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Données personnelles Roger I 'le jeune' de Mortimer 8ème Baron de Wigmore, 1er Comte des Marches 

• Il est né le 25 avril 1287 dans Netherwood, Thornberry, Herefordshire, England, Great Britain.

  Attention: Avait moins de 16 ans (1) lors de la naissance (??-??-1288) de l'enfant (Joan de Mortimer).

• Baptisé (à 8 ans ou plus tard) par l'autorité de la prêtrise de l'église SDJ le 1 juin 1925.
• Professions:
• Baron.
• Comte.
• (Property) : Marches.
• (Property) : Wigmore,.
• Il est décédé le 29 novembre 1330 dans Elms of Smithfield, Tyburn, London, Middlesex, England, il avait 43 ans.

  Oorzaak: Executed by hanging

• Il est enterré dans Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, Great Britain, Chapelle des Frères Gris.Source 3
• Un enfant de Edmund I de Mortimer et Marguerite de Fiennes
• Cette information a été mise à jour pour la dernière fois le 4 décembre 2022.

Famille de Roger I 'le jeune' de Mortimer 8ème Baron de Wigmore, 1er Comte des Marches

Il est marié avec Jeanne de Joinville.

Ils se sont mariés avant le 6 octobre 1306 à Shropshire, England, Great Britain.

BEF Shropshire.ENGLAND
Mariage : avant le 6 octobre 1306

Enfant(s):

1. Catherine de Mortimer  ± 1309-1369 
2. Geoffroi de Mortimer  ± 1317-> 1372 
3. Edmund de Mortimer  1306-1331 
4. Maud de Mortimer  ± 1307-> 1345 
5. Roger II de Mortimer  ± 1309-???? 
6. Beatrice de Mortimer  ????-1383 
7. Agnès de Mortimer  ± 1313-1369 
8. John de Mortimer  ± 1321-????
9. Joan de Mortimer  1288-1357 
10. Margaret de Mortimer  1308-1337 
11. Blanche de Mortimer  ± 1316-1347 
12. Geoffrey Mortimer  ± 1310-????

Notes par Roger I 'le jeune' de Mortimer 8ème Baron de Wigmore, 1er Comte des Marches

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Notes REMARKS:
Instrumental in the murder of King Edward II

BIOGRAPHY
Roger was born on either 25 April or 3 May 1287. On 29 July 1304 the wardship of his lands was granted to Piers Gaveston. On 30 December 1304 Roger had permission to pay off his father's debts at the rate of £20 a year. On 9 April 1306, although still under age, he was given control of his lands, apparently having satisfied Piers Gaveston by paying him 2,500 marks for licence to marry.

On 22 May 1306 he was made a knight with many others by the king at Westminster at the same time as the Prince of Wales. Before 6 October 1306 he married Joane de Geneville. Some time in 1306 he performed service in Scotland, and in October, as he was one of those who left the king's service there without permission, his lands were seized. However, he was pardoned in the following January and his lands were restored at the intercession of Queen Margaret.

On 15 December 1307 the Justiciar of Ireland was ordered to deliver to him the lands of his inheritance in Ireland, although he was still under age. By inheritance and through his marriage he became a great magnate in both Wales and in Ireland. At the coronation of King Edward II he was one of the four bearers of the royal robes. He was summoned for military service against the Scots in 1308 and in 1309. On 28 October 1308 Sir Roger and his wife went to Ireland and took possession of Meath, his wife's inheritance.

In 1316 he was defeated in Ireland by Edward Bruce, after which he returned to England and later helped the Earl of Pembroke to suppress a revolt in Bristol. On 23 November 1316 he was appointed the King's Lieutenant in Ireland. On 3 June 1317 he defeated Walter de Lacy and his men; the next day, when Walter and his three brothers again attacked, he again defeated them. In 1318 he was recalled to England. In the dispute between the king and the Despencers on the one hand and the Earl of Lancaster on the other, Mortimer seems to have tried to keep a middle course with the Earl of Pembroke. On 15 March 1319 he was appointed Justiciar of Ireland and held this office till January 1321.

In 1321 King Edward II summoned Roger and the Earl of Hereford to attend him, but they refused to come because the younger Despencer was with the king. On 28 June 1321 Roger and his uncle were present at the meeting of the Barons at Sherburn, as a result of which the king was forced to banish the Despencers and pardon the Mortimers to whom the Welsh Marches were returned.

