Earl Roger de Mortimer of March 
Roger was born on May 3rd, 1287 in Netherwood, Thornbury, Herefordshire, England. Roger's father was Baron Edmund de Mortimer and his mother was Margaret de Fiennes. His paternal grandparents were Lord Roger de Mortimer III of Wigmore and Maud de Braose; his maternal grandparents were William de Fiennes II and Blanche de Brienne. He had two sisters named Isolde and Matilda. He was the youngest of the three children. He died at the age of 43 on November 29th, 1330 in Elms, Tyburn, Warwickshire, England. He was buried in 1330 in Church Of Grey Friar, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England.General Notes
1st Earl of March
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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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.1108/1120 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England d.26 Feb 1181/1185
- b.~ 1155 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England d.24 Jun 1214 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England
- b.ABT 1126/1144 in Harringworth, Northumberland d.> 1190
- b.1190 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England d.06 Aug 1246 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England
- b.~ 1140 in Oakham, Rutlandshire, England d.31 Dec 1189 in Normandy, France
- b.ABT 1160/1172 in Oakham, Rutlandshire, England d.<31 May 1252
- b.1138/1140 in Eggington, Derbyshire, England d.1186
- b.1221 in Cwmaron Castle, Radnorshire, Wales d.27 Oct 1282 in Kingsland, Herefordshire, England
- b.1145 in Aberffraw Castle, Caernarvonshire, Wales d.ABT 1174/1184
- b.1173 in Dolwyddelan, Nantoconwy d.11 Apr 1240 in Aberconwy Abbey, Arllechwedd Isaf, Caernarvonshire, Wales
- b.~ 1129 in Montgomeryshire, Wales
- b.~ 1205 in Caernarvonshire, Wales d.1251 in Windsor, Berkshire, England
- b.24 Dec 1167 in Beaumont Palace, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England d.18 Oct 1216 in Newark Castle, Nottinghamshire, England
- b.~ 1188 in London, Middlesex, England d.Feb 1237 in Aberconwy, Arllechwedd Isaf, Caernarvonshire, Wales
- b.~ 1168 in Charltey, Staffordshire, England
- b.1252/1261 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England d.17 Jul 1304 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England
- b.~ 1153 in Bramber, Sussexshire, England d.09 Aug 1211 in Corbeil, Marne, France
- b.ABT 1178/1185 in Bramber, Sussexshire, England d.09 Jun 1228 in Brecon, Breconshire, Wales
- b.~ 1155 in Bramber, Sussexshire, England d.1210 in Corfe, Windsor, England
- b.1204 in Brecknock, Surrey, England d.20 May 1230 in Wales
- b.~ 1145 in Stoke, Devonshire, England d.1226 in Devonshire, England
- b.~ 1176 in Stoke, Devonshire, England d.1223
- b.~ 1149 in Stoke, Devonshire, England d.24 Mar 1217
- b.~ 1233 in Gower, Glamorganshire, Wales d.<20 Mar 1301
- b.~ 1126 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.1164/1165
- b.1144/1146 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.14 May 1219 in Caversham Manor, England
- b.~ 1129 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.03 Jun
- b.~ 1194 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.< 1246 in England
- b.1125/1130 in Tunbridge, Kent, England d.20 Apr 1176 in Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
- b.ABT 1172/1174 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.1220 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales
- b.~ 1141 in Ireland d.1177
- b.03 May 1287 in Netherwood, Thornbury, Herefordshire, England d.29 Nov 1330 in Elms, Tyburn, Warwickshire, England
- b.~ 1147 in Martock, Somersetshire, England d.1190 in Seige Of Acre, Holy Land, Jerusalem
- b.~ 1185 in Buckinghamshire, England d.1241 in Holy Land
- b.~ 1151 in Boulogne, Normandy, France d.> 1223
- b.ABT 1192/1210 in Tolleshunt, Essex, England d.1265/1269
- b.1135 in Dammartin, Seine-et-Marne, France d.19 Sep 1200 in London, Middlesex, England
- b.~ 1177
- b.1138 in Ponthieu, Ain, France d.>Oct 1200
- b.~ 1245 in Wendover, Buckinghamshire, England d.11 Jul 1302 in Courtral, Flandre, Occidential, Belgium
- b.~ 1160 d.1230
- b.~ 1184 in Conde, Hainault, Belgium
- b.~ 1165 d.1249
- b.~ 1210 in Buckshire, England
- b.~ 1164 in Roeux, Pas de Calais, Normandy, France d.1224
- b.ABT 1192/1200 in Roeux, Pas de Calais, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1180 in Mortagne, Pas de Calais, Normandy, France
- b.ABT 1262/1270 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England d.7 Feb 1333/1334
- b.ABT 1130/1142 in France d.08 Feb 1191 in Acre, Palestine
- b.~ 1195 in Acre, Palestine d.21 Mar 1237 in Constantinople, Turkey
- b.~ 1148
- b.~ 1217 in Acre, Palestine d.1296
- b.15 Aug 1171 in Zamora, Leon, Spain d.24 Sep 1230 in Villaneuva De Sarria, Lugo, Spain
- b.ABT 1198/1199 in Leon, Leon, Spain d.12 Apr 1237
- b.Jan 1178/1179 in Burgos, Castile, Läeon, Spain d.08 Nov 1246 in Las Huelgas
- b.ABT 1245/1252 in Courtrain, Mynn, France d.1302
- b.~ 1139 in Boves, Somme, France d.01 Nov 1191 in Siege Of Acre, Palestine
- b.~ 1182 in Boves, Somme, France d.1242
- b.ABT 1145/1146 in Dreux, Eure-Et-Loire, France d.> 1217
- b.ABT 1218/1219 in Boves, Somme, France
- b.~ 1160 in Montmirail, Marne, France d.1217 in Abbaye Longpont, Aisne, France
- b.~ 1184 in Oisy, Aisne, France d.~ 1267
- b.~ 1165 in Joinville, France
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Roger and Joan were married in a religious ceremony before October 6th, 1306 in Shropshire, England. They had a son and five daughters, named Edmund, Maud, Catherine, Joan, Blanche and Beatrice.
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Children
Edmund de Mortimer
Edmund was born about 1306 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England. He died on December 16th, 1351 in Stanton Lacy, Shropshire, England.
Maud de Mortimer
Maud was born about 1307 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England. She died after August 1345.
Catherine de Mortimer
Catherine was born in 1309 in Wigmore, Hereforedshire, England. She died at the age of 60 in August 1369.
Blanche de Mortimer
Blanche was born about 1316 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England. She died about 1347.
Beatrice de Mortimer
Beatrice was born about 1318 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England. She died on October 16th, 1383.
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