Baron of Wigmore, Herefordshire, Constable of Clun Castle, Shropshire. Younger son of Roger de Mortimer, Baron ofWigmore and Isabel daughter of Walkelin de Ferrers of Oakham, Rutland, Lechlade and Longbridge, Gloucestershire.Husband of Gwladus du of Wales, daughter of Llywelyn ap Iowerth, Price of North Wales and Joan of England, daughter of John Lackland. They had four sons and one daughter. Gwladus had been previously married, as his second wife, to Reynold de Brewes, son of William and Maud St Valery.
After their marriage, Gwladus's father conceded him the castles of Knighton and Norton, Shropshire, and lands in Ceri and Cydewen. He succeeded his elder brother before 23 November 1227 and built Cefnllys and Knucklas castles in 1240.
Promised William the Conqueror fifty ships, ten less than Montgomery, FitzOsberne, Beaumont and Avranches.
One of four men (Walter Gifford, Eustace II of Boulogne and Ivo Ponthieu) to actually kill King Harold II at the Battle of Senlac.
Montfort, Hugh deAlso called Hugh Beard. From Montfort-sur-Risle, Eure. Regent with Odo of Bayeux and Earl William FitzOsbern in 1067. Castle at Saltwood, with extensive Kent holdings to defend coast. Also holdings in Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk.
For his services he received (before the completion of Domesclay) sixteen manors in Essex, fifty-one in Suffolk, nineteen in Norfolk, and twenty-eight in Kent, in addition to a large proportion of Romney Marsh, and was one of the barons intrusted by the Conqueror witli the administration of justice throughout England, under Bishop Odo and William Fitz Osbern in 1067; and by the Bishop himself, Hugh de Montfort was made Governor of the Castle of Dover, the chief fortress in Odo's own earldom, and the key of the kingdom. His absence on other duties with the Bishop south of the Thames was taken advantage of by the Kentish malcontents, and led to the assault of the castle by the Count of Boulogne, the failure of which has been already related.
Became deeply religious and lived his remaining days as a monk in the abbey of Le Bec.
The monk of Jumièges informs us that he was twice married, but names neither of his wives; one, however, appears by his account (Lib. vii. ch. 38) to have been a daughter of Richard de Bellofago (Beaufoe), by a daughter of the Count of lvri, and was therefore niece of John, Archbishop of Rouen, of Hugh, Bishop of Bayeux, and of the wife of Osbern de Crépon. By the first we are told he had two sons, Hugh and Robert, and by the second, a daughter named Alice, eventually heir to her brothers, both of whom died without issue, and who became the wife of Gilbert de Gant, son of Baldwin VI Count of Flanders, and consequently nephew of Queen Matilda.
The date of the death of Hugh II, who became a monk in the Abbey of Bec, is not known, but if the holder in Domesday, he must of course have been living in 1085, his father having been slain some forty-eight or forty-nine years, previously. He might probably, therefore, be a young man at the battle of Mortemer in 1054, between forty and fifty at the time of the Conquest, and under seventy if he survived the accession of Rufus. His second son Robert was Commander-in-Chief of the Norman army in Maine in 1099, and on his joining the Crusaders under Bohemund, in 1107, received a hearty welcome and a high rank in the army in consequence, as Orderic speaks of his being " hereditary Marshal of Normandy." ["Strator Normanici exercitus hereditario jure."]
Robert of Mortain, the son of Herluin of Conteville and Herleva of Falaise, was born in about 1038. Herleva was also the mother of William of Normandy, Richard Fitz Gilbert and Odo of Bayeux. Founded Pevensey Castle
In 1048 William of Normandy had a dispute with William of Warling. William began to doubt the loyalty of William of Warling and gave his land in Mortain to Robert.
When William the Conqueror decided to invade England in 1066, he invited his three half-brothers, Robert, Richard Fitz Gilbert and Odo of Bayeux to join him. One Norman chronicler claims that Robert of Mortain contributed 120 ships to William's invasion fleet.
