Background
He was the younger son of Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, and succeeded his elder brother Thomas as 5th Earl of Norfolk and 3rd Earl of Nottingham in 1405.
He was the younger son of Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, and succeeded his elder brother Thomas as 5th Earl of Norfolk and 3rd Earl of Nottingham in 1405.
He also received the remaining lands confiscated when the Mowbrays opposed the seizure of the throne by Henry IV. In 1415 he sat in judgment on Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge. In 1425 he was restored to his father"s confiscated Dukedom of Norfolk. He went to France with King Henry V and took part in the siege of Harfleur.
He was too ill to fight at Agincourt.
He died in 1432 at Epworth, Lincolnshire, where his father had founded a monastery.
