Roger de Mortimer , 1st Earl of March 
Roger de was born before May 3rd, 1287 in Netherwood, Thornbury, Herefordshire, England. Roger de's father was Edmund 1st Baron de Mortimer , 7th Lord Wigmore and his mother was Margaret de Fiennes. His paternal grandparents were Roger de Mortimer , 6th Lord of Wigmore and Maud de Braose; his maternal grandparents were William II de Fiennes , Lord of Wendover and Blanche de Brienne , Lady of Loupeland. He had a brother and two sisters, named John de, Maud de and Joan de. He was the second oldest of the four children. He had a half-sister named Isolde (Iseude) de. He died on November 29th, 1330 in Elms, Tyburn, Warwickshire, England (hanged by Edward III).General Notes
Sir Roger de Mortimer, b. 25 Apr or 3 May 1287, d. 29 Nov 1330, Earl of March. [Magna Charta Sureties]
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Roger Mortimer, 2nd Baron Mortimer, of Wigmore, summoned to parliament from 22 February, 1306, to 3 December, 1326 (from the accession of Edward II in 1307, with the addition of "De Wigmore"). This nobleman, so notorious in our histories as the paramour of Isabel, queen consort of the unfortunate Edward II, was in his sixteenth year at the time of his father's decease and was placed by the king (Edward I) in ward with Piers Gaveston, so that, to redeem himself and for permission to marry whom he please, he was obliged to pay Gaveston 2500 marks, and thereupon m. Joane, dau. of Peter de Genevill, son of Geffrey de Genevill, Lord of Trim, in Ireland. In the 34th Edward I [1306], he received the honour of knighthood and in the same year attended the king into Scotland, where we find him again in the 3rd Edward II [1310], and the same year he was constituted governor of the castle of Buelt, in Brecknockshire. In the 7th, 8th, and 10th years, he was likewise in Scotland and was then appointed lord-lieutenant of Ireland. During the remainder of the unhappy Edward's reign he attached himself to the interests of the queen and, at length, fled with her and Prince Edward into France. Returning, however, and his party triumphing, he was advanced to the dignity of Earl of March soon after the accession of King Edward III and he held a round table the same year at Bedford. But hereupon becoming proud beyond measure (so that his own son, Geffrey, called him the King of Folly), he kept a round table of knights in Wales in imitation of King Arthur. "Other particulars," says Dugdale, "of his haughtiness and insolence were these, viz., that with Queen Isabel, he caused a parliament to be held at Northampton, where an unworthy agreement was made with the Scots and Ragman's Roll of Homage of Scotland was traitorously delivered as also the black cross which King Edward I brought into England out of the abbey of Scone and then accounted a precious relique. That (with the queen) he caused the young king to ride twenty-four miles in one night, toward Bedford, to destroy the Earl of Lancaster and his adherents, saying that they imagined the king's death. That he followed Queen Isabel to Nottingham and lodged in one house with her. That he commanded the treasure of the realm and assumed the authority which, by common consent in parliament, was conferred upon Henry, Earl of Lancaster, at the king's coronation." His career was not, however, of long continuance for, the king becoming sensible of his folly and vices, had him suddenly seized in the castle of Nottingham and conveyed prisoner to London, where, being impeached before parliament, he was convicted under various charges, the first of which was privity to the murder of King Edward II in Berkeley Castle, and receiving sentence of death, was hanged in 1330 at the common gallows, celled Elmes, near Smithfield, where his body was permitted to hang two days and two nights naked before it was interred in the Grey Friars; whence in some years afterwards it was removed to Wigmore.
The Earl of March left issue four sons and seven daus., viz., Edmund (Sir); Roger (Sir), who m., 1321, Lady Joane Butler; Geffrey (Sir), Lord of Towyth; John, slain in a tournament at Shrewsbury; Katherine, m. to Thomas de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick; Joane, m. to James, Lord Audley; Agnes, m. to Laurence, Earl of Pembroke; Margaret, m. 1st, to Robert, 8th Earl of Oxford, and 2ndly, to Thomas (son and heir of Maurice), Lord Berkeley; Maud, m. to John de Cherlton, son and heir of John, Lord Powis; Blanch, m. to Peter de Grandison; Beatrix, m. 1st to Edward, son and heir of Thomas of Brotherton, Earl Marshal of England, and 2ndly, to Sir Thomas de Braose.