After his coronation in 1066, William the Conqueror claimed that all the land in England now belonged to him. William retained about a fifth of this land for his own use. The rest was distributed to those men who had helped him defeat Harold at the Battle of Hastings.
Robert of Mortain was granted manors in Cornwall (248), Yorkshire (196), Northamptonshire (99), Devon (75), Sussex (54), Dorset (49) and Buckinghamshire (29). He also had manors in ten other counties. His 793 manors made him the second largest landowner in England.
In exchange for this land. Robert had to promise to provide the king with sixty knights. In order to supply these knights, barons divided their land up into smaller units called manors. These manors were then passed on to men who promised to serve as knights when the king needed them.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/NORmortain.htm
He was created Earl of Cornwall, in which county alone he possessed two hundred and forty-eight manors at the time of the compilation of Domesday; fifty-four in Sussex, besides the borough of Pevensey; seventy-five in Devonshire, forty-nine in Dorsetshire, twenty-nine in Buckinghamshire, thirteen in Hertfordshire, ten in Suffolk, ninety-nine in Northumberland, one hundred and ninety-six in Yorkshire, and twenty-four in other counties, amounting altogether to seven hundred and ninety-seven, with two castles in his county of Cornwall, one at Dunhever and the other af Tremeton. In the great battle of Senlac, Wace tells us he never went far from the Duke, and commanded the chivalry of the Cotentin, but he is not conspicuously delineated in that portion of the Bayeux Tapestry. His share of the spoil is said to have been the greatest. He was created Earl of Cornwall, in which county alone he possessed two hundred and forty-eight manors at the time of the compilation of Domesday; fifty-four in Sussex, besides the borough of Pevensey; seventy-five in Devonshire, forty-nine in Dorsetshire, twenty-nine in Buckinghamshire, thirteen in Hertfordshire, ten in Suffolk, ninety-nine in Northumberland, one hundred and ninety-six in Yorkshire, and twenty-four in other counties, amounting altogether to seven hundred and ninety-seven, with two castles in his county of Cornwall, one at Dunhever and the other af Tremeton.
In 1069, the Earl of Cornwall and Robert Comte d'Eu were left by King William in Lindsey to watch the Danes who had landed at the mouth of the Humber and invested York, but alarmed at the approach of the Royal forces retreated to the opposite shore, and took shelter in the fens. Availing themselves of the opportunity afforded them by a festival at which the disaffected inhabitants liad invited the invaders to be present, the two Earls fell upon them unexpectedly, and pursued them with great slaughter to their very ships. We hear little of him from that period till we find him beside the death-bed of the elder William, supplicating for the pardon and release of his brother Odo, which the King, with great reluctance, at length conceded to the urgent and incessant entreaties of the Earl and his friends. "My brother Odo," said the dying monarch, " is a man not to be trusted—ambitious, given to fleshly desires, and of enormous cruelty. There is no doubt that if he is released he will disturb the whole country, and be the ruin of thousands." The petitioners pledging themselves for the Bishop's reformation, the King yielded from mere weariness, observing, " It is against my own judgment that I permit my brother to be liberated, for be assured that he will cause the death or the grievous injury of many persons."
More at http://genealogy.patp.us/conq/mortain.shtml
Robert, Count of Mortain (d. 1095) was a half-brother of William the Conqueror, and became a great landholder in both England and Normandy.
He was the son of William the Conqueror's mother Herleva, and Herluin de Conteville. Odo, Bishop of Bayeux was his older full brother. He was probably born around 1040, but perhaps a few years earlier.
Around 1055 Duke William was consolidating his hold on the duchy, and having disposessed the count of Mortain, gave the county to Robert. Mortain was a frontier territory, bordering on Brittany and Maine, and Robert contributed to the defense of the duchy by constructing castles at the town of Mortain, and at St. Hilaire-du-Harcouet, le Tilleul, and Tinchebrai.
