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Lady Isabelle Berkeley (de Mowbray)

Also Known As: "Isabel Mowbray /Ferrers/", "Isabel /Mowbray/"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Epworth, Lincolnshire, England (United Kingdom)
Death: September 29, 1452 (51-60)
Berkeley Castle, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England (United Kingdom)
Place of Burial: Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk and Elizabeth FitzAlan, Duchess of Norfolk
Wife of James de Berkeley "The Just", 1st Baron Berkeley and Henry Ferrers - 6th Baron Ferrers of Groby
Ex-partner of Sir Robert Howard
Mother of Alice Arthur (de Berkley); Elizabeth de Berkeley; Sir William de Berkeley, 7th Lord Berkeley; James de Berkeley, Lord; Maurice Berkeley and 6 others
Sister of Thomas de Mowbray, 4th Earl of Norfolk; John de Mowbray, 2nd Duke of Norfolk; Elizabeth de Mowbray, Countess of Suffolk and Lady Margaret de Mowbray
Half sister of Joan Goushill, Baroness of Stanley; Elizabeth Goushill, Lady Wingfield; Joyce Goushill; Margaret Howard and Isabel Goushilll

Managed by: Patricia Norton Chong
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About Lady Isabelle Berkeley

http://thepeerage.com/p1695.htm#i16949 (source)

http://www.gurganus.org/ourfamily/browse.cfm?fid=31680 (source)

Lady Isabel Mowbray was born after 1400.

She was the daughter of Thomas Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk and Elizabeth Fitzalan.

She married, firstly, Henry Ferrers, son of Sir William Ferrers, 3rd Lord Ferrers (of Groby), before 1424.

She married, secondly, James de Berkeley, 1st Lord Berkeley, son of Sir James de Berkeley and Elizabeth Bluet, in 1423/24.3 She died on 27 September 1452 at Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England.

She was buried at Greyfriars, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England.

From before 1424, her married name became Ferrers.3 From 1423/24, her married name became de Berkeley.

She was arrested by order of Margaret, Countess of Shrewsbury, and imprisoned at Gloucester.

Children of Lady Isabel Mowbray and James de Berkeley, 1st Lord Berkeley

James Berkeley

Thomas Berkeley+ d. 14844

William de Berkeley, 1st and last Marquess of Berkeley+ b. 1426, d. 14 Feb 1491/925

Sir Maurice Berkeley+ b. c 1436, d. Sep 1506


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Isabel MOWBRAY (AFN: 8J5D-KG) Pedigree

Sex:  F  Family    

Event(s)

Birth:   Abt 1396   

Of, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
Death: 29 Sep 1452
Berkeley Castle, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England
Burial: Greyfriars, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England
Parents

Father:  Thomas De MOWBRAY (AFN: 8J5J-FB)  

Mother: Elizabeth FITZALAN (AFN: 8J5B-TK)
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Marriage(s)

Spouse:  James De BERKELEY (AFN: 8489-0L)  Family  

Marriage: 1423/1424
Berkeley Castle, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England
Spouse: Henry FERRERS (AFN: 8J4M-DG) Family
Marriage: 1416
Of, , , England
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Husband's Name

James De BERKELEY (AFN:8489-0L)  Pedigree  

Born: Abt 1394 Place: Raglan, Monmouthshire, England
Christened: 23 Jan 1403 Place: Berkeley Castle, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England
Died: Nov/Dec 1463 Place: Berkeley Castle, , Gloucestershire, England
Buried: Place: Church, Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire, England
Married: 1423/1424 Place: Berkeley Castle, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England
Father: James De BERKELEY (AFN:9220-P8) Family
Mother: Elizabeth BLUET (AFN:8489-34)
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Wife's Name

Isabel MOWBRAY (AFN:8J5D-KG)  Pedigree  

Born: Abt 1396 Place: Of, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
Died: 29 Sep 1452 Place: Berkeley Castle, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England
Buried: Place: Greyfriars, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England
Married: 1423/1424 Place: Berkeley Castle, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England
Father: Thomas De MOWBRAY (AFN:8J5J-FB)
Mother: Elizabeth FITZALAN (AFN:8J5B-TK)
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Children

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1.  Sex  Name    

F Elizabeth BERKELEY (AFN:8489-BB) Pedigree
Born: Abt 1420 Place: Of, , Gloucestershire, England
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2.  Sex  Name    

