Hugh de Mortimer , Lord of Wigmore 
Hugh de was born about 1133 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England. Hugh de's father was Hugh de Mortimer , Lord of Wigmore and his mother was Maud Longespic of Normandy. His paternal grandparents were Ralph de Mortimer and Milicent Ferrers; his maternal grandparents were William Clito of William Clito Count , Count of Flanders/, Claimed Normandy/Normandy and Jeanne de Montferrat. He had a sister named Maud de. He was the older of the two children.General Notes
Hugh de Mortimer, being a person of a proud and turbulent spirit, opposed strenuously the accession of King Henry II upon the demise of Stephen, and induced Roger, Earl of Hereford, to fortify his castles of Gloucester and Hereford against the new monarch, himself doing the same with his castles of Cleobury, Wigmore, and Brugges (commonly called Bridgenorth). Whereupon Gilbert Foliot, at that time Bishop of Hereford, addressing himself to the Earl of Hereford, his kinsman, by fair persuasions soon brought him to peaceable submission. But Mortimer continuing obstinate, the king was forced to raise an army and, at the point of the sword, to being him to obedience. Between this rude baron and Joceas de Dynant, at that time Lord of Ludlow, existed a feud, carried to so fierce a pitch that Dynant could not pass safely out of his castle for fear of being taken by Mortimer's men, but it so happened that Mortimer, setting his spies to take all advantages of Dynant, was surprised himself and carried prisoner to Ludlow where he was detained until he paid a ransom of 3,000 marks of silver. He was oftentimes engaged against the Welsh and he erected some strong castles in Wales. He likewise finished the foundation of the abbey of Wigmore, begun by his father, and in his old age became a canon of that house. He m. and had issue, Roger, his successor; Hugh, who m. Felicia de Sancto Sydonio, and had, by her, by gift of his father, the manors of Sudbury and Chelmers; Ralph; and William. He d. in 1188 and was s. by his eldest son, Roger de Mortimer, Lord of Wigmore. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage Ltd, London, England, 1883, p. 383, Mortimer, Barons Mortimer, of Wigmore, Earls of March]
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- b.~ 0960 in France
- b.~ 1022 in Mortemer-sur-Eaulne, Normandy, France d.> 1078
- b.~ 0970 in Rouen, France
- b.~ 1004 in Rouen, France d.> 1053
- b.~ 0987 in Longueville, Normandy, France
- b.1055 in Abby Nigmou, Herefordshire, England d.05 Aug 1104 in Normandy, France
- b.~ 0985 in Vexin, Seine Inferieure, Normandy, France d.1030
- b.1010 in Vexin, Seine Inferieure, Normandy, France d.1074 in Valois now Oise, Picardy, France
- b.0992 in Breteuil, Eure, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1035 in Vexin, Seine Inferieure, Normandy, France d.> 1086
- b.1015 in Vexin, Seine Inferieure, Normandy, France d.1043
- b.~ 1090 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England d.BET 1148 AND 1150
- b.~ 1070 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England
- b.~ 1133 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England d.26 FEB 1180/81
- b.~ 0999 in Rouen, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France d.02 Jul 1035 in Nicaea, Bithynia, Turkey (on pilgrimage to Jerusalem)
- b.14 Oct 1027 in Falais, Calvados, France d.09 Sep 1087 in Hermenbraville, Seine-Maritime, France
- b.~ 1003 in Falaise, Calvados, France d.1050
- b.~ 1054 in Normandy, France d.02 Oct 1134 in Cardiff Castle, Glamorganshire, Wales
- b.1012 in Flanders, France d.01 Sep 1067 in Lille, Nord, France
- b.1032 in Flanders, France d.03 Nov 1083 in Caen, Calvados, France
- b.1009 in France d.8 JAN 1078/79 in Monastere de L'O, Messines, France
- b.~ 1101 in Normandy, France d.27 Jul 1128 in Siege of Alost, Flanders now Belgium
- b.1039 in Conversano, Bari, Apulia, Italy
- b.~ 1069 in Conversano, Bari, Apulia, Italy d.FEB 1102/03
- b.~ 1118 in Normandy, France
- b.~ 1020 in Montferrat, Italy
- b.~ 1050 in Montferrat, Italy d.~ 1120
- b.~ 1070 in Montferrat, Italy d.1133
- b.~ 1020 in Aglie, France
- b.~ 1050 in Aglie, France
- b.~ 1101 in Montferrat, Italy
- b.~ 0990 in Bourgogne, France d.04 Sep 1057 in France
- b.1024 in Macon, Saone-et-Loire, Bourgogne, France d.11 Nov 1087
- b.1003 in Normandy, France d.27 Jul 1037 in France
- b.~ 1060 in Bourgogne, France d.1133
- b.~ 1012 in Longwy, Lorraine, France d.1048
- b.~ 1035 in Longwy, Duchy of Bar, Lorraine, France d.> 1088
- b.~ 1015 in Carcassonne, Aude, Languedoc, France
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