On 12 November 1321 he was ordered to abstain from the meeting of the 'Good Peers' which Thomas of Lancaster had convened for 29 November. Later, when the forces of the king besieged the castle of Leeds in Kent, which had refused admission to the queen, Hereford and Mortimer came as near as Kingston, but did nothing to relieve Leeds castle. On 22 January 1322 the Mortimers, receiving no help from the Earl of Lancaster, surrendered to the king and were sent to the Tower.

When the Earl of Lancaster was overthrown at Boroughbridge on 22 March 1322, the Despencers returned to power and the Mortimers were tried and condemned to death, but the sentence was commuted to perpetual imprisonment. On 1 August 1324 Roger escaped from the Tower, the guards having been drugged, and went to France. Here he helped the French King Charles IV in his war with Edward II in Guienne.

In the spring of 1325 Queen Isabella crossed over to France to arrange peace in Guienne between her husband Edward II and her brother Charles IV. In September 1325 she was followed by her eldest son, the future Edward III, who came to do homage for Aquitaine. During this time Mortimer became the lover of Queen Isabella as well as her adviser.

On 24 September 1326 the queen, Mortimer, Jean of Hainault and their forces landed near Ipswich where they were joined by Henry, Earl of Lancaster, and other opponents of the Despencers. The king and the Despencers fled to Wales pursued by Mortimer, and on 26 October 1326 the elder Despencer was captured at Bristol, tried and hanged. On 16 November 1326 the king and the younger Despencer were captured at Llantrisant. The next day Mortimer ordered the execution of Arundel, and on 24 November Mortimer, Lancaster and Kent sat in judgment on the younger Despencer and had him hanged on gallows 50 feet high.

On 7 January 1327 Parliament deposed Edward II and made his son king. Mortimer was present on 28 January when Edward III gave the Great Seal to the new Chancellor, the Bishop of Ely, and on 1 February he was also present at the Coronation of Edward III. He received a pardon for his escape from the Tower as well as having his lands restored to him.

In October 1328 he was created Earl of March, the first earldom created in England which was not a county. Until then he had had little opposition in his career of self-aggrandisement since his return from exile. While holding no office in the government, he obtained posts in it for his friends. At the same time he secured for himself through Queen Isabella a flood of lucrative grants, which enabled him to make a display of great magnificence while exercising almost regal power.

However, discontent had been growing among his rivals. The first to show his resentment was Henry, Earl of Lancaster, who had been appointed guardian of the young king but had gradually been ousted by Mortimer. Mortimer overran Lancaster's lands and seized Leicester. As well, Lancaster's adherents deserted him, leaving Mortimer in ascendancy for the time being. As a result, further grants were made to him and his wife.

Early in 1330 he tricked Edmund, Earl of Kent, into a plot to restore Edward II, making him believe this monarch was still alive. The resulting trial for treason, condemnation and execution was a success for Mortimer but rebounded against him. Edward III, resenting the control of Mortimer as well as his influence over his mother, headed a conspiracy to get rid of Mortimer.

When Queen Isabella and Mortimer were staying at Nottingham Castle, its governor revealed to William de Montagu a secret passage into the castle whereby Mortimer's Welsh guards could be evaded. On the night of 18 October 1330 the conspirators burst in on Mortimer, who slew one of his assailants but was overpowered and arrested by order of the king. Ignoring the pleas of the Queen Mother, he was sent to London with two of his sons. On 28 October Edward III took the government into his own hands and, in the Parliament of 26 November, Mortimer was impeached, found guilty without being heard in his defence, and condemned to be executed.

He died on 29 November 1330, being dragged to execution like a felon and hanged at the Elms, Tyburn. His body was left on the gallows for two days and two nights, and then buried in the Church of the Grey Friars at Shrewsbury. Sources 1. [S00058 ] The Complete Peerage, 1936 , Doubleday, H.A. & Lord Howard de Walden, Reference: VIII 433
2. [S00010 ] A Genealogical History of the dormant, abeyant,forfeited and extinct peerages of the British Empire, London, 1866, Burke, Sir Bernard, Reference: 384
3. [S00175 ] The Ancestry of Elizabeth of York, 1999. , Lewis, Marlyn, Reference: 288

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Profession : 8ème Baron de Wigmore, 1er Comte des Marches
Amant d'Isabelle de France, Reine d'Angleterre.
Pendu pour avoir comploté et tué le roi Edouard II.

1st Earl of March, Baron of Wigmore

euweb.dir Joan, *1285/86, +1356; m.Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March (*ca 1287, +1330)

Despotic and lawless.
Effectively ruled England after the murder of king Edward II of England because of his influence he had on the queen. He enriched himself immensely at the exspence of his fellow noble men, who finally captured and executed him by the elms of Smithfield.

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