Agnes Mortimer

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Agnes Mortimer (married Agnes Hastings, Countess of Pembroke ) (* between 1315 and 1321; † July 25, 1368 ) was an English noblewoman.

Agnes Mortimer came from the Anglo-Norman Mortimer family . She was a younger daughter of Roger Mortimer of Wigmore and his wife Joan de Geneville . Her father rebelled against King Edward II from 1321 , but had to surrender in January 1322. The king had the Mortimer family arrested, but because Agnes was believed to be a toddler, unlike most of her older siblings, she avoided imprisonment.

Her father was able to overthrow the king at the end of 1326 and was replaced by the new king Edward III. the real ruler of England. On May 29, 1328 Agnes and her sister Beatrice were married in a double wedding in Hereford . It is possible that the wedding was mixed up, because in the summer of 1329 another double wedding of Agnes sisters Joan and Katherine took place in Hereford . Since her sister Beatrice married the high-ranking heir of the Earl of Kent , the wedding of Agnes and Beatrice could not have taken place in 1328, but in June 1329, because her father had only been made Earl of March in 1328 . Agnes was married to Lawrence Hastings , the young heir to Baron Hastings . Her husband was raised to Earl of Pembroke in 1339 , making her the Countess of Pembroke.

With her husband, Agnes had a son:

After the death of her husband in 1348, Agnes married John Hakelut for the second time . Until her death in 1358, she frequently visited the queen mother Isabelle , her father's former lover. Agnes drew up her will on October 10, 1367 and was buried after her death in the church of the Poor Clare Convent on Aldgate in London.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ian Mortimer: The greatest traitor. The Life of Sir Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, Ruler of England, 1327-1330. Pimlico, London 2003, ISBN 0-7126-9715-2 , p. 323.
  2. ^ Andrew Ayton: Hastings, Laurence, twelfth earl of Pembroke (1320-1348). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004
  3. ^ Ian Mortimer: The greatest traitor. The Life of Sir Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, Ruler of England, 1327-1330. Pimlico, London 2003, ISBN 0-7126-9715-2 , p. 206.
  4. ↑ Alison Weir: Isabella. She-Wolf of France, Queen of England . London, Pimlico 2006, ISBN 0-7126-4194-7 , p. 325.
  5. ↑ Alison Weir: Isabella. She-Wolf of France, Queen of England . London, Pimlico 2006, ISBN 0-7126-4194-7 , p. 371.
  6. ^ Ian Mortimer: The greatest traitor. The Life of Sir Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, Ruler of England, 1327-1330. Pimlico, London 2003, ISBN 0-7126-9715-2 , p. 323.
personal data
SURNAME Mortimer, Agnes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hastings, Agnes, Countess of Pembroke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English nobles
DATE OF BIRTH between 1315 and 1321
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 1368