Thomas Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk

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Thomas Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, KG (22 March 1366 – 22 September 1399) was an English landowner and peer. His family was a venerable one, and by the time Thomas reached adulthood, they were extremely influential in national politics. He claimed a direct bloodline from King Edward I. His father died when Thomas and his elder brother John were young. John soon died, and Thomas inherited the Earldom of Nottingham. He had probably been friends with the king, Richard II, since he was young, and as a result, he was a royal favourite, a role he greatly profited from. He accompanied Richard on his travels around the kingdom and was elected to the Order of the Garter. Richard's lavish dispersal of his patronage made him unpopular with parliament and other members of the English nobility, and Mowbray fell out badly with the king's uncle, John of Gaunt. Mowbray journeyed into Scotland with the king when he invaded in 1385, although it is possible that their friendship was waning at this point...

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