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{geni:about_me} MORTIMER family, of Wigmore. Herefordshire.
The Mortimer family came over to England from Normandy as part of the invading army of William the Conqueror, and c. 1075, one of the family, Ralph de Mortimer. was granted certain lands in Shropshire and Herefordshire, with the castle and township of Wigmore in the latter county as focal point. It was from this beginning that the family eventually grew to be a dominant factor in Welsh border history. There are references to the first Ralph fortifying the castle of 'Dinieithon,' and conquering 'Melenyth,' both in modern Radnorshire. During the 12th cent, it appears, from the scattered references available, that there was much fighting between the Mortimers and the Welsh. In 1144 Hugh de Mortimer reconquered Maelienydd and Elfael, this implying a previous conquest and loss, and in 1145 he captured the prince Rhys ap Hywel. He was also responsible for the death of Maredudd ap Madog ab Idnerth in 1146. roger de mortimer was imprisoned for two years in 1179 owing to his followers having been involved in the death of Cadwallon ap Madog, and in 1191 he was banished for three years, this time on a charge of conspiring with the Welsh against the king. He returned in due course, and in 1195 drove Cadwallon's sons out of Maelienydd. but in 1196 he and Hugh de Say of Richard's castle were heavily defeated by Rhys ap Gruffydd near Radnor. In the first half of the 13th cent. Llewelyn ap lorwerth became one of the most powerful princes in Cymru, and in 1230 the Mortimers associated themselves with this prince when Ralph de Mortimer m. his daughter Gwladus Ddu. Their son, Roger de Mortimer, considerably extended the family's territorial possessions in Cymru by his marriage in 1247 with Matilda, eldest daughter of William de Braose (see under Braose), formerly Lord of Brecon. Matilda was also joint heir of the Marshal estates in right of her mother Eve, daughter of William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke (see Marshal family). To the Mortimers, therefore, she brought a third of the great honour of Brecon, the lordship of Radnor, and lands in Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire. With such territorial accretions the family was now assuming a dominant position as marcher lords. Roger's great adversary in Cymru was his kinsman, the Welsh prince Llewelyn ap Gruffydd. There was intermittent fighting and truce-making until both met their deaths in 1282. The struggle between marcher lord and Welsh prince became at this juncture merged in the larger contest between the barons and Henry III, and, later, in the campaigns of Edward I against Cymru. In 1262 and 1266 Mortimer was heavily defeated by Llywelyn, and, in Sept. 1267, by the Treaty of Montgomery, large portions of his land were surrendered to that prince. In Nov. 1276 Mortimer was appointed captain for Shropshire, Staffordshire, and Herefordshire, and the adjoining districts, in Edward I's campaign against the Welsh. He was successful in wresting much land from his adversaries. During this time he was also extremely active in the king's service in judicial affairs. He d. in 1282.
Edmund de Mortimer (d. 1304) was constantly requested to take measures against the rebellion of Rhys ap Maredudd of Ystrad Tywi, 1287-88. His son, Roger de Mortimer, later 1st Earl of March, combined with his powerful uncle Roger of Chirk (q.v.), and made the family a major power in Welsh affairs. Fearing the influence of their great rivals, the Despensers, in South Cymru, they sided with the Earl of Hereford in his quarrel with the Despensers concerning the acquisition of Gower in 1321. They conducted a successful military campaign in South Cymru, but in Jan. 1321/2, having taken up arms against the king, they were defeated and imprisoned. With the accession of Edward III, however. Roger Mortimer of Wigmore enjoyed greater favour than ever. On 20 Feb. 1326/7, he was appointed justice of Cymru and of the bishopric of Llandaff during the king's pleasure. The latter office was renewed on 4 Aug. 1328, and he was made justice of Cymru for life on 27 Aug. 1328. The appointment as justice of Cymru was renewed on 4 Nov. 1328,. after his elevation to the earldom of March, and on the same day he was appointed justice in the bishopric of St. Davids for life. He had, in June, 1327, been granted custody of the lands of 'Glamorgan and Morgannwg' during the king's pleasure, and in Sept. 1327 was granted lands worth £1.000 per annum, including the castle of Denbigh and the escheated lands of the Earl of Arundel in Cymru. His official position, allied to his great landed possessions, made him well-nigh supreme in Cymru until his death in 1330, when he was executed as a traitor.
The next heir was the 1st earl's grandson. Roger de Mortimer (1327?-60), and he, in spite of his grandfather's treason, was gradually allowed to regain his estates in the Welsh March. He d. Feb. 1359/60. During the remainder of the 14th cent, the family does not appear to have played any outstanding part in Welsh affairs. They, however, became connected with the rebellion of Owain Glyndwr at the beginning of the next century. When Roger de Mortimer, 4th earl of March (q.v.), d. in 1398, his son, Edmund, was still a minor, and consequently Roger's brother, also called Edmund, became the most important representative of the family in the Welsh March. When the Glyndwr rebellion broke out, he was associated with his brother-in-law, Henry Percy, in measures against the rebellion. Captured by Glyndwr in 1402, he, however, m. his captor's daughter, Catherine, and entered boldly into his schemes. In the famous treaty of partition drawn up between Mortimer, Glyndwr, and the Earl of Northumberland, Mortimer was to receive the southern half of England. All. however, came to naught and Mortimer perished in the siege of Harlech castle, 1409? Edmund the nephew d. 1425, and the estates now passed to Richard, Duke of York, son of Anne Mortimer and Richard, Duke of Cambridge.
