Baron Mortimer - Feudal Lords of Wigmore

Feudal Lords of Wigmore

  • Roger de Mortemer had Mortemer Castle in Normandy
  • Ralph or Ranulph de Mortimer had Wigmore at the time of Domesday Book, and died in the 1100s.
  • Hugh de Mortimer I probably died c.1149 (but the genealogy is not quite certain).
  • Roger de Mortimer I, probably son of Hugh I, died 1153
  • Hugh de Mortimer II, probably brother of Roger I, died c. 1181.
  • Roger Mortimer II, died 1214, son of Hugh II
  • Hugh Mortimer III, died 1127, son of Roger II
  • Ralph Mortimer II, died 1246, brother of Hugh III
  • Roger de Mortimer III, became 1st Baron Mortimer

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