Roger De Mortimer Lord of Wigmore 
Roger De was born in 1158 in <Of,Derby,Derbyshire,England>.1 Roger De's father was Hugh II de Mortimer Lord of Wigmore and his mother was Matilda (Maud) de Meschines. His paternal grandparents were Hugh I de , Lord of Wigmore Mortimer and Maud Longespic of Normandy; his maternal grandparents were William de Meschines Lord of Skripton-in-Craven and Cecily de Rumilly. 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. He died in Y.2 General Notes
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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 France
- b.~ 1022 in Mortemer-sur-Eaulne,Normandy,France d.> 1078
- b.1020 in France d.1059 in Austria-Hungary
- b.1055 in Abby Nigmou,Herefordshire,England d.05 Aug 1104 in Normandy,France
- b.~ 1010 in Vexin,France d.1064 in Peronne,Somme,France
- b.~ 1035 in Valois,Isle de France,France d.> 1086
- b. in Bar d.1043
- b.~ 1090 in Wigmore,Herefordshire,England d.BET. 1148 - 1150
- b.~ 1100 in of,,Derbyshire,England d.< 1160 in ,Merevale,Warwickshire,England
- b.~ 1136 in of,Oakham,Rutlandshire,England d.>31 Dec 1189 in of,,Normandy,France
- b.~ 1114 in of,Nottingham,Nottinghamshire,England
- b.~ 1073 in of,Derby,Derbyshire,England d. in Y
- b.~ 1100 in Bramber,Sussex,England d.~ 1192 in England
- b.~ 1151 in Bramber,Sussex,England d.Aft 5 FEB 1227/1228 in ,,,England
- b.1130 in of Gloucester,England
- b.~ 1125 in Wigmore,Herefordshire,England d.26 FEB 1180/1181
- b.14 Oct 1024 in Falaise,Calvados,Calvados,France d.10 Sep 1087 in Hermentruvilleby,Rouen,Seine-Maritime,France
- b.~ 1054 in Normandy,France d.02 Oct 1134 in Cardiff Castle,Glamorganshire,Wales
- b.~ 1031 in Of,,Flanders,France d.02 Nov 1083 in ,Caen,Calvados,France
- b.~ 1087 in Normandy,France d.27 Jul 1128 in Killed in Battle--St. Omer,France
- b.1039 in Conversano,Bari,Apulia,Italy
- b.~ 1069 in Conversano,Bari,Apulia,Italy d.FEB 1102/1103
- b.~ 1108 in Normandy,France
- d.1130
- b.1135
- b.~ 1090 in Montferrat,Italy d.Deceased
- b.Abt 1017/1024 in ,,Bourgone,France d.12 Nov 1087 in ,,,France
- b.1070 in Bourgogne,France d.1133
- b.~ 1045 in Of France d.> 1092
- b.1158 in <Of,Derby,Derbyshire,England> d.Bef 19 Ago 1241 in Y
- b.~ 1017 in Bayeux,Normandy,France
- b.~ 1050 in Normandy,France d.Apr 1089
- b.~ 1021 in Normandy,France
- b.~ 1070 in Of Briquessart,Livry,,France d.Jan 1128 1129 in ,Chester,Cheshire,England
- b.~ 1025 in Avrenches,Normandy,France d.1066
- b.~ 1054 in Of,Avranches,Normandy,France d.1084
- b.~ 1023 in ,Conteville,,France
- b.~ 1100 in Gernon Castle,Normandy,France d.1130 in Egremont,Cumbria (Cumberland),Eng.
- b.~ 1000 in Landon,France d.01 Apr 1046 in Anjou,France
- b.1036 in Anjou or Normandy,France d.1094
- b.1018 in Anjou,France d.10 May 1076 in Anjou,France
- b.~ 1070 in Spalding,Lincolnshire,England d.~ 1136
- b.~ 0994 in of,Mercia,,England d.1059 in of,Mercia,,England
- b.~ 1040 in Mercia,,England d.BET. 1057 - 1143 in ,,England
- b.0990 in of Wessex,England d.1055 in Y
- b.~ 1114 in Copeland,Cumberland,England d.< 1190
- b.~ 1040
- b.~ 1060 in Normandy,France d.~ 1100 in Skipton,Yorkshire,Eng.
- b.~ 1100 in Normandy,France d.~ 1153
- b.~ 1060
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Children
Ralph de Mortimer 5th Baron of Wigmore
Ralph was born about 1190 in Wigmore,Herefordshire,England.3 He died on August 6th, 1246 in Wigmore,Herefordshire,England. He was buried in Wigmore,Herefordshire,England.3
1 "Ancestors of John Whitcomb" from GEDCOMs downloaded from AOL on 06/21/97, p. 4
2 Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999 @ 132c-28
3 A Grandchild's Heritage - The Deheubarth Line
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Further source/citation:
Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999 @ 262-29
2 Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999 @ 132c-28
3 A Grandchild's Heritage - The Deheubarth Line
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Further source/citation:
Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999 @ 262-29
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