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- Mortimer, Roger, 1st earl of March (c. 1287–1330). A lord of the Welsh march, with major interests in Ireland, Roger Mortimer was one of the rebels who surrendered to Edward II in 1321. He made a dramatic escape from the Tower of London in 1324, and went into exile in Paris; it is probably there that he became Queen Isabella's lover.
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Roger Mortimer, 3rd Baron Mortimer of Wigmore, 1st Earl of March (25 April 1287 – 29 November 1330), was an English nobleman and powerful Marcher Lord who gained many estates in the Welsh Marches and Ireland following his advantageous marriage to the wealthy heiress Joan de Geneville, 2nd Baroness Geneville.
Roger Mortimer, 1st earl of March (born 1287?—died Nov. 29, 1330, Tyburn, near London, Eng.) was the lover of the English king Edward II’s queen, Isabella of France, with whom he contrived Edward’s deposition and murder (1327). For three years thereafter he was the virtual king of England during the minority of Edward III.
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Roger de Mortimer, 1st Earl of March (April 25, 1287 – November 29, 1330), an English nobleman, was for three years de facto ruler of England, after leading a successful rebellion against Edward II. Roger was knighted in 1306, having succeeded his father as 3rd Baron Mortimer in 1304.
Roger Mortimer 1st Earl of March - Mortimer History Society. Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March For three years "Ruler" of England Executed in 1330 In this series of brief articles about the Mortimers of Wigmore, we now come to the most powerful and colourful member of this illustrious family.
ROGER MORTIMER, EARL OF MARCH, was a ward of Piers Gaveston, and held many important offices in the reign of Edward II, being appointed Lieutenant of Ireland in 1317. He sided with Lancaster in his opposition to the king, was taken prisoner in 1322, and condemned to perpetual captivity.
Roger Mortimer is one of the most enigmatic and influential figures in the history of the medieval British Isles. Lord of Wigmore on the Welsh marches, his career witnessed both loyal service to the person of the king and outright rebellion against it, even marshalling the resistance that precipitated the unprecedented deposition of an anointed ...
Mortimer, Roger (1287–1330), lord of Wigmore and 1st earl of March , justiciar of Ireland, was son of Edmund Mortimer (d. 1304) and his wife Margaret, daughter of Sir William Fienes, Lord Fienes.
