Ancestral Trails 2016 » Roger MORTIMER (1328-????)

Personal data Roger MORTIMER 

  • He was born on November 11, 1328 in Ludlow, Shropshire.
  • Title: 2nd Earl of March
  • (Ancestry) : House of Mortimer.
  • He died on February 26, 1359/60 in Rouvray, Côte-d'Or, Bourgogne, France, he was 30 years old.
  • A child of Edmund MORTIMER and ELIZABETH BADLESMERE

Household of Roger MORTIMER

He is married to Philippe MONTAGU.

They got married in the year 1349 at Ludlow, Shropshire, he was 20 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Thomas MORTIMER  1354-????
  2. Margery MORTIMER  1352-1405 
  3. EDMUND MORTIMER  -1381 
  4. Roger MORTIMER  1350-????


Notes about Roger MORTIMER

Sir Roger de Mortimer, 2nd Earl of March, 4th Baron Mortimer, KG (11 November 1328 - 26 February 1360) was an English nobleman and military commander during the Hundred Years' War.

He was the son of Sir Edmund Mortimer (d. 1331) and Elizabeth de Badlesmere, and grandson of Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March.

The Mortimer family lands and titles were lost after the first Earl of March's revolt and death by hanging in 1330, which was followed the next year by the death of Roger's father. Roger thus grew up with uncertain prospects, and re-acquired the family honours only gradually.

Around 1342, he received back Radnor, and the next year the old family baronial seat at Wigmore, Herefordshire.

Military career
As a young man he distinguished himself in the wars in France, fighting at Crécy and elsewhere in the campaign of 1347. Afterwards he was given livery of the rest of his lands, was one of the knights admitted at the foundation of the Order of the Garter, and was summoned to parliament as a baron both in 1348.

Earldom
In 1354, the sentence passed against Mortimer's treacherous grandfather, the first earl, was reversed, and the next year he was summoned to parliament as Earl of March. Also in 1355, he received a number of important appointments, including Constable of Dover Castle and Warden of the Cinque Ports, and he accompanied an expedition of Edward III to France.

Other honours
On 19 October 1356, his grandmother Joan de Geneville, 2nd Baroness Geneville, widow of the first earl, died, and Roger inherited her vast estates, including Ludlow Castle, which was thereafter the Mortimer family seat and power base.

In the following years, he became a member of the Royal Council and was appointed Constable at the castles of Montgomery, Bridgnorth in Shropshire, and Corfe in Dorset.

In 1359, and continuing into 1360, he was Constable of Edward III's invasion of France. He fought in the failed siege of Reims and captured Auxerre. The English forces then moved into Burgundy, where Roger died suddenly at Rouvray, near Avallon.

Marriage and children
Roger married Philippa de Montagu (1332-1381), daughter of William Montagu, 1st Earl of Salisbury, and Catherine Grandison and had by her at least four children:
Roger Mortimer, who died young;
Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March;
Margery Mortimer.
Janet Mortimer, who married Andrew Gray, father of Andrew Gray, 1st Lord Gray.

Mortimer also had at least one illegitimate child:
Sir Thomas Mortimer, who acted as deputy for his nephew Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March, in Ireland (1382-1383) and stood trial for the slaying of Richard II's commander, Sir Thomas Molineux after the Battle of Radcot Bridge (1387).
SOURCE: Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Mortimer,_2nd_Earl_of_March

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