Roger Mortimer

Roger Mortimer (or Roger de Mortimer) was the name of several Marcher lords:

  • Roger Mortimer of Wigmore (ca 1150s–1214), married Isabel de Ferriers and became Lord of Maelienydd
  • Roger Mortimer, 1st Baron Mortimer (1231–1282), ally of Henry III of England and occasional ally of his cousin Llywelyn the Last
  • Roger Mortimer de Chirk (c1260-1326) Third son of the 1st Baron of March and a staunch ally of his nephew, the 1st Earl of March
  • Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March (1287–1330), de facto ruler of England for three years, after leading a successful rebellion against Edward II, for which he was hanged
  • Roger Mortimer, 2nd Earl of March (1328–1360), military commander during the Hundred Years' War
  • Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March and 6th Earl of Ulster (1374–1398), heir presumptive to Richard II of England from 1385

Famous quotes containing the words roger and/or mortimer:

    “Draw round beloved and bitter men,
    Draw round and raise a shout;
    The ghost of Roger Casement
    Is beating on the door.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt.”
    —John Mortimer (b. 1923)