Roger de Mowbray (Lord of Montbray)

Roger de Mowbray
Arms of Roger de Mowbray - gules, a lion rampant argent
Born	c. 1120
Died	1188 Tyre, Lebanon
Title	Lord of Montbray
Nationality	English
Wars and battles	Battle of the Standard Battle of Lincoln (1141) Second Crusade Revolt of 1173–74 Battle of Hattin
Parents	Nigel d'Aubigny and Gundreda de Gournay

Roger de Mowbray (c. 1120–1188) was an English noble, described by Horace Round as

a great lord with a hundred knight's fees, was captured with King Stephen at the Battle of Lincoln (1141), joined the rebellion against Henry II (1173), founded abbeys, and went on crusade.

Roger was the son of Nigel d'Aubigny by his second wife, Gundreda de Gournay.

On his father's death in 1129 he became a ward of the crown. Based at Thirsk with his mother, on reaching his majority in 1138, he took his paternal grandmother's surname of Mowbray and title to the lands awarded to his father by Henry I both in Normandy including Montbray, as well as the substantial holdings in Yorkshire and around Melton.

Soon after, in 1138, he participated in the Battle of the Standard against the Scots and, according to Aelred of Rievaulx, acquitted himself honourably.

Thereafter, Roger's military fortunes were mixed. Whilst acknowledged as a competent and prodigious fighter, he generally found himself on the losing side in his subsequent engagements. During the anarchic reign of King Stephen he was captured with Stephen at the battle of Lincoln in 1141.

Soon after his release, Roger married Alice de Gant (d. c. 1181), daughter of Walter de Gant and widow of Ilbert de Lacy, and by whom he had two sons, Nigel and Robert. Roger also had at least one daughter, donating his lands at Granville to the Abbeye des Dames in Caen when she became a nun there.