Hugh (II) de Mortimer

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 1180 or 1181 (or 26 February 1185).

Place of Death: Cleobury.

The 1180 or 1181 date and the place are given by Mason (ODNB). Ian Mortimer argues that Hugh survived until 1185.

Relationships

Father: Hugh (I) de Mortimer.

This relationship is given by Mason (ODNB), by Keats-Rohan (p. 601), and by the Complete Peerage (9:270). Ian Mortimer argues that Hugh (I) is the same person as Hugh (II).

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: Matilda, daughter of William le Meschin of Egremont.

This relationship is given by Mason (ODNB), by Keats-Rohan (p. 601), and by the Complete Peerage (9:272).

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Mortimer.)

Ralph de Mortimer.

Hugh de Mortimer (died before 1181) married Felicia de Saint-Sidon

William de Mortimer.

Roger (II) de Mortimer married Isabel de Ferrers.

References

Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59).

Keats-Rohan, Katharine S. B. Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1106 - 1166. (Woodbridge: 2002).

Mason, J.F.A. “Mortimer, Hugh (II) de (d. 1181?)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Mortimer, Ian. "The Medieval Mortimer Family: An outline lineage". Accessed 17 August 2019.

Phillips, Chris. “Some corrections and additions to the Complete Peerage.”