During the next decade Robert was a close counselor of his half-brother, appearing frequently at his court, including the councils at which the invasion of England was planned. He surely fought at the Battle of Hastings itself, though he chronicles of the time are not specific, and more importantly he contributed a significant part of the invasion fleet.
After the conquest, Robert obtained a large holding in England, including the strategic Rape of Pevensey in Sussex, and other lands guarding London, including Berkhamsted, Lambeth and Bermondsey. In 1072 he was entrusted with Cornwall after the previous ruler returned home to Brittany, though probably he never formally became earl. Nevertheless he was the second greatest lay magnate in England.
Robert seems to have been uninterested in English politics -- some say he lacked the cleverness for it -- and he spent most of the remainder of the Conqueror's reign in Normandy. He stayed loyal to William to the end, even when his brother Odo of Bayeux rebelled and was imprisoned. At the dying duke's bedside he successfully argued for Odo's release.
Odo seems to have pushed him into action, for Robert took part in the Rebellion of 1088 which attempted to replace William Rufus with Robert Curthose. After Pevensey surrendered and the rebellion failed, Rufus pardoned Robert, while Odo was exiled to Normandy. Their differing treatment may reflect contemporary assessment of Robert's lack of initiative.
He married Matilda, daughter of Roger of Montgomery, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, and was succeeded by their son William, Count of Mortain.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%2C_Count_of_Mortain
Count of Mortain Alford, Appley, Ashbrittle, Ashill, Athelney, Babcary, Barrow, Beercocombe, Bickenhall, Bradford, Bradon, Broadway, Brushford, Charlton Adam, Chelvey, Chilthorn, Chinnock, Chiselborough, Clapton, Clapton(Cucklington), Clevedon, Cloford, Closworth, Clutton, Cricket Malherbie, Cricket St Thomas, Crowcombe, Cucklington, Donyatt, Easthams, Eckweek, Foddington, Ford, Greenham, Hatch Beaychamp, Hele, Houndstone, Isle Brewers, Keinton Mandeville, Kingstone, Lopen, Lufton, Marston Magna, Merriott, Milton Clevedon, Montacute (Castle and chief Domain), North Perrott, Norton FitzWarren, Norton sub Hamdon, Odcombe, Pendomer, Preston, Redlynch, Shepton Beauchamp, Shepton Montague, Sock Dennis, Staple Fitzpaine, Steart, Stoke Trister, Stoney Stoke, Sutton Montis, Swell, Thorne, Thornfalcon, Thurlbear, Tintinhull, Weston Bampfylde, Whitestaunton, Woolston(South Cadbury), Yeovil. http://www.infokey.com/Domesday/Somerset.htm
Robert Earl of Cornwall had taken to wife previously to the Conquest, but at what period we are ignorant, Matilda, daughter of Roger de Montgomeri, Earl of Shrewsbury, and by her left one son, William, of whom I have just spoken, and three daughters — Agnes, first offered in marriage to William de Grentmesnil, but afterwards the wife of André de Vitry, Denise, married in 1078 to Guy, 3rd Sire de La Val, of whom more hereafter; and Emma, wife of William Count of Toulouse.
More at http://genealogy.patp.us/conq/mortain.shtml
Lord of the Isles, Governor of Scots Island, Earl of Strathclyde, hereditary Abbot of Dunkeld, Mormaer of Athole, Abthane of Dule; kin of St. Columba.
Crínán of Dunkeld (died 1045) was the lay abbot of the diocese of Dunkeld, and perhaps the Mormaer of Atholl. Crínán was progenitor of the House of Dunkeld, the dynasty who would rule Scotland until the later 13th century.
Crinán was married to Bethoc, daughter of King Malcolm II of Scotland (reigned 1005-1034). As Malcolm II had no son, the strongest hereditary claim to the Scottish throne descended through Bethóc, and Crinán's eldest son Donnchad I (reigned 1034-1040), became King of Scots. Some sources indicate that Malcolm II designated Duncan as his successor under the rules of tanistry because there were other possible claimants to the throne.
