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Roger de Mortimer, lord of Wigmore

Male 1232 - 1282  (50 years)


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  • Name Roger de Mortimer  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22] 
    Suffix lord of Wigmore 
    Born 1232  of, Wigmore, Herefordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 27 Oct 1282  Kingsland, , England Find all individuals with events at this location  [23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32] 
    Buried Abbey of Wigmore, Wigmore, Herefordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [24, 28] 
    Person ID P44554069  My Genealogy
    Last Modified 13 Dec 2016 

    Father Ralph de Mortimer, lord of Wigmore,   b. 1190, of, Wigmore, Herefordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 Aug 1246, Wigmore, Herefordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 56 years) 
    Mother Gwladus "Ddû" ferch Llywelyn "Mawr",   b. Abt 1200, of, , Caernarvonshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1251, Windsor, Berkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 51 years) 
    Married 1230  , , England Find all individuals with events at this location  [33, 34] 
    • STATUS: Wife's 2nd marriage. (Bradney, History of Monmouthshire, vol. 1 p. 150)
      STATUS: Widow of Reginald de Braose. (Evans, British Genealogist, book 8 p. H91)
    • STATUS: Wife's 2nd marriage. (Bradney, History of Monmouthshire, vol. 1 p. 150)
      STATUS: Widow of Reginald de Braose. (Evans, British Genealogist, book 8 p. H91)
    Family ID F100011272  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Maud de Briouze,   b. Abt 1230, of, Bramber, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 23 Mar 1300-1301  (Age 71 years) 
    Married Yes, date unknown  [27, 31] 
    • MARRIAGE: Married in or before 1247.
    • MARRIAGE: Married in or before 1247.
    Children 
     1. Roger de Mortimer, lord of Chirk and Genau'r-glyn,   b. Abt 1250, of, Chirk lordship, Swydd y Waun cantref, Denbighshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 3 Aug 1337, Tower of London, Stepney, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 87 years)
     2. Ralph de Mortimer,   b. Abt 1250, of, Wigmore, Herefordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 1282  (Age 31 years)
     3. Edmund de Mortimer, lord of Wigmore,   b. Abt 1270, of, Wigmore, Herefordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1302  (Age 32 years)
     4. William de Mortimer,   b. Abt 1250, of, Wigmore, Herefordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     5. Geoffrey de Mortimer,   b. Abt 1250, of, Wigmore, Herefordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 1282  (Age 31 years)
     6. Isabel de Mortimer, "Countess of Arundel",   b. Abt 1250, of, Wigmore, Herefordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1300  (Age 51 years)
     7. Margaret de Mortimer,   b. Abt 1250, of, Wigmore, Herefordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
    Last Modified 21 Jul 2019 
    Family ID F931  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Raised the family to new heights in his wars against Llywelyn and de Montfort. Indeed, he was made Regent of England on one occasion and gathered many more estates to his credit. But the most remarkable of all the lords of Wigmore was yet to comme. Roger's grandson, another Roger, inherited wide estates in England, Wales and Ireland, married well, became a succesful soldier in Scotland, Wales, Ireland and France and staged a revolt against the king. He was betrayed, forced to surrenderer, sentenced to death, reprieved, locked up in the Tower of London, sentencd to death again, reprieved again. He escaped from the Tower, fled to France and there seduced (or was seduced by) the Queen of England, Isabella, the She-Wolf of France. Together they travelled to Holland and bartered the hand in marriage of the future King Edward III for a small army. Then they returned to England, routed King Edward II and forced him to abdicate. Roger probably ordered the King's death and his own elevation to the Earldom of March. With the Queen he ruled England as a virtual monarch for four years before finally being arrested at Nottingham Castle by the 18 year-old Edward III, and hanged at Tyburn 'like a common criminal'. You can say many things about Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, but one thing he was not was a common criminal.
    • KINSHIP: Eldest son.
      BIRTH: A minor at his father's death in 1246.

      MILITARY: participated in the wars in Normandy.
      MILITARY: entrusted with the castle and lordship of Buellt.
      MILITARY: appointed captain of the King's army and fortications in parts of Shrewsbury 7 Jul 1277.

      TITLES: Earl of Wigmore. (Bradney, History of Monmouthshire, vol. 1 p. 150)

      RESIDENCE: Wigmore. (Tresswell, Visitation of Shropshire, vol. 29 p. 304)
      PROPERTY: Lord of Wigmore.
      PROPERTY: The castles of Wigmore, Cefn-y-Llys, and Cnwclas were in the king's possession on 2 Oct 1246. Roger fined 2,000 marks for his father's land on 26 Feb 1247.
      PROPERTY: Lordship of Radnor by right of his wife.
      PROPERTY: Lord of Melenydd or Radnor. (Bradney, History of Monmouthshire, vol. 1 p. 150)

      DEATH: Died on the eve of the Feast of Saints Simon and Jude in 1282.
      MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTION: Abbey of Wigmore. The following epitaph "Hic est sepultus qui mansit laude refultus, Rogerus Mundus, de Morte Marina secundus: Cui Fuerat gratus, Dominus Wigmoræ vocitatus. Hunc dum vicerat, vi Wallia Tota timebat, Et sibi donata permansit Wallia tota. Militiam scivit, semper tota subivit." (Lloyd, History of the Princes, the Lords Marcher and the Ancient Nobility of Powys Fadog, vol. 4 p. 6).

      (Research) KINSHIP: Conflict/Error> Evans' 'British Genealogist' book 8 page H91 gives him a daughter named Beatrice who married first, "Thos de Braos of Brecon", and second, "Thos de Brotherton Duke of Norfolk". This is an error for a later Beatrice, daughter of Roger and Joan, who married Edward of Brotherton and Thomas de Braiose.
    • KINSHIP: Eldest son.
      BIRTH: A minor at his father's death in 1246.

      MILITARY: participated in the wars in Normandy.
      MILITARY: entrusted with the castle and lordship of Buellt.
      MILITARY: appointed captain of the King's army and fortications in parts of Shrewsbury 7 Jul 1277.

      TITLES: Earl of Wigmore. (Bradney, History of Monmouthshire, vol. 1 p. 150)

      RESIDENCE: Wigmore. (Tresswell, Visitation of Shropshire, vol. 29 p. 304)
      PROPERTY: Lord of Wigmore.
      PROPERTY: The castles of Wigmore, Cefn-y-Llys, and Cnwclas were in the king's possession on 2 Oct 1246. Roger fined 2,000 marks for his father's land on 26 Feb 1247.
      PROPERTY: Lordship of Radnor by right of his wife.
      PROPERTY: Lord of Melenydd or Radnor. (Bradney, History of Monmouthshire, vol. 1 p. 150)

      DEATH: Died on the eve of the Feast of Saints Simon and Jude in 1282.
      MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTION: Abbey of Wigmore. The following epitaph "Hic est sepultus qui mansit laude refultus, Rogerus Mundus, de Morte Marina secundus: Cui Fuerat gratus, Dominus Wigmoræ vocitatus. Hunc dum vicerat, vi Wallia Tota timebat, Et sibi donata permansit Wallia tota. Militiam scivit, semper tota subivit." (Lloyd, History of the Princes, the Lords Marcher and the Ancient Nobility of Powys Fadog, vol. 4 p. 6).

      (Research) KINSHIP: Conflict/Error> Evans' 'British Genealogist' book 8 page H91 gives him a daughter named Beatrice who married first, "Thos de Braos of Brecon", and second, "Thos de Brotherton Duke of Norfolk". This is an error for a later Beatrice, daughter of Roger and Joan, who married Edward of Brotherton and Thomas de Braiose.

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