General Notes

REFN: 8704AN
Lord of Wigmore
Son and heir
1st wife Millicent De Ferrieres
2nd wife Isabel De Ferrieres
Cokayne mentions in his footnotes that his half-brothers Ranulph De Belme
is and Philip De Belmeis granted him rents in Bisley. This proves their ex
istance.
Cokayne does not mention his marriage to Millicent De Ferrieres, althou
gh Burke in his Dormant and Extinct is very specific and discusses the so
ns as half-brothers. Generally Burke would be from Dugdale.
Cokayne's Complete Peerage in Dave's Database.
Dave's Database. Utzinger, Dave, Rootsweb's WorldConnect, World Wide We
b: Available: [Online]: (http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?
db=utzing) [30 August 2002].
ROGER DE MORTIMER, eldest surviving son and heir. In his father's lifeti
me he appears on the Pipe Roll as holding terrae datae in Worcestershire a
nd Salop. He was a benefactor of Gloucester Abbey, of Kington, St. Michae
l, Wilts, of Cwmhir, of Jumièges, and of Saint-Victor-en-Caux. Between 11
82 and 1189 he attested at Rouen a charter of Henry II to the monks of Bar
bey (diocese of Bayeux). In 1191, upon a charge of conspiring with the Wel
sh against the King, he was forced to surrender his castles and to abju
re the country for three years. In April 1194 he was in England again, a
nd witnessed a charter of Richard I, after his second Coronation at Winche
ster. Roger was a strenuous Lord Marcher, and in 1195 drove the sons of Ca
dwallon out of Maelienydd, and restored Cwmaron Castle; but next year Rhy
s, Prince of South Wales, defeated a well-equipped force of cavalry and fo
ot under Mortimer and Hugh de Say, of Richard's Castle, with much slaughte
r, near Radnor. He was one of the magnates who refused to serve personal
ly in France in 1201, but his fine was remitted. On 1 April 1207 he witnes
sed a charter of the King at Montfort-sur-Risle, and he appears to have be
en with John at Bonport in July following.(b) On the loss of Normandy in 1
204. Roger adhered to John and forfeited his Norman lands. In 1205 he land
ed at Dieppe, and being captured by John de Rouvray, bailiff of Caux, w
as compelled to pay a ransom of 1,000 marks. He was in England again by Ju
ne 1207, when he was directed to hand Knighton Castle to the custo
dy of a successor; in that year his wife Isabel had a grant of Oakham f
or life. In 1210 some of his knights served in the King's invasion of Irel
and. In 1212 he proffered 3,000 marks for the marriage of the heir of Walt
er de Beauchamp, to whom he married his daughter Joan. In May 1213 he w
as one of the sponsors for John's good faith in his reconciliation with Ar
chbishop Langton at the command of the Pope. He married Isabel, daught
er of Walkelin DE FERRIÈRES, seigneur of Ferrières-Saint-Hilaire and lo
rd of Oakham. He died before 19 August 1214, having, with the King's permi
ssion, resigned his lands to his son Hugh when he was taken ill, and was b
uried at Wigmore. His widow Isabel married, 2ndly, Piers FITZHERBERT, of B
laen Llyfni, who died 1 June 1235. She retained her father's English lan
ds till her death. She died before 29 April 1252, and was buried in the ch
apel which she had built in the court of the Hospital of St. John of Lechl
ade. [CP 9:272-3], , ,
?  Text: -pp. 98-99 & fn 7
?  Text: 9:271 e 1&2