Roger (III) de Mortimer

Lord of Wigmore

Events

Date of Birth: 1231.

Place of Birth: (said to have been) the castle of Cymaron.

The date and place are given by Crump (ODNB).

Date of Death:26 October 1282.

Place of Death: Kingsland, Herefordshire.

The date and place are given by Crump (ODNB).

Place of Burial: Wigmore.

The place is given by Crump (ODNB).

Relationships

Father: Ralph (II) Mortimer (died 1246).

This relationship is given by Crump (ODNB), by Lieberman (p.91), and the Complete Peerage (9:276).

Mother: Gwladus Ddu (died 1251) ferch Llywelyn ab Iorwerth.

This relationship is given by Crump (ODNB), by Lieberman (p.91), and the Complete Peerage (9:276).

Spouse: Maud de Briouze (died 1300/01).

This relationship is given by Crump (ODNB), by Lieberman (p.91), and the Complete Peerage (9:276).

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Ralph (III) de Mortimer (deid 1274).

Edmund (I) de Mortimer (died 17 July 1304) married Margaret Fiennes.

Isabel married (1) John (III) FitzAlan; married (2) Ralph d’Arderne; married (3) Robert de Hastang.

Roger (IV) Mortimer of Chirk (died 3 August 1326) married Lucy de Wafre.

William de Mortimer married Hawise de Muscegros.

Geoffrey de Mortimer.

Margaret married Robert de Vere, sixth earl of Oxford.

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).

Crump, J.J. “Mortimer, Roger (III) de, lord of Wigmore (1231-1282)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Lieberman, Max. The Medieval March of Wales (Cambridge University Press, 2010).

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