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    From Jim Maples@21:1/5 to All on Fri Nov 26 18:04:37 2021
    On Wednesday, April 22, 2020 at 3:36:40 PM UTC-5, TJ Booth_sbc wrote:
    In 2004, Douglas Hickling wrote a well researched article 'Which John de Mowbray was the Brother of Christiana de Plumpton?'[1] The article sought to identify the family of Christiana based on a Close Rolls record[2] that “John de Mowbray, her
    brother” helped her claim her Emeldon dower in Dec 1333. The article concluded “it is more likely than not that John I, Lord Mowbray, was Christiana's father and John II, Lord Mowbray, was her brother.” The most significant evidence against that
    conclusion were several lawsuits by John II against Plumpton. Perhaps based on those lawsuits, the ‘William Plumpton’ entry in Richardson’s 2013 Royal Ancestry includes a footnote that 'it has been impossible to place Christiana with any certainty'
    in the Mowbray family.[3]

    I recently had reason to revisit the question. Two items in particular bothered me. Given John I Lord Mowbray’s enormous wealth – and that Christiana was said to m. 1st husband John Scot before Mowbray was hung in Mar 1322 (after Battle of
    Boroughbridge) – why were none of her father’s lands found in Christiana’s meager dower? Secondly, Christiana m. second husband Richard Emildon about or shortly after her father was hung. Following his death, Edw II imprisoned Mowbray’s wife and
    son John II in the Tower of London. Contrast this with Christiana and Emildon having an only child, Jacoba, bapt 23 Mar 1324/25, just 3 years after Boroughbridge. Given that Emildon was a trusted supporter of Edward II and helped the king confiscate and
    redistribute rebel properties, the two families would appear to hold very dis-similar political views and friends.

    Hickling’s article also noted “had there not been a far more likely contender, John de Mowbray [son of William] of Easby would be regarded as Christiana's probable brother.” I have now found a record which makes it far more likely that John de
    Mowbray of Easby was her brother, thereby making William de Mowbray and Agnes of Easby her parents,[4] not the Mowbrays of Axholme.

    "#363. Friday St. Peter ad vincula, 17 Edward III [Aug. 1,1343]. Release and quitclaim by Eustachia, widow of Peter de Middelton, knt., to Sir William de Plumpton, knt., of all right in all the lands, tenements and rents with appurtenances in the vill
    of Plumpton and in the field of the said vill, which is called Rufferlington, which once belonged to Henry Beaufitz, knt. Warranty. Sealing clause. Witnesses: Robert Ros of Ingmanthorpe, John son of William de Moubray, Walter de Kereby, John de Middelton,
    Richard de Middelton. At Plumpton. "[5]

    All of the non-Mowbray people mentioned were close relatives and family of Sir William de Plumpton. Eustachia, Middelton’s widow, was Sir William’s sister. Henry Beaufitz was father of Alice, Sir William’s first wife. Sir William’s mother was
    Lucy de Ros of Ingmanthorpe, making Robert [de] Ros his 1st cousin.[6] Kereby was a frequent witness to Plumpton property records.

    This is the only Plumpton record containing the name Mowbray. But Hickling established there was only 1 John son of William de Mowbray at this time. Thus a new question - is there now sufficient evidence to conclude it was John de Mowbray, son of
    William of Easby, who was the brother of Christiana, wife of Sir William de Plumpton?

    Terry Booth
    Chicago IL

    Footnotes
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    1. See Douglas Hickling, medievalgenealogy.org.uk/sources/mowbray/christiana1.shtml .
    2. CCR Edw III iii:185.
    3. Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, 2013, iv:388 fn 20[sub Plumpton].
    4. Not much appears known about the early Mowbray of Easby family. John Watson had a 2013 SGM post which cited most of the known records for the family. See groups.google.com/d/msg/soc.genealogy.medieval/aDqDGCBe2zM/ZFL8H9EGGUsJ His est. birth date for
    John son of William should be moved a few years earlier.
    5. MJ Stanley Price (Editor), 'Yorkshire Deeds Vol 10', Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record Series, Vol 120 (1953):129.
    6. Lucy [de Ros] de Plumpton was dau of Sir William de Ros of Ingmanthorpe by Eustachia FitzRalph. Lucy's dau Eustachia de Plumpton was obviously named for Lucy’s mother. Lucy’s brother, another William, d. bef 12 Nov 1334, thus making his son
    Robert, d. 1393, the heir of Ingmanthorpe as well as the witness here.

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