Roger de Mortimer of Wigmore
d. 1282
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Roger de Mortimer of Wigmore was one of the greatest of the Marcher lords and the crown's iron man against Simon de Montfort: it was to Mortimer's men that de Montfort fell at Evesham in 1265, and the grisly trophies of that field went to Wigmore. He married Maud de Braose, and died in 1282 with the conquest of Wales, which he had spent his life advancing, all but complete. Through his mother Gwladus Ddu he was himself a grandson of Llywelyn the Great - the Marcher hammer of the Welsh was half a Welsh prince.
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✓ ROGER DE MORTIMER, feudal Lord of WIGMORE (d.1282); m. Maud de Braose; father of Isabel (our line). DOCUMENTED FLOOR here: the elder Mortimers of Wigmore above him are note-only, extendable (a great house - CP MORTIMER would carry this to Wigmore's Domesday founder). Source: Cokayne, Complete Peerage (1st edn), 'Arundel' pp.138-153, photographed and read 6 Aug 2026; contested rungs note-only, not hardened. ||EXTENDED 6 Aug 2026|| No longer a floor: parents Ralph de Mortimer x GWLADUS DDU wired; the line now runs to LLYWELYN THE GREAT and the kings of Gwynedd, looping onto Rhodri Mawr.