B.T.; Ann. C.; Annales MonasTici; Flores Historiarum; Chronica . . . S. 'Trokelowe; Eulogium Hist.', Cal. Pat. R.', Cal. Charter R.; Cal. Fine R.; Cal. Chancery R.; Dugdale, Monasticon; Rymer, Foedera; Rotidi Parliamentorum; Parliamentary Writs; Chronicon Adas de Usk; Hist. II7.; Complete Peerage; V. M. Powicke, Henry III and the Lord Edward; J. E. Morris, Welsh Wars of Edward I; T. F. Tout, Edward II in English Hist.: W. H. Waters, Edwardian Settlement . . . ,N. Cymru; .}. E. Lloyd. Owen Glendower; D.X.B.; B. P. Evans. 'The Mortimer Family' (Ph.D. thesis, University of Cymru, in N.L.VV.'' ; Trans. R.H.S., 1915; P. Barbier, The Age of Owain Gwynedd.
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RODULF (e) DE WARENNE derived his name from the hamlet of Varenne (dept. Seine-Inférieure) on the little river Varenne in Normandy. His parentage is unknown. He is said to have held land outside the walls of Rouen under Robert I, Duke of Normandy (died 1035), and the Cartulary of the abbey of the Holy Trinity on the Mont de Rouen proves that he held a considerable territory on both banks of the Seine upstream from Rouen. He also held land at Vascoeuil (dept. Eure), which he gave about 1053 to the abbey of St. Pierre de Préaux (b), and in the pays de Caux, north of Rouen, where he sold 4 churches with tithes to the Holy Trinity in 1059, and gave another church, also with tithes, in 1074. He married Beatrice, whose mother was almost certainly a sister of Gotmund Rufus DE VASCOEUIL, daughter of Tesselin, Vicomte of Rouen. She was living about 1053. [Complete Peerage XII/1:491-2, XIV:603]
(e) His christian name is Latinised both as Rodulfus and as Radulfus (Ralph), This confusion occurs in other families (eg. the founder of the "Tancarvilles") and is probably due to two somewhat similar names having been assimilated into one; eg. Ranulf (from Hrabenwulf) and Randolf (from Randwulf). Scribes were then likely to change Rodulfus when copying early charters.
(b) Before May 1055 Rodulf sold to the monks land at Blosseville and Eauplet, on the right bank of the Seine, and Sotteville on the left bank. Subsequently he sold them all his rights in Blosseville, Mesnil-Esnard, Neuvillette, Lescure and Eauplet.
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[From "The Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Families"]
For this identification see Mr. Loyd's paper 'The Origin of the Family of Warenne' in Yorkshire Arch. Journal, vol. xxxi, pp. 97-113. The hamlet of Varenne lies on the river Varenne c. 2 miles S of Arques and c. 13 miles N of Bellencombre. The latter place, arr. Dieppe, cant. Bellencombre, where there was a castle, became the caput of the Warenne honour in Normandy.
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Curt Hofemann, (XXXXX@XXXX.XXX), provided the
following additional information on Rodulf, in a post-em:
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Rodulf (Ralph) I de Warenne
K.S.B. Keats-Rohan "Poppa of Bayeux and her Family":
1027-35: first occurrence of Ralph de Warenne in a charter for Saint-Amand [p22]
c1050: grant of land in Vascoeuil by Ralph de Warenne and wife Beatrice; charter mentions Ralph's brother Godfrey and was attested by Gotmund miles abbatis. Dateable to c1050 by a reference to Roger de Beaumont as Vicomte of Rouen [p22]
1050's: well known charters of early 1050s by which Ralph de Warenne and his wife Beatrice were associated with the lands of Roger fitz Bishop Hugh of Coutances and his sons. [p23]
Research note: K-R p22 contradicts CP (& Holloway & Wagner) by stating Rodulph/Ralph died before Beatrice. Beatrice is listed as living 1053 (CP XII/1:492 & ES III:698) & dead before 1059 (CP XII/1:492, K-R p22, Moriarty p184, Wagner p46]. K-R states a grant "made by widow Beatrice" to Preaux of land near Dozule, Eure was "dated during the time of William son of Count Robert, suggesting that William had not yet begun the series of military achievements that enabled him to be detached from his father in such references, i.e. before c1054-60". To do: check CP's source of the 1074 grant. Also is the term "widow" K-R's or stated in the grant of the land near Dozule?... Curt
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