Eleanor (Mowbray) de Welles (bef. 1361 - bef. 1417)

Born before 1361 in Epworth, Isle Of Axholme, Lincolnshire, England

Ancestors

Wife of John (Welles) de Welles — married before 1368 in England

Descendants

Died before 13 Aug 1417 at about age 56 in Epworth, Isle Axholme, Lincolnshire, England

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Biography

Eleanor Mowbray^[1][2] Her birth date is uncertain. Cokayne says she was born shortly before 25 March 1364.^[2] Richardson says she was born before 1361:^[1] this is discussed in a 2002 thread in soc.genealogy.medieval^[3] Cokayne's date is probably based on a Patent Rolls entry of 28 April 1369 recording the formal grant of an annuity to John de Disworth on 25 March 1364 (the Feast of the Annunciation, 38 Edward III) for announcing the delivery of his first daughter Eleanor;^[4] as discussed in the soc.genealogy.medieval thread, this does not necessarily mean that Eleanor was born shortly before 25 March 1364, and other evidence points to an earlier birth date.

Parents: Sir John de Mowbray, 4th Lord Mowbray, son and heir of Sir John de Mowbray by Joan of Lancaster, and Elizabeth, suo jure Lady Segrave, daughter and heiress of Sir John de Segrave, 4th Lord Segrave, by Margaret, daughter and co-heiress of Sir Thomas of Brotherton, Earl of Norfolk, Marshal of England (younger son of King Edward I of England)^[1]

parents' married by papal dispensation dated 25 March 1349^[1]

Husband: Sir John Welles (or Welle), 5th Lord Welles, son of Sir John de Welle, 4th Lord Welles, of Cumberworth and Skendleby, Lincolnshire, Faxton, Northamptonshire, etc., and his wife Maud de Roos (or Ros), daughter of Sir William de Roos, 2nd Lord Roos of Helmsley, by Margery de Badlesmere.^[1]

married before 1368^[5]

Children

• Eudes (or Ives) married Maud Greystoke^[1]
• Eleanor married (1) Sir Hugh Poynings, (2) Sir Godfrey Hilton^[1]

Eleanor (Mowbray) Welles died before August 1417 (John marred his second wife "shortly before August 13, 1417"). John de Welles died August 26, 1421. His widow, Margaret, died April 8, 1426.^[1] Cokayne says she "may have been living in 1399."^[2]

Research Notes

Marriage Date

G E Cokayne gives the date of John's first marriage as before 1386, even though he cites a charter said to be of the period 1361-1368.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7} Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), Vol IV, pp 187-188, MOWBRAY #6; Vol V, pp 331-332, WELLES #10, #11 John Welles
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} Cokayne, G E. Complete Peerage, revised edition, Vol XII Part II, St Catherine Press, 1959, pp. 442-443, viewable on Familysearch
3. ↑ soc.genealogy.medieval, Another look at Margaret (Mowbray) Lucy
4. ↑ Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Edward III, A.D. 1367-1370, HMSO, 1913, p. 237, Hathi Trust
5. ↑ Wikipedia: Eleanor de Mowbray

• Weis, F.L. (1999). The Magna Charta Sureties 1215, (5th ed, pp. 82-9).
• Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry (2013), Vol. IV page 325