Mortimer, Roger de (1374 - 1398)

Biographical Overview

Parents

Titles - 3
Properties - 14
Total events naming patron - 1
Troupes - 1
Bibliographic Sources - 2
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Born / Died

Birth Date: 1374-04-11
Death Date: 1398-07-20

Siblings

Female

Mortimer, Elizabeth de (1370/71 - 1417)
Mortimer, Philippa (1375 - 1401)

Male

Mortimer, Edmund de (1376 - 1408/9)

Marriages/Other Unions

  1. Holland, Eleanor ( - 1405)
    Type: marriage
    Union began: ca. 1388
    Union ended: n.d.

Offspring

From Holland, Eleanor ( - 1405)

  1. Male offspring: Mortimer, Edmund de (1391 - 1425) (patron)
  2. Female offspring: Mortimer, Anne (1388 - 1411)
  3. Female offspring: Mortimer, Eleanor (d. 1413)
  4. Male offspring: Mortimer, Roger (1393 - 1413)

Primary Title

4th Earl of March

Titles

  • Baron Mortimer of Wigmore
    Assumed 1381-12-27
    Vacated 1398-07-20
  • 7th Earl of Ulster
    Assumed 1381-12-27
    Vacated 1398-07-20
  • 4th Earl of March
    Assumed 1381-12-27
    Vacated 1398-07-20

Details of Offices

Began Ended Notes
Constable, Gloucestershire 1381-12-27 1398-07-20 Hereditary office
Constable, Ireland 1381-12-27 1398-07-20 Hereditary office
Lieut, Ireland 1381/2-1-24 1383
Lieut, Ireland 1392-7-23 n.d.
Ambassador to Scotland, England 1393/4-2-16 1394-03-30
Lieut, Ireland 1396-4-25 1397-09-29
Lieut, Ireland 1397-4-24 1398-07-20

Details of Properties

Residence

  • Wigmore, Herefordshire

Lands

  • Buckinghamshire
  • Cambridgeshire
  • Devon
  • Dorset
  • Essex
  • Hampshire
  • Kent
  • Norfolk
  • Northamptonshire
  • Somerset
  • Suffolk
  • Sussex
  • Worcestershire

Events Naming Patron

Event Date Location Troupe
Performance 1393-1394 Boothall, Gloucester , Gloucestershire Earl of March's Minstrel/s

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name Patron Troupe Type # of events
Earl of March's Minstrel/s Mortimer, Roger de (1374 - 1398) Entertainers/Minstrels 1

Bibliographic Sources

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The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom. 1887–98 (8 vols); 1910–59 (13 vols). 6 vols. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1982.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 01/05/2005 (http://www.oxforddnb.com)