F Isabel De BERKELEY (AFN:9F9S-LJ) Pedigree
Born: Abt 1422 Place: Gloucestershire, England
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3.  Sex  Name    

F Alice BERKELEY (AFN:8489-DN) Pedigree
Born: Abt 1424 Place: Of, , Gloucestershire, England
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4.  Sex  Name    

M James De BERKELEY (AFN:9F9S-H1) Pedigree
Born: Abt 1428 Place: Of, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England
Died: KILLED Place: Sp, , , France
Buried: Place: Church, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England
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5.  Sex  Name    

M Maurice BERKELEY (AFN:8J5D-FR) Pedigree
Born: Abt 1436 Place: Of, Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire, England
Died: Sep 1506 Place: Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire, England
Buried: Place: Austin Friars, London, Middlesex, England
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6.  Sex  Name    

M Thomas De BERKELEY (AFN:9F9S-J6) Pedigree
Born: Abt 1437 Place: Of, Dursley, Gloucestershire, England
Died: 2 Jul 1484 Place: , Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England
Buried: Place: , Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England
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7.  Sex  Name    

M William De BERKELEY (AFN:9F9G-3K) Pedigree
Born: 1426 Place: Castle, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England
Christened: Place: Sps
Died: 14 Feb 1491/1492 Place: Sanctuary, Westminster, Middlesex, England
Buried: Place: St Agustine Friars, London, Middlesex, England
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Husband's Name

Henry FERRERS (AFN:8J4M-DG)  Pedigree   

Born: Abt 1390 Place: Raglan, Monmouthshire, England
Died: 1463 Place: Raglan, Nonmouthshire, England
Married: 1416 Place: Of, , , England
Father: William FERRARS (AFN:B3DJ-NF) Family
Mother: Philippa CLIFFORD (AFN:8J4M-C9)
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Wife's Name

Isabel MOWBRAY (AFN:8J5D-KG)  Pedigree  

Born: Abt 1396 Place: Of, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
Died: 29 Sep 1452 Place: Berkeley Castle, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England
Buried: Place: Greyfriars, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England
Married: 1416 Place: Of, , , England
Father: Thomas De MOWBRAY (AFN:8J5J-FB) Family
Mother: Elizabeth FITZALAN (AFN:8J5B-TK)
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Children

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1.  Sex  Name    

F Elizabeth FERRERS (AFN:8J5J-D5) Pedigree
Born: Abt. 1418 Place: Of, Groby, Leicestershire, England
Died: 1482/1483 Place:
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 M Maurice FERRERS (AFN:B3DF-48)  Pedigree  

Born: Abt 1420 Place: Of, Berkeley, Kent, England
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Sir James de BERKELEY Lord Berkeley [Parents] 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 was born 1394 in Raglan, Monmouthshire, Wales. He died Nov 1463 in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England. James married Isabel de MOWBRAY on 1424 in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England.

Other marriages:

St. JOHN, N.N.

STAFFORD, N.N.

TALBOT, Joan

Isabel de MOWBRAY [Parents] 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 was born 1396 in Epworth, Lincolnshire, England. She died 29 Sep 1452 in Gloucester Castle, Gloucestershire, England. Isabel married Sir James de BERKELEY Lord Berkeley on 1424 in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England.

Other marriages:

FERRERS, Henry Knight

They had the following children:

		F	i	 Elizabeth BERKELEY was born 1425.

M ii Sir William BERKELEY Earl of Nottingham was born 1427 and died 14 Feb 1492.
M iii James BERKELEY Esquire 1, 2, 3 was born 1429 in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England.
F iv Alice BERKELEY was born 1432.
M v Sir Maurice BERKELEY Lord Berkeley was born 1435 and died Sep 1506.
M vi Thomas BERKELEY Esquire was born 1435 and died 2 Jul 1484.
F vii Isabel BERKELEY was born 1438 and died before 3 Sep 1482.


