Lord Ralph de Mortimer of Wigmore 
Ralph was born about 1055 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England. Ralph's father was Seigneur Roger de Mortimer and his mother is Hawyse de Vexin. His paternal grandfather is Bishop Hugh de Mortimer of Constances and his paternal grandmother was Duchess Gundrada de Crepon of Normandy; his maternal grandparents were Count Raoul ("the Great") III of Valois, Vexin, Amiens and Adele de Bar-sur-Aube. He was an only child. He died after 1104.General Notes
Ralph de Mortimer, accompanying the Duke of Normandy in his expedition against England, was one of his principal commanders at the decisive battle of Hastings; and shortly after, as the most puissant of the victor's captains, was sent into the marches of Wales to encounter Edric, Earl of Shrewsbury, who still resisted the Norman yoke. This nobleman, after much difficulty, and a long siege in his castle of Wigmore, Mortimer subdued, and delivered into the king's hands. When, as a reward for his good service, he obtained a grant of all Edric's estates, and seated himself thenceforward at Wigmore. Independently of these great Welsh territorial possessions, Ralph Mortimer enjoyed by the bounty of his royal master sundry lordships and manors in other parts of the realm, which he held at the time of the General Survey. In the beginning of Rufus's reign, Mortimer took part with Curthose, but he subsequently changed sides, and being constituted general of the forces sent to oppose that prince in Normandy, by King Henry I., he totally routed the enemy, and brought Curthose prisoner to the king. He married Millicent ________, by whom he had issue:
1st Baron of Wigmore
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 0930
- b.~ 1020 in Normandy, France d.1086
- b.0853/0873 in Sjaelland Island, Denmark d.0888/0959 in Jellinge, Vejle, Denmark
- b.0845/0888 in Denmark d.0931 in Denmark
- b.~ 0870 in England
- b.~ 0906 in Normandy, France
- b.0800 d.0844 in Walcheren
- b.0852/0891 in Denmark d.~ 0935
- b.0936 in Normandy, France d.1031 in France
- b.~ 1055 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England d.> 1104
- b.0925/0944 in Vexin, Normandy, France d.ABT 0995/0998
- b.0944/0962 in Vexin, Normandy, France d.1027
- b.0924 in Vexin, Normandy, France
- d.1040
- b.~ 0919 in France
- b.0950 in Ile de France, France
- b.ABT 1010/1025 in Vexin, Seine Inferieure, Normandy, France d.08 Sep 1074
- b.0907 in Montdidier, Picardie, France d.0981/0992 in Jerusalem, Holy Land
- b.~ 0970 in Breteuil, Eure, France d.18 May 1060
- b.~ 0925 in Montreuil-Bellay, Anjou, Maine, France
- b.0980 in Breteuil, Eure, France
- b.0948 in Chartres, Eure-et-Loire, France
- b.0965/0974 in Chartres, France
- b.~ 1035
- b.~ 0922 d.1003
- b.~ 0952 d.> 1019
- b.ABT 0950/0954 in Champagne, France d.31 Mar 1047
- b.~ 0982 d.< 1040
- b.~ 0948 in Vermandois, France d.>13 Jun 0989
- b.~ 0980
- b.ABT 0950/0954 in Champagne, France d.31 Mar 1047
- b.ABT 1012/1015 in in Bar-Sur-Seine, Aube, Champagne, France d.1053
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Children
Countess Hawise de Mortimer d'Aumale
Hawise was born in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England. She died in 1189.
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