Ralph de Mortimer , 2nd Lord of Wigmore 
Ralph de was born in 1190 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England. Ralph de's father was Roger de Mortimer , Lord of Wigmore, Sir and his mother was Isabel de Ferrers. His paternal grandparents were Hugh de Mortimer , Lord of Wigmore and Maud le Meschin; his maternal grandparents were Walcheline Seigneur de Ferrers , Lord of Oakhum and Goda de Toeni. He had a half-sister named Joan Isabel de. He died at the age of 56 on August 6th, 1246 in Wigmore Abbey, Herefordshire, England.General Notes
Ralph de Mortimer, in the 12th Henry III [1228], paying £100 for his relief, had livery of all his lands lying in the cos. of Gloucester, Southampton, Berks, Salop, and Hereford. This nobleman being of a marital disposition, erected several strong castles by which he was enabled to extend his possessions against the Welsh so that Prince Llewellyn, seeing that he could not successfully cope with him, gave him his dau., Gladuse Duy, widow of Reginald de Braose, in marriage, and by this lady he had issue, Roger, his successor; Peter John, a grey friar at Shrewsbury; Hugh, of Chelmersh; and a dau. Isolda, m. 1st to Walter Balem, and 2ndly, to Hugh, Lord Audley. He d. in 1246, and was s. by his eldest son, Roger de Mortimer. [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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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.1055 in Abby Nigmou, Herefordshire, England d.05 Aug 1104 in Normandy, France
- 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.~ 1101 in Normandy, France d.27 Jul 1128 in Siege of Alost, Flanders now Belgium
- b.~ 1118 in Normandy, France
- b.~ 1101 in Montferrat, Italy
- b.1158 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England d.<19 Aug 1214 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England
- b.~ 1050 in Bayeux, Normandy, France d.>Apr 1089 in Lord of Cumberland & Carlisle, England
- b.~ 1078 in Gernon Castle, Normandy, France d.1130 in of Egrement & Copeland, Cumberland, England
- b.~ 1054 in Avranches, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1131 in Skipton-in-Craven, Yorkshire, England d.1190
- b.~ 1056 in Remilly (near St Lo), Manche, Normandy, France d.~ 1096 in Skipton-in-Craven, Yorkshire, England
- b.~ 1095 in Skipton-in-Craven, Yorkshire, England d.< 1155
- b.~ 1060 in Normandy, France
- b.1190 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England d.06 Aug 1246 in Wigmore Abbey, Herefordshire, England
- b.~ 1065 in Ferrieres-St-Hilaire, Eure, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1100 in Oakhum, Rutland, England d.> 1136
- b.~ 1135 in Ferriers-Saint-Hilaire, France d. in Oakhum Hall, Rutland, England
- b.1172 in Oakham, Rutlandshire, England d.29 Apr 1252
- b.~ 1081 in Flamstead, Hertfordshire, England d.~ 1126 in Conches, Sein-et-Marne, France
- b.~ 1104 in Flamstead, Hertfordshire, England d.BEF FEB 1161/62
- b.~ 1077 in Huntington, Huntingdonshire, England d.> 1126
- b.~ 1136 in Eggington, Derbyshire, England
- b.1087 in Hainault, Belgium d.1120
- b.~ 1109 in Hainault, Belgium d.> 1162 in Garsington, Headington, Oxfordshire, England
- b.1089 in Wassenberg, Rheinland, Prussia
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Ralph de and Gwladys "Ddu" verch were married in a religious ceremony in 1230 in 2nd husband. They had a son and two daughters, named Roger de, Maud de and Joan de.
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Children
Roger de Mortimer , 6th Lord of Wigmore
Roger de was born about 1231 in Cwmaron Castle, Radnorshire, Wales. He died before October 30th, 1282 in Kingsland, Herefordshire, England.
Joan de Mortimer
Joan de was born about 1240 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England. She died before 1295.
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