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Mortimer, Roger de (1374 - 1398)

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Born / Died

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

Parents

Marriages/Other Unions

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

Siblings

Offspring

Primary Title

  • 4th Earl of March

Titles

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

Event Naming Patron

Event Type Date Location Troupe
Performance - 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.