Born about in Ravensworth, Yorkshire, England
Ancestors 
Daughter of William FitzHugh
and Margery (Willoughby) FitzHugh
Sister of
Margery (FitzHugh) Melton, Elizabeth (FitzHugh) Greystoke, Lora (FitzHugh) Constable, Henry FitzHugh, Eleanor (FitzHugh) Dacre, Lucy FitzHugh and Joan (FitzHugh) le Scrope
Wife of
William Bowes
— married
about 1445 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Mother of
Margaret (Bowes) Lisle, Joan (Bowes) Bulmer, Ralph Bowes, Ann (Bowes) Wycliffe, Margery (Bowes) Hilton and Robert Bowes
Died after
after about age 38
in Streatlam, Durham, England
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Biography
Maud (FitzHugh) Bowes was born in England.
- Maud FitzHugh was the daughter of Sir William FitzHugh of Ravensworth and his wife Margery Willoughby, daughter of the 5th Lord Willoughby de Eresby and Lucy le Strange.
- She married Sir William Bowes of Streatlam (sheriff of NBL), son and heir of Sir William Bowes and Joan Greystoke.[1]
- They had 5 sons and 6 daughters:
- William Esq
- Robert
- Thomas
- Sir Ralph
- Henry
- Margery, wife of Sir William Hilton
- Joan, wife of Sir Ralph Bulmer
- Katherine, wife of Sir Richard Conyers (see query below)
- Margaret, wife of Sir Humphrey Lisle.[2]
- Isabel, wife of John Swinnow (or Swinhoe)
- Anne, wife of Ralph Wycliffe.
- Maud was living when her husband died on 28 July 1466.
- Query. Maud's son Sir Ralph married Margery Conyers, daughter and co-heiress of Sir Richard Conyers of South Cowton and his wife Alice Wycliffe. This Sir Richard reportedly built the church and "Castle" at South Cowton, ca. 1450-1470. He or another Sir Richard is said to have cleared and demolished the village there in 1489-90.
- So did Sir Ralph's sister Katherine become a late 2nd wife of Sir Ralph's father-in-law? (Many similar cases of a man marrying his son-in-law's sister have been noted.) Or did Katherine marry a man from a different branch of the clan?
- Effigies in the church are said to be those of Sir Richard and his two wives, but are described elsewhere as those of Sir Christopher Boynton (of Sedbury) and his two wives.
Sources
- Foster, Joseph. Pedigrees recorded at the visitations of the county palatine of Durham. 1887. Pg. 37. Archive.org. [3]
- Doubleday, H. A. The Complete Peerage Vol-vii. 1929. Pg. 30. Archive.org. [4]
- Longstaffe, William Hylton. The history and antiquities of the parish of Darlington. 1854. Pg. 430. Archive.org. [5]
- Royal Ancestry by Douglas Richardson Vol. I page 493
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