Crinán's second son, Maldred of Allerdale, held the title of Lord of Cumbria. It is said that from him, the Earls of Dunbar, for example Patrick Dunbar, 9th Earl of Dunbar, descend in unbroken male line.
Crinán was killed in battle in 1045 at Dunkeld.
The monastery of Saint Columba was founded on the north bank of the River Tay in the 6th century or early 7th century following the expedition of Columba into the land of the Picts. Probably originally constructed as a simple group of wattle huts, the monastery - or at least its church - was rebuilt in the 9th century by Kenneth I of Scotland (reigned 843-858). Kenneth I brought relics of Columba from Iona to Dunkeld at the same time others were taken to Kells in Ireland, to protect them from Viking raids. Dunkeld became the prime bishopric in eastern Scotland until supplanted in importance by St Andrews since the 10th century.
While the title of Hereditary Lay Abbot was a feudal position that was often exercised in name only, Crinán does seem to have acted as Abbot in charge of the monastery in his time. He was thus a man of high position in both clerical and secular society.
The magnificent semi-ruined Dunkeld Cathedral, built in stages between 1260 and 1501, stands today on the grounds once occupied by the monastery. The Cathedral contains the only surviving remains of the previous monastic society: a course of red stone visible in the east choir wall that may be re-used from an earlier building, and two stone 9th century-10th century cross-slabs in the Cathedral Museum.
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Had two sons, Robert and Charles
As per Joseph Hunter's "Familiae Minorum Gentium" Vol. I, p. 241, and the Herald's Visitations in Yorkshire, the line continues to:
Will dated 1531
Children:
Charles, son and heir, died young, m1: Christian, dtr of Bryan Hastings and
2: Frances Frobischer
Robert, heir to brother Charles
Thomas
Nicholas, became a priest, Papal Emissary BA Cambridge 1542, BA same, living
in Rome Dec 9, 1586
Anthony
Charles
Gervase
Francis
Elizabeth m Thomas Cranmer of Aslockton, Notts
Mary m John Paget
Joan d without issue
Frances d without issue
Dorothy m John Stagg
Anne m Thomas Compton of Willingham, Lincolnshire
Jane m John Norton, 2nd son of Richard of Norton Conyers
Isabel m Richard Halsworth
Joseph Hunter's "Familiae Minorum Gentium" Vol. I, p. 241, and the Herald's Visitations in Yorkshire
Will dated 1575
m1: Alice Markham, daughter of Sir John Markham of Colham, Nottinghamshire.
Children:
1. John, died young
2. Anthony, buried in Haworth Chapel
3. Ann, died young
4. Alice m. William Bradford (c1515-1595) father of William Bradford (1557-1591)
of Austerfield who married Alice Hansen (1562-1597), and had William Bradford
(1589/90-1657) who became Gov. of the Plymouth Colony
m2: Anne Norton daughter of John Norton of Norton Conyers and widow of Robert
Plumpton.
Children:
1. Robert Morton, executed as a traitor London Aug., 15, 1588.
2. Sampson Morton, went to Rome.
3. Daniel Morton, went to Rome.
4. Elizabeth Morton, died young.
Sherif of Nottingham and Derby, 1362.
Children:
Robert
William of St Andrews, Milburn, Dorset
From Joseph Hunter's "Familiae Minorum Gentium" Vol. I, p. 241, and the Herald's Visitations in Yorkshire
Robertof Morton, m Cicley, dau of Nicholas Knyveton, of Miracaston
Child: Robert
From Joseph Hunter's "Familiae Minorum Gentium" Vol. I, p. 241, and the Herald's Visitations in Yorkshire
married Ales (Alice) dau of Sir Richard Bozon
Children:
Nicholas
Elizabeth m Laxton
Anne, m Richard Fishborne
Six other sons who died without issue
From Joseph Hunter's "Familiae Minorum Gentium" Vol. I, p. 241, and the Herald's
Visitations in Yorkshire
Anthony Morton
A fine is preserved, dated Trinity 1577 wherein William Bradfurthe is plaintiff and Anthony Morton and Mary, his wife, are deforciants, and lands at Austerfield and Bawtry are at issue (Yorks Fines). NEHGR 111:68.
