Roger de Mortimer , Lord of Wigmore, Sir 
Roger de was born in 1158 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England. Roger de's father was Hugh de Mortimer , Lord of Wigmore and his mother was Maud le Meschin. His paternal grandparents were Hugh de Mortimer , Lord of Wigmore and Maud Longespic of Normandy; his maternal grandparents were William le Meschin , Lord of Copeland and Cecily de Rumilly , Heiress Skipton & Harewood. He had two brothers named Bartholomew de and Robert de. He was the oldest of the three children. He had a half-sister named Alice de. He died before August 19th, 1214 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England.General Notes
Roger de Mortimer, d. before 19 Aug 1214, Lord Mortimer of Wigmore, co. Hereford; m. Isabel, d. before 29 Apr 1252, granted a life interest in Lechlade, co. Gloucester & Oakham, co. Rutland which her brother Henry lost at time of conquest of Normandy, daughter of Walkelin de Ferrieres, seigneur of Ferriers-Saint-Hilaire, and lord of Oakham, Rutland. [Ancestral Roots]
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Roger de Mortimer, Lord of Wigmore, a feudal baron who, like his predecessors, was in constant strife with the Welsh. At one time he sustained a great defeat in conjunction with Hugh de Say, but in the end he was victorious and took twelve of their principal leaders in one battle. He also enlarged considerably his territories and drove thieves and robbers from those pars. Being at one time present at the solemn anniversary of his father, he confirmed all his grants to the canons of Wigmore, adding, of his own gift, a spacious and fruitful pasture lying adjacent to the abbey, called the Treasure of Mortimer, upon which occasion, his steward remonstrating with him for parting with so valuable a treasure, he replied, "I have laid up my treasure in that field, where thieves cannot steal or dig, or moth corrupt." This Roger m. Millicent, dau. of --- Ferrers, Earl of Derby, and had issue, Hugh, his successor, and two daus., the elder m. to Stephen le Gross, the younger to Walcheline de Beauchamp. He m. 2ndly, Isabel, sister and heir of Hugh de Ferrers, of Oakham, in Rutlandshire, and of Lechelade and Lagebury in Gloucestershire. All which lands he inherited upon the death of the said Hugh de Ferrers, and by that lady he had three sons, Ralph, Robert, and Philip. He d. in 1215, and was s. by his eldest son, Hugh 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.0998 in Varenne near Bellencombre, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France d.> 1074 in Varenne near Bellencombre, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1022 in Mortemer-sur-Eaulne, Normandy, France d.> 1078
- b.~ 1004 in Rouen, France d.> 1053
- b.1055 in Abby Nigmou, Herefordshire, England d.05 Aug 1104 in Normandy, France
- b.1010 in Vexin, Seine Inferieure, Normandy, France d.1074 in Valois now Oise, Picardy, 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.14 Oct 1027 in Falais, Calvados, France d.09 Sep 1087 in Hermenbraville, Seine-Maritime, France
- b.~ 1054 in Normandy, France d.02 Oct 1134 in Cardiff Castle, Glamorganshire, Wales
- b.1032 in Flanders, France d.03 Nov 1083 in Caen, Calvados, 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.~ 1050 in Montferrat, Italy d.~ 1120
- b.~ 1070 in Montferrat, Italy d.1133
- b.~ 1050 in Aglie, France
- b.~ 1101 in Montferrat, Italy
- b.1024 in Macon, Saone-et-Loire, Bourgogne, France d.11 Nov 1087
- b.~ 1060 in Bourgogne, France d.1133
- b.~ 1035 in Longwy, Duchy of Bar, Lorraine, France d.> 1088
- b.1158 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England d.<19 Aug 1214 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England
- b.~ 0987 in Bayeux, Normandy, France d.> 1031
- b.~ 1017 in Bayeux, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1050 in Bayeux, Normandy, France d.>Apr 1089 in Lord of Cumberland & Carlisle, England
- b.~ 0997 in Normandy, France d.3 FEB 1026/27 in Possibly poisoned after subduing revolt by brother Robert
- b.~ 1021 in Normandy, France
- b.1000 in France
- b.~ 1078 in Gernon Castle, Normandy, France d.1130 in of Egrement & Copeland, Cumberland, England
- b.~ 0979 in Normandy, France
- b.~ 1008 in Avranches, Normandy, France d.> 1084
- b.~ 0979 in Normandy, France
- b.~ 1054 in Avranches, Normandy, France
- b.1001 in Conteville, Eure, Normandy, France d.1066
- b.~ 1029 in Conteville, Eure, Normandy, France d. in France
- b.~ 1003 in Falaise, Calvados, France d.1050
- b.~ 1131 in Skipton-in-Craven, Yorkshire, England d.1190
- b.1036 in Remilly (near St Lo), Manche, Normandy, France
- 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
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‌Roger de and Isabel de were married in a religious ceremony about 1190 in of Rutlandshire, England. They had a son named Ralph de.
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Children
Ralph de Mortimer , 2nd Lord of Wigmore
Ralph de was born in 1190 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England. He died at the age of 56 on August 6th, 1246 in Wigmore Abbey, Herefordshire, England.
They had a daughter named Joan Isabel de.
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Children
Joan Isabel de Mortimer
Joan Isabel de was born about 1194 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England. She died in 1268 in Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England.
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