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MORTIMER.

MORTIMER.

Barony by Writ.

I. 1296.

1. SIMON DE MORTIMER (possibly a yr. br. of Elmund, 1st LORD MORTIMER) was sum. to Parl. as a Baron (LORD MORTIMER), 26 Aug. (296), 24 Ed. L.. but never afterwards. There is no acount of him in "Dugdale," or, apparently, elsewhere. MORTIMER, or MORTIMER DE CHIRCKE.


Barony by Writ. I. 1299.

1. ROGER DE MORTIMER, br. to Edmund, 1st LORD MORTIMER (being a yr. s. of Sir Roger DE MORTIMER, of Wigmore, co, Hereford, by Mand, da, and coheir of William DE BRAOSE, of Brecknock), having acquired,[1]) the Lordship of Chirk, co. Denbigh, was summ, to Parl. as a Baron (LORD MORTIMER) from 6 Feb. (1298/9), 27 Ed. 1., to 3 Nov. (1306), 34 Ed. I. by writs directed "Rogero de Mortuo Mari" and (as LORD MORTIMER DE CHIRCKE), by writs from 26 Aug. (1307), 1 El. II., to 15 May (1321). 11 Ed. 11.,[2] with the addition of the words "de Chircke."[3] His name appears as "Rogerus de Mortuo Mari. Dominus de Pentkellyn," in the famous letter of the Barons to the Pope, 1301[4] He served in the wars with France, Scotland and Wales, being the King's Lieutenant in Wales and subsequently (1322) Justice of all Wales. Taking part against the Despencers he was (with his nephew, Lord Mortimer de Wigmore) imprisoned in 1832. He m. Lucy, da. of Sir Robert DE WAFRE. He d. after 4 years imprisonment in the Tower of London, 3 Aug. 1336, and was bur, in the Abbey of Wigmore. II. 1336. 2. ROGER DE MORTIMER, of Chirk, s. and h., was never sum. to Parl. as a Baron. He m. Joane DE TUBBERVILLE and was suc, by JOHN DE MORTIMER, his s. and h., who sold the estate of Chirk to Richard (Fitzalan), Earl of Arundel, and who was never summoned as a Baron, nor any of his posterity tho' the Barony is presumably in abeyance among them.

MORTIMER [of Richards Castle.]

Barony by Writ. I. 1299,

1. HUGH DE MORTIMER, of Richards Castle, co. Hereford, s. and h. of Robert DE MORTIMER,[5] of the same, by Joyre, da. and h. of William ZOUCHE, suc. his father in 1287 and became of full age about 1295; was sum., 26 Jan. (1296/7), 25 Ed. L, to a meeting at Salisbury, such summons, however, not being a regular summons to Park, and was sum. to Parl[6]. as a Baron (LORD MORTIMER) on 6 Feb. (12989) and 10 April (1299), 27 Ed. I. He m. about 1290 Maud. He d. s.p.m. (1303-04), 32 Ed. 1., when the Barony fell into abeyances[7] to

1304.

  1. ↑ (a) It is stated by Powel, the Welsh historian, that he was guardian to the younger of the two sons of Griffith ap Madoe, who took the part of the English; John (de Warenne, Earl of Surrey, being guardian to the elder son, whose portion was the Lordship of Bromfield, while the Lordship of Chirk, was that of the younger. Both these guardians, however "so guarded these, their wards, that they never returned to their possessions and, shortly after, obtained these lands to themselves by charter."
  2. ↑ (b) His name occurs in the rolls of Earl. before the record of writs of summons cominenced.
  3. ↑ (c) "In 1307, his nephew Roger de Mortimer of Wigmore became of age and the addition of de Churcke was adopted to distinguish them." [Courthopc.]
  4. ↑ (d) See full account of this letter in "Nicolas," pp. 761-809.
  5. ↑ (e) This Robert, who was aged 22 in 1275, when he suc. his father, was s. and h. of Hugh de Mortimer (d. 1275), who was s. and h. of Robert de Mortimer (dead in 1219), by Margaret, da. and h. of Hugh de Ferrers, by Mabel, da, and h. of Hugh de Say, of Richards Castle abovenamed.
  6. ↑ (f) See vol. i, p. 111, note "b," sub "Ap Adam," as to this not constituting a regular writ of summons to Parl.
  7. ↑ (g) The coheirs were his two daughters of whom (1) Joan, aged 12, in 1304, was wife of Sir Thomas de Eikenor in 1315-16, by whom she had no issue. She m.
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