"Anthony Morton wasted the Morton Estate" Anonymous. "Early History of the Morton Family: reprinted from an ancient book" 1931. University of Cambridge, England
http://www.pa.uky.edu/%7Eshapere/dkbingham/d0009/g0000009.html#I18985 lists his wife as Mary Plumpton born abt 1538 in Bawtry, Yorkshire, mother of last name.
From Harworth, near Scrooby 1623 in 'Anne' to Plymouth
Merchant of well-to-do Roman Catholic family; "Dict Am Biog" probably son of Anthony Morton a wealthy Catholic gentleman living near Scrooby, Nottinghamshire
Birth also listed as 2 Aug 1585 in Bantry, Nottinghamshire, England.
Also listed as born in Harworth (near Scrooby), Notts, England
Occupation: merchant
Crossed in 1623 on the Little James
died Jun 1624, Plymouth, Plymouth, MA, Age: 38
"George Morton was one of the founders of the colony of New Plymouth in Massachusetts, having been of that company of Puritans who left England in the early part of the seventeenth century, found a brief asylum in Holland, and came to America to establish a Christian state." M3
A George Morton is listed on the passenger list of The Anne (lists compile both The Anne and The Little James) with his wife, Julianna, children Patience, Nathaniel, John, Sarah and Ephraim. All lists note George's death in 1624.
George Morton (1585-1624), Separatist who joined the Plymouth Colony. Sailed on the Speedwell, a companion to the Mayflower which turned back. He married Juliana Carpenter on July 23 - Aug. 2, 1612 in Leyden, Holland. She was described as being from Bath, England. They came to Plymouth on the Anne, in 1623 with Juliana's sister Alice (Carpenter) Southworth, the widow of Sir Edward Southworth. Alice was coming to marry Gov. William Bradford (1589-1657) of the Plymouth Colony.
(Descendants of Levi Wood, 1755-1833, V. S. Pease, 1913). George Morton is noted as a man of affairs, and before joining the colony had acted for several years as fiscal agent for the Pilgrims. It was he who chartered the ship "Mayflower" which was the first to enter the service of transporting the Pilgrims from England to America. "Abraham Sampson in America" tells how he remained in Holland to promote the success of the colony by encouraging immigration. The work for which he is most noted is his publication since known as "Mourt's Relation". The Relation is composed of letters and journals from the chief colonists in Plymouth. He traveled on the Ann, the third and last ship to carry what are distinctively known as the forefathers. The Ann reached Plymouth early in June 1623. A year later, in June 1624, he died. Leon Clark Hills in History and Genealogy of the Mayflower Planters, agrees on his reaching the colony in 1623, but places him on the Little James, along with John Jenney and his family. There were only three families and a single man noted as passengers on the Little James. The Little James was intended to remain in the colony. In "Saints and Strangers", George Morton is noted to be of a well-to-do- Roman Catholic family of Harworth, in Bawtry and near Scrooby. He is also said to have died impoverished shortly after his arrival and his family was provided for by his brother-in-law, William Bradford.
Ken Shaw lists death: 16 AUG 1691 in "being entered into her 77 year of age",
Plymouth, Plymouth County
m2 Thomas Whitney
Appears on the Anne passenger
lists
Thomas Morton
Secretary to King Edward III
From Joseph Hunter's "Familiae Minorum Gentium" Vol. I, p. 241, and the Herald's Visitations in Yorkshire:
In a private genealogical record of one branch of George Morton's descendants, compiled by Stuart C. Wade, Esq., of New York, this interesting statement is made concerning the "Morton" name in England and France:
"The name of Morton, Moreton and Mortaigne is earliest found in old Dauphin, and is still existant in France, where it is represented by the present Comtes and Marquises Morton de Chabrillon, and where the family has occupied many important positions.
