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Please refer to the record notes under references for other text not covered by the citations below:- [1]. "Blanch Mortimer: 'Remains' of medieval traitor's daughter found". BBC News. 29 January 2014. Retrieved 29 January 2014. [5]. Mortimer 2003, p. 14. [16]. Charles Hopkinson and Martin Speight, The Mortimers: Lords of the March (Logaston Press 2002), pp. 84–5. [17]. Richardson II 2011, p. 634. |
1. Roger de Mortimer, 3rd Baron Mortimer, 1st Earl of March (25 April 1287 – 29 November 1330), was an English nobleman and powerful Marcher lord who gained many estates in the Welsh Marches and Ireland following his advantageous marriage to the wealthy heiress Joan de Geneville, 2nd Baroness Geneville. In November 1316, he was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. 2. Mortimer, grandson of Roger Mortimer, 1st Baron Mortimer and Maud de Braose, Baroness Mortimer, was born at Wigmore Castle, Herefordshire, England, the firstborn of Marcher Lord Edmund Mortimer, 2nd Baron Mortimer, and Margaret de Fiennes. 3. Marriage: Like many noble children of his time, Roger was betrothed at a young age, to Joan de Geneville (born 1286), the daughter of Sir Piers de Geneville, of Trim Castle and Ludlow. They were married on 20 September 1301 when he was aged fourteen. Their first child was born in 1302.[5] 4. Children of Roger and Joan: The marriages of Mortimer's children (three sons and eight daughters) cemented Mortimer's strengths in the West.:- - Sir Edmund Mortimer knt (1302–1331), married Elizabeth de Badlesmere; they produced Roger Mortimer, 2nd Earl of March, who was restored to his grandfather's title. - Margaret Mortimer (1304 – 5 May 1337), married Thomas de Berkeley, 3rd Baron Berkeley - Maud Mortimer (1307 – aft. 1345), married John de Charlton, Lord of Powys[16] - Geoffrey Mortimer (1309–1372/6) - John Mortimer (1310–1328) - Joan Mortimer (c. 1312–1337/51), married James Audley, 2nd Baron Audley - Isabella Mortimer (c. 1313 – aft. 1327) - Katherine Mortimer (c. 1314–1369), married Thomas de Beauchamp, 11th Earl of Warwick - Agnes Mortimer (c. 1317–1368), married Laurence Hastings, 1st Earl of Pembroke - Beatrice Mortimer (d. 16 October 1383), who married firstly, Edward of Norfolk (d. before 9 August 1334), son and heir apparent of Thomas of Brotherton, by whom she had no issue, and secondly, before 13 September 1337, Thomas de Brewes (d. 9 or 16 June 1361), by whom she had three sons and three daughters.[17] - Blanche Mortimer[1] (c. 1321–1347), married Peter de Grandison, 2nd Baron Grandison 5. Royal descendants:- Through his son Sir Edmund Mortimer, he is an ancestor of the last Plantagenet monarchs of England from King Edward IV to Richard III. By Edward IV's daughter, Elizabeth of York, the Earl of March is an ancestor to King Henry VIII and to all subsequent monarchs of England. 6. References:- - C. G. Crump, "The Arrest of Roger Mortimer and Queen Isabel" (EHR, XXVI, 1911), 331–2 - R. R. Davies, 'Mortimer, Roger (V), first earl of March (1287–1330)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004; online edn, January 2008 [2], accessed 19 December 2009. - D. A. Harding, The Regime of Isabella and Mortimer, 1326–1330, M Phil Thesis (University of Durham, 1985). - Patent Rolls. Westminster: Parliament of England. 1232–1509. - Calendar of the Gormanston Register (ed. Mills/McEnery), Dublin, 1916. - Mortimer, Ian (2003). The Greatest Traitor: The Life of Sir Roger Mortimer, Ruler of England 1327–1330. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-34941-6. - Ian Mortimer, 'The Death of Edward II in Berkeley Castle', English Historical Review, cxx, 489 (2005), 1175–1214. - Derek Pratt, "The Marcher Lordship of Chirk, 1329–1330", (Transactions of the Denbighshire Historical Society, XXXIX, 1990). - Parliamentary Writs Alphabetical Digest. II. London: Public Record Office. 1834. - Richardson, Douglas (2011). Everingham, Kimball G., ed. Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. II (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City. ISBN 1449966349. - J. H. Round, "The Landing of Queen Isabella" (EHR, XIV, 1899) - G. W. Watson, Geoffrey de Mortimer and his Descendants, (Genealogist, New series, XXII, 1906). - A. Weir, Isabella she-wolf of France, Queen of England, (Jonathan Cape, London, 2005). - Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 By Frederick Lewis Weis; Lines: 10–31, 29–32, 29–33, 39–31, 47B-33, 71–33, 71A-32, 120–33, 176B-32, 263–31 - Preston Genealogy, by Sir Thomas Wentworth, May 1636 (MS 10,208, National Library, Dublin) External links:- - Wigmore Castle - BBC "House Detectives at Large" Press Release |