Ancestry of
Christopher Reeve

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John de Mowbray

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• • 19th Great-grandfather of Christopher Reeve — 22nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2244570 
  • Father:
  • John de Mowbray 
  • Mother:
  • Joan of Lancaster   
  • Birth Date:
  • 25 Jun 1340 
  • Birth Location:
  • Epworth, Lincolnshire, England 
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  • Death Date:
  • from Jun 1368 to Oct 1368 
  • Death Location:
  • Thrace (near Constantinople) 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth de Segrave
  • Marriage Date:
  • 25 Mar 1349 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Eleanor de Mowbray

  Thomas Mowbray

  Joan de Mowbray

  Margaret Mowbray (Ahnentafel No:1122285 )

  • Notes: 

  • 4th Baron Mowbray

    John de Mowbray was slain by the Saracens in 1368. Saracens was a term used during the Crusades to refer to people opposed to Christianity. Christian writers often associated it with Arabs or Muslims.

• Sources for John de Mowbray

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 2007, Vol. 161, p. 34.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1961, Vol. 37, p. 114.
  • ³ Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2013), Vol. V, p. 331.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 259, 263, 267, 282, 291, 302, 338, 344, 349, 356.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants to the American Colonies, Quebec, or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company (2018), 486.
  • ⁶ Weis, Frederick Lewis, et. al., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, 8th Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2004), 23-24, 199.
  • ⁷ Weis, Frederick Lewis, et. al., The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215: The Barons Named in the Magna Charta, 1215 and Some of their . . ., 5th edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (Third Printing, 2006), 82, 101.

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