"In the annals of the family there is a statement repeatedly met with, that as a result of a quarrel one of the name migrated from Dauphin first to Brittany and then to Normandy, where he joined William the Conqueror. Certain it is that among the followers of William, painted on the chancel ceiling of the ancient church of Dives in old Normandy, is that of Robert, Comte de Mortain. It also figures on Battle Abbey Roll, the Domesday Book, and the Norman rolls, and it is conjectured that the Count Robert, who was also half brother of William the Conqueror, by his mother Harlotte, was the founder of the English family of that name.
In the Bayeux tapestry he is represented as of the Council of William, the result of which was the landing at Pevensey, the battle of Senlac or Hastings, and the conquest of England. The Reverend Mark Antony Lower, M. A., F. S. A., in his Dictionary of the Family Names of the United Kingdom (p. 229) supplies the most probable and reasonable origin of the family name of Moreton or Morton in this definition: 'Morton, an anglicized form of Mortain, a great baronial family founded in England by Robert, Earl of Mortaine, uterine brother of William the Conqueror.' This ancestral worthy deserves, as will be seen, a brief mention. According to Sidney Lee's Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. XXXIX, p. 117, he was Count of Mortain, in the diocese of Avranches, France, was present at the Council of Lillebonne to discuss the invasion of England, contributed one hundred and twenty ships to the fleet, and himself fought at the battle of Hastings. His possessions in England were larger than any other follower of William the Conqueror (Freeman, Norman Conquest, IV, p. 764) and have been estimated at 793 manors, (Brady, Introduction to Domesday, p. 13). He had 248 manors in Cornwall, 196 in Yorkshire, 99 in Northamptonshire, 75 in Devonshire, with a church and house in Exeter, 54 in Sussex and the borough of Pevensey, 49 in Dorset, 29 in Buckinghamshire, and one or more in ten other counties (Willis, I, p. 455). He had a castle of Mortain in Normandy and died in 1091. With such an origin for the name the map of England is found dotted with traces of Morton place-names, and a place-name is one of the most frequent sources of a family name. Thus John, who lived at Morton, became John de Morton on the adoption of surnames and, abandoning the "de," founded a family of Mortons."
This name is also legendary, is some opinions, the link between Pascent to Brochfael Ysgythrog of the Tusks.
Norman knight who made his fortune in the service of David fitz Malcolm, Prince of the Cumbrians (1113–24) and King of Scots (1124–53). His parentage is said by some to be unclear, but G. W. S. Barrow, in his Anglo-Norman era states: "it seems probable that the father of William, and the first Hugh de Morville, was the Richard de Morville who witnessed charters by Richard de Redvers for Montebourg and the church of St. Mary in the castle of Néhou in the early twelfth century."
On the other hand, it is thought[by whom?] to be pretty well established that Hugh came to David's service when (and because) David held Cotentin in north France, which in turn indicates that Hugh was personally from Normandy and therefore unlikely to be son of a Morville who already had settled to England. Hugh came from Morville in the Cotentin Peninsula, territory controlled by David since it had been given to him by King Henry I of England some time after 1106. It must have been sometime soon after 1106 that Hugh joined David's small French household followers and military retinue. In 1113 David became Earl of Huntingdon-Northampton (by marriage) and Prince of the Cumbrians, after forcing his brother Alexander, King of Scots, to hand over territory in southern "Scotland". David achieved this with his French followers. David endowed Hugh with the estates of Bozeat and Whissendine from his Huntingdon earldom, (which, since they are attested as his wife Beatrice's dowry, David presumably arranged by granting Hugh the wife who was herself inheriting them - this is a usual pattern of medieval rewards to lords: the reard comes in form of inheritance of an heiress whom the favored knight marries) and the baronies of Lauderdale and (perhaps later) Cunningham in Scotland. During David's take-over of northern England after 1136, Hugh was also given the lordship of Appleby - essentially northern Westmorland.
