Sir Roger de Mortimer

1221 - 1282  (61 years)

• Name	Sir Roger de Mortimer  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Born	1221	Cameron Castle, Radnor, Wales
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	Lord Mortimer of Wigmore
  Occupation	1247
  	Paid a fine of 1000 marks so he could have his lands before he was of full age
  Occupation	1253
  	Knighted by King Henry III at Winchester
  Occupation	1253-1254
  	Served in Gascony
  Occupation	1255
  	Opposed the rising power of his cousin, Llewellyn ap Gruffydd
  Occupation	1258
  	First took the side of the Barons in their dispute with Henry III
  Occupation	17 Jul 1260
  	Llewellyn seized Builth Castle of which he had custody for Prince Edward (while Mortimer was in London to attend council)
  Occupation	1261
  	Received a royal pardon and thenceforth supported the King against the Barons
  Occupation	1263
  	Took the side of the King against the barons
  Occupation	6 Apr 1264
  	Was with the King at the taking of Northampton
  Occupation	14 May 1264
  	Fought on the side of King Henry III at the Battle of Lewes in Sussex (King Henry and Prince Edward were captured by Simon de Montfort)
  Occupation	1265
  	Conceived the plan and furnished a horse that allowed Edward I to escape from Hereford Castle
  Occupation	1265
  	Fought off Edward's pursuers with Roger de Clifford as the prince approached Wigmore Castle
  Occupation	4 Aug 1265
  	Killed Simon VI de Montfort at Battle of Evesham (slain by a lance through the neck)
  Occupation	15 May 1266
  	Defeated by the Welsh at Brecon
  Occupation	1270-1274
  	Trustee of Prince Edward's estates while he was on Crusade, and after the death of Henry III, regent until Edward returned to England
  Died	27 Oct 1282	Kingsland, Herefordshire, England
  Buried	Bef 30 Oct 1282
  Person ID	I4412	Godbout
  Last Modified	18 Apr 2017

  
  

  Father	Ralph de Mortimer,   b. Abt 1190, Wigmore (Ludlow), Herefordshire, England ,   d. 6 Aug 1246, Wigmore (Ludlow), Herefordshire, England  (Age ~ 56 years)
  Mother	Gwladus Dhu ferch Llewellyn,   b. Abt 1205, Caernarvonshire, Wales ,   d. 1251, Windsor, Berkshire, England  (Age ~ 46 years)
  Married	1230	England
  Family ID	F2230	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Maud de Briouze,   b. Abt 1228, Gower, Glamorganshire, Wales ,   d. 1301, England  (Age ~ 73 years)
  Married	1247	England
  Children	1. Isabella de Mortimer,   b. Abt 1248, Wigmore (Ludlow), Herefordshire, England ,   d. Aft 1300, England  (Age ~ 53 years)   2. Edmund de Mortimer,   b. 1251, Wigmore (Ludlow), Herefordshire, England ,   d. 17 Jul 1304, Wigmore (Ludlow), Herefordshire, England  (Age 53 years)
  Last Modified	18 Apr 2017
  Family ID	F2232	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S7] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, George Edward Cokayne; Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand & Howard de Walden, editors, (Reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), Volume IX, pp. 276-281. [S728] A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Ireland and Scotland, John Burke, Esq., (Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, London, 1831), 372 & 590. [S721] The Visitation of Yorkshire in the years 1563 and 1564, William Flower, Esq., Norroy King of Arms, edited by Charles Best Norcliffe, M.A., of Langton, (The Harleian Society, Mitchell and Hughes, Printers, 140 Wardour Street, W., London, 1881), 337. [S633] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, Frederick Lewis Weis. Edited with additions and corrections by Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr.; assisted by David Faris, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 7th Edition, Baltimore, Maryland, 1992), 29:27-29 & 69:67-29.