ROBERT

See also:

• MOWBRAY
• MOWBRAY, HARRY SIDDONS (1858– )
• ROBERT MOWBRAY (d. 1125)

MOWBRAY (d. 1125)  , a Norman who was appointed earl of Northumberland between 1o8o and 1082 . In 1o88 he and his uncle Geoffrey, bishop of Coutances, sided with Robert, duke of Normandy, against William Rufus, but they were pardoned at the close of the rebellion . In 1091 Mowbray defeated Malcolm Canmore of Scotland, who had invaded England, and in 1093 surprised and slew this king near Alnwick; soon after this event he succeeded to his uncle's vast estates . In 1095 he led a rebellion which had for its object the transference of the crown from the sons of the Conqueror to Stephen of Aumale . Rufus marched against the earl in person, and Mow-bray shut himself up in Bamborough Castle, but he was captured by treachery, escaped, and was captured again . He was then deprived of his possessions and kept a prisoner for the rest of his life, nearly thirty years . See E . A . Freeman, William Rufus, especially Appendices C . C . F . F .

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Oxford, 1882) .