After the death of Edward, Constable of Scotland, almost certainly in 1138 at the Battle of the Standard, Hugh was given this position. In 1150 Hugh made a further mark on the history of southern Scotland by founding Dryburgh Abbey for Premonstratensian canons regular. Hugh eventually retired there as a canon, soon before his death in 1162. An ancient memorial to him in the South wall is said to mark his burial-place. Hugh married Beatrice, the heiress of Houghton Conquest, and daughter of Robert de Beauchamp, a son of Hugh de Beauchamp of Bedford. They had at least two sons and two daughters. Hugh de Morville, Lord of Westmorland, inherited his estates of north England. He was a principal player in the assassination of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury. He subsequently fell out of favour with the king and was forfeited (1174) when the Lordship of Westmorland (which he had inherited from his father who had received it from David I) was granted to his sister, Maud, whose husband was William de Vieuxpont. Richard de Morville, possibly the second son, inherited the Scottish estates along with his father's lands in the honour of Huntingdon. He also successed in the constableship of Scotland.
It has been proposed that Simon de Moreville (d. 1167), of Kirkoswald in Cumbria, who married Ada de Engaine, heiress of Burgh-by-Sands in Cumbria, was a son of Hugh and Beatrice. Before 1157, Hugh II's other sister, Ada married Roger Bertram, lord of Mitford, Northumberland. It has been suggested that Grace, wife of the Cumbrian magnate Sir Hubert de Vaux, of Gilsland, was yet another daughter of Hugh and Beatrice.
In a nut shell, one of histories most prominent stories. He gained estates through the Welsh Marches, more with his marriage to wealthy heiress Joan de Geneville, and became the Lord Lieutenant in Ireland. Leading the revolt (Despenser War) against Edward II put him in the Tower of London in 1322. He escaped, fled to France where Edward's queen Isabella, running from her husband, pleading help from her brother, King Charles of France, met Roger and they became lovers who would seige and destroy with joy alongside his Isabella. Edward's son, Edward III would eventually have him hung at Tyburn.
Knight, Baron of Wigmore, Herefordshire, Baron of Radnor, Ling's Lieutenant in Ireland, Justiciar of Ireland, Constable of Athlone, Builth, Rawdon and Roscommon Castles, Justice of North Wales.
Knighted by King Edward I on 22 May 1306 at WWestminster along with the Prince of Wales. Summoned to Parliament 1306, served in Scotland 1308-1310, Gascony in 1313 and against Llywelyn Bren in 1315. He allied with the other Marcher lords in the Despenser wars, leading to the seizure of his properties Jan 1322, as well as his imprisonment in the Tower of London. He managed to escape 01 Aug 1323 and rode to Dover, where a ship waited for him and carried him to the welcoming arms of the King of France, Charles IV. The spring of 1325 saw Isabel, Queen of England, wife of Edward II and sister of Charles IV crossed over to France. Roger and Isabel ended up in landers together, where money and men were financed to attack England. They landed at Ipswitch 24 Sept 1326, joined by Henry, Earl of Lancaster, and other enemies of the Despensers who had fairly free reign in England. The king was captured, Isabel gave custody of Wallingford Castle to Roger. In Jan parliament disposed Edward II and made his son, Edward II king. Roger was present for the coronation in 1326, and three of his sons were made knights: Edmund, Roger and Geoffrey. Roger ruled England for the next four years with his influence over Isabel, happily feasting together while they watched the public, vicious hanging and drawing of the Despensers. Roger became the Earl of March in 1328.
At long last, Edward III formed a conspiracy to rid himself of Mortimer and his constraints. Roger was seized at Nottingham Castle 18 Oct 1330 and sent to London where he was impeached in Parliament, found guilty without being able to speak in his defence, and condemned to be executed. He was hung, drawn and quartered at Tyburn Elms 29 Nov 1330 and buried at the Grey Friars at Shrewsbury. Joan died 19 Oct 1356.