Roger Mortimer (knight)

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Sir Roger Mortimer (* 1305 or 1306; † between September 3, 1327 and August 27, 1328 ) was an English knight.

Roger Mortimer came from the Anglo-Norman Mortimer family . He was the second son of Roger Mortimer of Wigmore and his wife Joan de Geneville . His father was an important Marcher Lord who was anxious to provide adequate care for his younger sons. The younger Roger was married in 1321 to Joan Butler , daughter of the Anglo-Irish nobleman Edmund Butler, Earl of Carrick .

When Roger's father took part in the rebellion of the Marcher Lords against the royal favorite Hugh le Despenser and thus lost the favor of King Edward II , his father and mother transferred their Irish possessions to Roger. After his father had to surrender to the king in January 1322, Roger and his older brother Edmund were arrested and imprisoned at Windsor Castle . When his father landed with an army in England in September 1326 to overthrow the rule of Edward II, Roger, Edmund and their younger brother John were moved to the Tower of London on October 1st . After the reign of Edward II in London collapsed a little later, the Tower was handed over to the insurgents on October 16 and the brothers were released.

Roger, Edmund and their brother Geoffrey was born on the occasion of the coronation of Edward III. Knighted by Henry of Lancaster on February 1, 1327 . Roger's wife had since died childless. His father, who in the meantime de facto took over the reign for the minor Edward III. planned to marry him to Marie de Saint-Pol , the young widow of the Earl of Pembroke . On September 3, 1327, the king approved the marriage, but Roger apparently died a little later, before he had married Marie. On August 27, 1328, his father gave the Irish possessions to Roger's younger brother John, who died shortly afterwards in a tournament in Shrewsbury .

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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. 102
  2. ^ 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. 153
  3. ↑ Seymour Phillips: Edward II . New Haven, Yale University Press 2010. ISBN 978-0-300-15657-7 , p. 507
  4. ^ WM Ormrod: Edward III . Yale University Press, New Haven 2011, ISBN 978-0-300-11910-7 , p. 55
  5. ^ 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. 201
  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. 320
  7. ^ 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. 321
personal data
SURNAME Mortimer, Roger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mortimer, Sir Roger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English knight
DATE OF BIRTH 1305 or 1306
DATE OF DEATH before August 27, 1328