Mowbray, Margaret (fl. 1400)

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Mowbray, Margaret (fl. 1400)

English aristocrat. Name variations: Margaret de Mowbray; Margaret Howard. Flourished in the 1400s; daughter of Thomas Mowbray (c. 1362–1399), 1st duke of Norfolk, and Elizabeth Fitzalan (d. 1425); married Robert Howard, before 1420; children: John Howard (1420–1485), 1st duke of Norfolk (r. 1483–1485); Margaret Howard (who married Thomas Danyell, baron of Rathwire); Catherine Howard (d. after 1478, who married Edward Neville, baron Abergavenny).

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