Lady Isabel de Mowbray[1,2,3,4]

 - 1452

Honorific Lady

Sex Female

Lived In England

Complete *

Died 23 Sep 1452 Gloucester Castle

Buried Gloucester, Grey Friars

Person ID I00026826 Leo

Last Modified 21 Aug 1996

Father Thomas de Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, b. 22 Mar 1366/1368

Mother Lady Elizabeth Fitzalan

Family ID F00011595 Group Sheet

Family 1 Sir Henry Ferrers, of Groby

Married Bef 13 Jul 1416

Children

1. Elizabeth Ferrers, Heiress of Groby, b. Abt 1419

Last Modified 07 Jun 1998

Family ID F00011655 Group Sheet

Family 2 James Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley, b. 1394, Raglan, Monmouthshire

Married 1423/1424

Children

1. Sir Thomas Berkeley, of Dursley

	2. Elizabeth Berkeley

3. Isabel Berkeley

	4. Alice Berkeley

5. William Berkeley, 1st Marquess Berkeley, b. 1426, Berkeley Castle

	6. James Berkeley, b. Abt 1430, (?) 

7. Maurice Berkeley, 3rd Lord Berkeley, b. Abt 1434/1435
Last Modified 21 Aug 1996

Family ID F00011654 Group Sheet

Sources 1. [S00058] The Complete Peerage, 1936 , Doubleday, H.A. & Lord Howard de Walden, Reference: II 132

2. [S00010] A Genealogical History of the dormant, abeyant, forfeited and extinct peerages of the British Empire, London, 1866, Burke, Sir Bernard, Reference: 387

3. [S00120] Cahiers de Saint Louis , Dupont, Jacques and Saillot, Jacques, Reference: 409, 971

4. [S00123] ~Living descendants of Blood Royal in America , Angerville, Count d', Reference: III 34



Isabel Mowbray Ferrers
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Photos Flowers Edit Share Learn about upgrading this memorial... Birth: 1396 Gloucestershire, England Death: Sep. 29, 1452 Gloucester Gloucestershire, England

Daughter of Thomas Mowbray and Eleanor FitzAlan. Her father was a Crusader who died in Venice Italy of the Plague. Find A Grave contributor Anne Shurtleff Stevens added the following bio:

"Wife of Sir Henry de Ferrers, married shortly before 13 July 1416, and mother of Elizabeth, who would marry Sir Edward Grey. Secondly, she was the third wife of Sir James Berkeley and mother of four sons and three daughters: Sir William, Knight of the Bath and Earl Marshal of Nottingham Sir Maurice, Knight of the Body of the King m Isabel de Meade James, Thomas, Elizabeth, wife of William Burdet, Esq. Isabel, wife of William Tyre, Esq., Alice, wife of Richard Arthur, Esq.

Isabel died at Gloucester Castle where she had been imprisoned by Margaret Talbot, the Countess of Shrewsbury as repercussion for Isabel's husband sacking Margaret's manor at Wotton-under-Edge in Gloucestershire, where Margaret's son sacked Henry's Berkeley castle in 1452 and took him prisoner."

Find A Grave contributor Todd Whitesides added: She died in Gloucester Castle on Michaelmas-day (Sept. 29th), 1452.

Family links:

Parents:
 Thomas Mowbray (1367 - 1399)
 Elizabeth Fitzalan (1371 - 1425)

Spouse:

 James Berkeley (1394 - 1463)*

Children:

 Maurice de Berkeley (1436 - 1506)*
 Thomas Berkeley (1472 - 1533)*

*Calculated relationship

Burial: Grey Friar Gloucester Gloucestershire, England Plot: Chapels, monastery and cemetery mostly in ruins. Many graves excavated, but no markers.


  • Reference:
  • https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Berkeley-38
  • Sir James "1st Lord Berkeley" Berkeley
  • Born 1394 in Raglan, Monmouthshire, Walesmap
  • Son of James Berkeley and Elizabeth Bluet
  • Brother of Maurice Berkeley
  • Husband of Unknown (Stafford) de Berkeley — married 1415 in Englandmap
  • Husband of 'Isabel (Mowbray) Berkeley — married about 1424 in England'
  • Husband of Joan (Talbot) Berkeley — married before 1457 [location unknown]
  • Father of Alice (Berkeley) Arthur, James Berkeley, William Berkeley KB, Maurice Berkeley, Thomas (Berkeley) de Berkeley, Elizabeth (Berkeley) Burdett and Isabel (Berkeley) Trye
  • Died Dec 1463 in Berkeley Castle, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England
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Lady Isabelle Berkeley's Timeline

1396
1396
Epworth, Lincolnshire, England (United Kingdom)
1412
1412
Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom
1418
1418
Groby, Leicestershire, England (United Kingdom)
1420
1420
Groby, Leicestershire, England
1421
1421
Halifax, Yorkshire, , England
1421
Yorkshire,, Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
1426
1426
Thornbury, Gloucestershire, , England
1428
1428
Berkeley, Gloucestershire, , England