Barons Mortimer of Chirk (1299)
On 6 February 1299 Roger de Mortimer was summoned to parliament. After the third baron, nothing further is known of this title.
- Roger de Mortimer, 1st Baron Mortimer of Chirk. He died in captivity in 1326 having had to surrender his lands in 1322.
- Roger de Mortimer, 2nd Baron Mortimer of Chirk died in 1334 without having obtained Chirk.
- John de Mortimer, 3rd Baron Mortimer of Chirk was an infant at his father's death. He failed to recover Chirk from the Earl of Arundel and surrendered his claim in 1359 to the Earl of Arundel, and subsequently lived in obscurity near Rochester in Kent).
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