Earl of Lancaster's execution following defeat at the Battle of Boroughbridge on 16 March 1322. He was convicted and imprisoned in Kenilworth Castle, and later Pontefract Castle, before he was released in 1324. Rather than killing his wife's husband at Newton-le-Willows, it was Sir William Bradshaigh who was slain there on 16 August 1333 in a fight with members of the Radcliffe family. There is no evidence that Lady Mabel remarried, either before or after her husband's death, or that she did penance at the cross. After her husband's death she funded the creation of two chantry chapels at Blackrod and Wigan. A figure kneeling before a wayside cross featured on her tomb and within 50 years of her death Mab's Cross had taken on her name suggesting there was a connection. See also Grade II* listed buildings in Greater Manchester Scheduled Monuments in Greater Manchester Listed buildings in Wigan References Grade II* listed buildings in Greater Manchester Buildings and structures in Wigan Scheduled monuments in Greater Manchester History of Wigan