MORTIMER FAMILY
CHART X
1035 Ralph Mortimer [1]
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1065
Ralph of Wigmore, lv 1100 [2]
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1090 Hugh, obit 1142 [3]
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1125 Hugh, Jr ob 1188
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1160 Robert
1155 Roger, lv 1179 (4)
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1190 Hugh Matilda 1185 1190 Ralph, ob 1246 [5]
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1225 Robert Sir John de Brampton 1175
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1255 Hugh, Baron
of Burford, ob 1304 [6]
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1290 Margaret
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1275
Sir Geoffrey Cornwall
CHART VII
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NOTES:
[1] Ralph Mortimer was, by maternal ancestors, a 3rd cousin of King William
I and accompanied him at Hastings. The senior branch of the family was seated at Wigmore in Herefordshire.
[2] In the year 1100, Ralph of Wigmore was banished to France for his plot
to elevate a son-in-law to the English crown when William Rufus died without sons
[3] When Stephen succeeded Henry I as king, he restored Wigmore to Hugh
Mortimer, son of Ralph.
[4] Roger Mortimer, son of Hugh II, warred against the Welsh lords of Ceri
even though they were allies of King Henry II. He was briefly jailed in 1179 for killing Cadwallon ap Madog, Lord of
Ceri
[5] Ralph Mortimer married Gwladys Ddu, daughter of Llewelyn Fawr of Gwynedd;
she was born c. 1200
[6] A junior branch of the family held Burford in Oxfordshire, but it's
heiress carried that manor to the Cornwall family in the early 1300's
SOURCES:
[1] Burke's Dormant and Extinct Peerages, pp 382/384 for the basic pedigree of
the Mortimers of Wigmore
[2] Visitation of Shropshire of 1623, pp 146 for the marriage of Margaret Mortimer
to Sir Geoffrey Cornwall
[3] ibid, pp 304 for the marriage of Maltilda Mortimer to Sir John de Brampton
