Henry de Motlowe

Henry de Motlowe (died 1361) was an English-born judge who briefly held office as Lord Chief Justice of Ireland.

He was born in Cheshire, to a family from Nether Alderley. His surname suggests that there was also a family link with the village of Mobberley, five miles from Alderley, which was called Motburlege in the Domesday Book. He owned lands at Church Lawton, (then known as Bog-Lawton): in 1338 one Ralph de Lawton gave a quitclaim (i.e. a formal renunciation of his own claim) for all lands which were held in Church Lawton by Henry and his heirs.

St. Mary's Church, Nether Alderley, where de Motlowe's family originated

He was already a senior official of the English Crown by 1346, when he appears on a commission in London to investigate the forgery of the Royal seal.

Motlowe died in 1361.