralph Neville; 1st earl of Westmorland, he
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left an only son, the 3rd duke .

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