Upon the execution and attainder of the earl, all of his honours became forfeited. [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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- b.~ 1133 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England d.26 FEB 1180/81
- b.1158 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England d.<19 Aug 1214 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England
- b.~ 1131 in Skipton-in-Craven, Yorkshire, England d.1190
- b.1190 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England d.06 Aug 1246 in Wigmore Abbey, Herefordshire, England
- b.~ 1135 in Ferriers-Saint-Hilaire, France d. in Oakhum Hall, Rutland, England
- b.1172 in Oakham, Rutlandshire, England d.29 Apr 1252
- b.~ 1136 in Eggington, Derbyshire, England
- b.~ 1231 in Cwmaron Castle, Radnorshire, Wales d.<30 Oct 1282 in Kingsland, Herefordshire, England
- b.~ 1129 in Aberffraw Castle, Anglsy, Wales d.~ 1174
- b.1173 in Aberffraw Castle, Aberconway, Wales d.11 Apr 1240 in Aberconway, North Wales
- b.~ 1129 in Powys-Vadoc, Wales
- b.~ 1207 in Caemarvonshire, Wales d.1251 in Windsor, Berkshire, England
- b.24 Dec 1166 in Kings Manor House, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England d.19 Oct 1216 in Newark Castle, Nottinghamshire, England
- b.22 Jul 1190 in Newark Castle, Nottinghamshire, England d.>30 Mar 1236 in Court of Aberconway, North Wales
- b.1168 in Ferrers, Derbyshire, England
- b.1261 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England d.17 Jul 1304 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England
- b.1153 in Bramber, Sussex, England d.09 Aug 1211 in Corbeil, Marne, France
- b.1178 in Bramber, Sussex, England d.<09 Jun 1228 in Brecon, Breconshire, Wales
- b.1155 in Isleworth, Middlesex, England d.1210 in Corfe, Windsor, England
- b.~ 1197 in Brecknock, Breconshire, Wales d.02 May 1230 in Hanged by Llewelyn, Prince of Wales after intrigues w/ his wife
- b.~ 1145 in Little Bytham, Lincolnshire, England d.1226 in Little Somborne, Hampshire, England
- b.~ 1183 in Stoke, Devonshire, England d.< 1215
- b.~ 1160 in Gilsland, Irthington, Cumberland, England d.24 MAR 1216/17 in Stoke, Devonshire, England
- b.~ 1222 in Gower, Glamorganshire, Wales d.BEF 23 MAR 1300/01
- b.~ 1106 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.1165
- b.1146 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.14 May 1219 in Caversham Manor, England
- b.~ 1127 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England d.03 Jun
- b.1194 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.< 1246 in England
- b.~ 1130 in Tunbridge, Kent, England d.20 Apr 1176 in Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
- b.~ 1172 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.1220 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales
- b.~ 1141 in Ireland d.> 1186 in Waterford, Ireland
- b.<03 May 1287 in Netherwood, Thornbury, Herefordshire, England d.29 Nov 1330 in Elms, Tyburn, Warwickshire, England (hanged by Edward III)
- b.1147 in Martock, Somerset, England d.1189 in Jerusalem, Palestine
- b.1168 in Wendover Manor, Buckinghamshire, England d.1241 in Holy Lands
- b.1151 in Carshalton, Epsom, Surrey, England d.1223
- b.1210 in Tolleshunt, Essex, England d.1265 in Wendover Manor, Buckinghamshire, England
- b.~ 1138 in Dammartin, Seine-et-Marne, France d.19 Sep 1200 in London, Middlesex, England
- b.1177 in Dammartin, Seine-et-Marne, France
- b.1145 in Clermont, Beauvais, Oise, Picardy, France d.Oct 1200 in London, Middlesex, England
- b.1245 in Wendover Manor, Buckinghamshire, England d.11 Jul 1302
- b.~ 1160 in Conde, Hainault, Belgium d.1230
- b.~ 1195 in Conde, Hainault, Belgium d.1250
- b.~ 1165 in Moriammez, Hainault, Belgium d.> 1249
- b.~ 1220 in Conde, Hainault, Belgium
- b.~ 1164 in Roeux, Pas de Calais, Normandy, France d.1224
- b.~ 1200 in Roeux, Pas de Calais, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1180 in Mortagne, Pas de Calais, Normandy, France d.1221
- b.1262 in Wendover Manor, Buckinghamshire, England d.7 FEB 1333/34 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England
- b.~ 1130 in Brienne-le-Chateau, Aube, Champagne, France d.8 FEB 1190/91 in Seige of Acre, Palestine (3rd Crusade)
- b.~ 1148 in Brienne-le-Chateau, Champange, France d.21 MAR 1236/37 in As a Franciscan Friar in Constantinople, Turkey
- b.~ 1135 in Montbelliard, Doubs, Franche-Comte, France
- b.~ 1225 in Acre, Palestine d.1296
- b.15 Aug 1166 in Zamora, Leon, Spain d.24 Sep 1230 in Villaneuva de Sarria, Lugo, Spain
- b.1198 in Leon, Spain d.12 Apr 1237 in Constantinople, Turkey
- b.~Jun 1180 in Burgos, Castile, Spaine d.08 Nov 1244 in Burgos, Castile, Spaine
- b.1245 in Courtrain, Mynn, France d.1302
- b.~ 1170 in Leon, Spain d.1218 in Chateaudun, Eure-et-Loir, Beauce/Centre, France
- b.1200 in Carcassonne, Aude, Languedoc, France d.1249 in Chateaudun, Eure-et-Loir, Beauce/Centre, France
- b.~ 1175 in Freteval, Loir-et-Cher, Orleanais/Centre, France
- b.1227 in Chateaudun, France
- b.~ 1165 in Mayenne, Maine/Pays de la Loire, France d.15 Jul 1222
- b.~ 1202 in Mayenne, Pas de la Loire, France
- b.~ 1170 in Sable, Sarthe, Pas de la Loire, France
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