General Notes

Sir Roger Mortimer, KG, b. Ludlow, 11 Nov 1328, d. 26 Feb 1359/60, 2nd Earl of March; m. Philippa de Montagu, d. 5 Jan 1381/2, daughter of William de Montagu, Earl of Salisbury, and Katharine Grandison.  [Magna Charta Sureties]

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Roger Mortimer, b. 1328, summoned to parliament as Baron Mortimer, and Baron Mortimer, of Wigmore, from 20 November, 1348, to 15 March, 1354. This nobleman, at the time of his father's decease, was only three years of age and during his minority, his castles in the marches of Wales were committed to the custody of William, Earl of Northampton, who had m. his mother. In the 20th Edward III [1347], he accompanied the king into France and then received the honour of knighthood. In the 26th, he was in a similar expedition and, in two years afterwards, obtaining a reversal of the attainder of his grandfather, he was restored to the Earldom of March and to his forfeited lands. His lordship the next year was constable of Dover Castle and warden of the Cinque Ports, and for some years afterwards he was in the wars of France. He m. Philippa, dau. of William de Montacute, 1st Earl of Salisbury, and had issue, Roger, who d. v. p.; Edmund, his successors; Margery, m. to John, Lord Audley. His lordship d. at Romera, in Burgundy, in 1359, being then commander of the English forces there, and a knight of the Garter. He was s. by his son, Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage Ltd, London, England, 1883, p. 384, Mortimer, Barons Mortimer, of Wigmore, Earls of March]

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Roger Mortimer, 2nd Earl of March, (b. Nov. 11, 1328, Ludlow, Shropshire, Eng.--d. Feb. 26, 1360, Rouvray, near Avallon, Burgundy [now in France]), a leading supporter of Edward III of England. The eclipse of the Mortimer family's power following the death of the 1st Earl of March proved no more than temporary. Edward III's friendship with March's grandson Roger, 2nd Earl of March, enabled the latter in 1354 to recover his ancient patrimony. Royal support also lay behind a series of arbitrary decisions, thinly veiled as legal judgments, which restored to the young earl in addition many of the lands acquired by the 1st earl during his years of power, notably the lordship of Denbigh: the claims of the Earl of Salisbury were ignored, and the Earl of Arundel was pacified with the lordship of Chirk. By then, Roger had already served with the king at the Battle of CrÈcy (1346) and became one of the founder knights of the Garter. Later he accompanied Edward to Picardy in 1355 and, as constable, rode in the van of the great host that went to France in 1359. [Encyclopaedia Britannica CD, 1996, MARCH, ROGER MORTIMER, 2ND EARL OF]