Deen, Fordice, Hallett, Hodges and Van Horn Families - Person Sheet
Deen, Fordice, Hallett, Hodges and Van Horn Families - Person Sheet
NameRoger de Mortimer
Birth25 Apr 1287, Thornbury, Herefordshire, England
Death29 Nov 1330, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England
Occupation1st Earl of March
FatherEdmund Thomas de Mortimer (1252-1304)
MotherMargaret Eleanor de Fiennes (~1269-1334)
Spouses
Birth2 Feb 1285, Ludlow, Shropshire, England
Death19 Oct 1356, Kings Stanley, Lasboro, Gloucestershire, England
Occupation2nd Baroness Geneville
FatherSir Piers de Geneville (1256-1292)
MotherJeanne De Lusignan (~1260-1323)
ChildrenKatherine Mortimer (1314-1369)
Notes for Roger de Mortimer


In Parliament 1306-1326. Earl of March, 4th Lord Wigmore. Knighted with Edward II Plantagenet 1306. Found guilty of many crimes against the King and put in the Tower of London. He escaped at night, but was recaptured and then hanged at Tyburn, then drawn and quartered by order of King Edward III. Son of Sir Edmund and Margaret de Fiennes.

Regarding the original Friar's Church: "Some remains of an early-16th-century building, which may have been the frater on the south side of the cloister, survive on the river bank near Greyfriars Bridge. The building has long been divided into tenements and was apparently re-roofed to provide attic bedrooms. It was originally singlestoried on the north side but to the south, where the ground falls away to the river, it stands on a basement. Substantial parts of both north and south walls, constructed of local red sandstone, remain. Medieval features include a buttress, a doorway, and several window openings; the most complete window has a depressed arch and is of three lights with cusped interlacing tracery. A carved beam, said to survive above the ground floor of one of the cottages, had been covered up by 1969. A timberframed building of the early 16th century, which formed a western continuation of the stone range, was demolished in 1967-9. It incorporated a long, unheated, first-floor room which may have been a dormitory. The rooms mentioned in the 1538 inventory were upper and lower vestry, kitchen, hall, chamber , and frater; but these inventories rarely enumerate all rooms. Part of the precinct walls could still be traced in the adjoining meadow in 1825. " From a History of Shrewsbury: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/
Last Modified 5 Dec 2018Created 28 Sep 2020 Anthony Deen