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Mowbray Barony held with Seagrave Barony, Stourton Barony
Arms of Stourton, Barons Mowbray: Sable, a bend or between six fountains
Creation date	1283 (abeyant 1481-84, forfeit 1485-1554, 1572-1604, abeyant 1777-1878)
Created by	Edward I (original creation) Edward IV (terminated abeyance) Mary I (restored) James I (restored) Victoria (terminated abeyance)
Peerage	Peerage of England
First holder	Roger de Mowbray, 1st Baron Mowbray
Present holder	James Stourton, 26th or 28th Baron Mowbray
Heir presumptive	four co-heiresses
Remainder to	heirs general of the body of the grantee
Subsidiary titles	Baron Seagrave Baron Stourton

Baron Mowbray is a title in the Peerage of England. It was created by writ for Roger de Mowbray in 1283. The title was united with the Barony of Segrave in 1368, when John Mowbray, 1st Earl of Nottingham and 5th Baron Mowbray, succeeded to that title. His successor was named Duke of Norfolk. With the childless death of Anne Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk, in c.1481, the Barony went into abeyance between the Howard and Berkeley families, and both styled themselves Baron Mowbray and Seagrave.

In 1639, Henry Frederick Howard, later 22nd Earl of Arundel, was summoned to Parliament as Baron Mowbray, which by modern usage would have represented a novel peerage, but an 1877 House of Lords ruling viewed this as affirmation of the prior termination of the abeyance of the original title. The Mowbray barony held by the Howard family fell into abeyance in 1777 with the death of Edward Howard, 9th Duke of Norfolk.

In 1877 the senior co-heir, Alfred Stourton, Lord Stourton, petitioned the House of Lords to have the abeyance terminated in his favour, and though the original claim was for the resolution of the abeyance of the 1639 grant, a subsequently amended petition made a broader claim. A c.1484 royal letter in which John Howard, Duke of Norfolk, was given the assumed titles of Baron Mowbray and Seagrave was used as evidence that the abeyance of the 1283 peerage had been terminated in Howard's favour; there was no Berkeley representative in the hearing to point out that family had also used those assumed titles. The Committee for Privileges in the Mowbray-Seagrave Case ruled in Stourton's favour, and in 1878 the original Barony of Mowbray, and then two weeks later the associated Barony of Seagrave, were called out of abeyance in favour of Lord Stourton.

Thereafter, the Baronies of Mowbray and Seagrave were united with that of Stourton, and twice in the 20th century was briefly the premier barony of England when the only older title, the Barony of de Ros (created by writ in 1264), became abeyant before being called out of abeyance in favour of the senior co-heirs.

Barons Mowbray (1283)

• Roger de Mowbray, 1st Baron Mowbray (d. 1297)
• John de Mowbray, 2nd Baron Mowbray (d. 1322)
• John de Mowbray, 3rd Baron Mowbray (1310–1361)
• John de Mowbray, 4th Baron Mowbray (1340–1368)
• John Mowbray, 1st Earl of Nottingham, 5th Baron Mowbray (1365–1379)
• Thomas Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, 6th Baron Mowbray (1366–1399)
• Thomas Mowbray, 4th Earl of Norfolk, 7th Baron Mowbray (1385–1405)
• John Mowbray, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, 8th Baron Mowbray (1392–1432)
• John Mowbray, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, 9th Baron Mowbray (1415–1461)
• John Mowbray, 4th Duke of Norfolk, 10th Baron Mowbray (1444–1476)
• Anne Mowbray, Duchess of Norfolk, 8th Countess of Norfolk, 11th Baroness Mowbray (1472-c.1481), in abeyance 1481
• John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk, 12th Baron Mowbray (1420–1485), called out of abeyance c. 1484, forfeit 1485
• Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, 13th Baron Mowbray (1538–1572), restored 1554, forfeit 1572
• Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, 14th Baron Mowbray (1585–1646), restored 1604
• Henry Frederick Howard, 22nd Earl of Arundel, 15th Baron Mowbray (1608–1652), summoned to parliament as Lord Mowbray, 1639
• Thomas Howard, 5th Duke of Norfolk, 16th Baron Mowbray (1627–1677)
• Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk, 17th Baron Mowbray (1628–1684)
• Henry Howard, 7th Duke of Norfolk, 18th Baron Mowbray (1654–1701), summoned to parliament as Lord Mowbray, 1678
• Thomas Howard, 8th Duke of Norfolk, 19th Baron Mowbray (1683–1732)
• Edward Howard, 9th Duke of Norfolk, 20th Baron Mowbray (1686–1777), abeyant 1777
• Alfred Joseph Stourton, 21st/23rd Baron Mowbray (1829–1893) (Lords: Mowbray-Segrave Case 1877. Abeyance terminated 1878. Family Tree by Stephen Tucker College of Arms 1878)
• Charles Botolph Joseph Stourton, 22nd/24th Baron Mowbray (1867–1936)
• William Marmaduke Stourton, 23rd/25th Baron Mowbray (1895–1965)
• Charles Edward Stourton, 24th/26th Baron Mowbray (1923–2006)
• Edward William Stephen Stourton, 25th/27th Baron Mowbray (1953–2021)
• James Charles Peter Stourton, 26th/28th Baron Mowbray (b. 1991)

The present Baron's four sisters are his co-heiresses presumptive.

Family tree

References

1. Debrett's Peerage, 1968, p.807, Baron Mowbray
2. ^ George E. Cokayne, (H. A. Doubleday and Lord Howard de Walden, eds.), The Complete Peerage, New edition, vol. 9 (1936), pp. 376-388, and Appendix G, pp. 45-57
3. Lords Journals, 27 July 1877, Volume 109, P339
4. Lords Journals, 27 July 1877, Volume 109, P339

• Burke's Peerage

See also

• Baron Segrave
• Baron Stourton
• Earl of Norfolk
• Duke of Norfolk
• Earl of Nottingham

v t e Extant baronies in the Peerage of England
King Henry III	de Ros^
King Edward I	Mowbray Hastings FitzWalter Segrave Clinton de Clifford
King Edward II	Zouche Willoughby de Eresby Strabolgi Dacre
King Edward III	Darcy de Knayth Cromwell
King Richard II	Camoys Grey of Codnor
King Henry V	Berkeley
King Henry VI	Latimer Dudley Saye and Sele Stourton Berners
King Edward IV	Herbert
King Henry VII	Willoughby de Broke
King Henry VIII	Vaux of Harrowden Braye Burgh Wharton
Queen Elizabeth I	St John of Bletso Howard de Walden
King James I	Petre Dormer Teynham
King Charles I	Strange Stafford Byron
King Charles II	Lucas Arlington Clifford of Chudleigh
King William III	Barnard
^This barony was created by Simon de Montfort, who, in the King's name, issued writs of summons to a parliament to attempt to stabilise his position during the Second Barons' War. This barony was given its precedence by the House of Lords in 1806.

• Baronies in the Peerage of England
• Baronies by writ
• 1283 establishments in England
• Noble titles created in 1283
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