Robert de Mortimer

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1252, of Norton, Northamptonshire, England

Robert married Joyce la Zouche before 1273. Joyce (daughter of William la Zouche and Maud de Howbridge) died before 13 Mar 1290; was buried on 13 Mar 1290. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. William la Zouche was born in of Ashby de la Zouche, Leicestershire, England; died on 28 Feb 1337; was buried in Tewkesbury Abbey, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England.
2. Hugh de Mortimer was born about 1275 in of Richard's Castle, Herefordshire, England; died before 5 Aug 1304.

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• Alternate death: Bef 28 Nov 1274

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"In 1267 his men and those of Roger de Mortimer adhered (redidderunt se) to Llewelyn. He had protection in February 1262/3 on going to the Welsh wars; and in the autumn of 1264 he surrendered Richard's Castle to Montfort. Like the other Lords Marchers, he appears to have taken the King's side in 1264 and 1265, and was consequently rewarded. On 9 August 1265, just after the battle of Evesham, he received custody of the manor and forest of Feckenham, co. Worcester; in November 1266 a charter for a market and fair at Burford and free warren at Wichbold; and at about the same time a charter to make Burford a free borough. In 1272 respite of pleas was allowed him in co. Hereford while he came to the King's Parliament at Westminster." [Complete Peerage]

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• Alternate death: Bef 5 Jul 1219

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"Robert de Mortimer was son of Robert de Mortimer of Essex. It was either the father or the son after his father's death, the date of which is not known, who took part in the third Crusade, perhaps in personal attendance on Richard I. From 1200 onwards the son appears to have been frequently at court In 1203 he was excused scutage on Woodham and Amberden, probably in consideration of personal service; and in May 1206 had a grant of land in East Ham, Essex. From the time of his marriage (in 1210), by which he acquired the barony of Burford and Richard's Castle, he was active in the duties of a Lord Marcher, and in that year was in the King's service in Ireland. In 1213 he made an offer to serve the King with 10 knights, of whom he himself should be one, if the King would acquit him of the fine for having his wife. The same year he was one of the commissioners to inquire in Herefordshire as to the losses sustained by the clergy owing to the King's quarrel with the Church. In 1214 and 1215 he was again abroad with the King, to whom he remained loyal throughout the differences with the barons. About this time he and his wife were in some way disturbed in possession of her inheritance. He was at Hereford with King John in July 1216. He took part in the Council called at Bristol within a month of that King's death, and was active in assisting the return of the 'perverse' to their allegiance in the early days of Henry III. The last order issued to him, of which there is record, was on 26 January 1218/9, when he was required to assist the sheriff of Hereford in taking the castles of Grosmont, &c., from Reynold de Braose. He was still living in Easter term 1219, when he pledged himself to discharge the scutage due on Richard's Castle." [Complete Peerage]

Robert married Margaret de Say before Jun 1211. Margaret (daughter of Hugh de Say and Mabel Marmion) was born in of Richard's Castle, Herefordshire, England; died before 29 Sep 1242. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Complete Peerage IX:258, note (j), on this Robert de Mortimer: "Robert the father on his marriage received Little Woodham (Woodham Mortimer) in Essex from Henry II by the service of 1/2 fee and probably Amberden (in Debden) as another 1/2 fee. In 1190/1 he, or his son, was assessed to the scutage of Wales for one knight's fee of the Honour of Peverel of London in Essex. Woodham and Amberden were held by Robert the son in 1212 as one fee. The father's marriage presumably took place in or before 1168, when he was pardoned a debt in the account of the sheriff of Essex. It is not easy to distinguish this Robert from his son Robert at a time when either might have been the tenant of Woodham, or to distinguish them from their namesake and contemporary Robert de Mortimer of Attleborough. [...] There seems to have been as close a connection between the Mortimers of Attleborough, and their said overlords as between Robert of Essex and the King. It would appear likely that it was Robert of Essex, the protege of Henry II, who witnessed at Valoignes the later version of the treaty of Falaise, some time in the early months of 1174, as being in the train of King Henry, while William de Mortimer of Attleborough was one of the hostages under that treaty for William the Lion -- Earl of Huntingdon until his deafeat at Alnwick in July 1174; also that it was Robert of Essex who, at Le Mans, witnessed a charter of Henry II, dated 1175-81 or 1177. That there was a close connection between the families of Attleborough and Richard's Castle is suggested by heraldic evidence; by the recurrance in both families of the names Robert and William (Hugh probably came in at Richard's Castle from Say); and by the few details that are known about a shadowy Pernel de Mortimer, who seems to have belonged to both families. Of her it is known that before 1199 (probably before May 1194) she held land in Dengey Hundred, in which are Woodham Mortimer and Amberden, which later was given to Tiltey Abbey; that in July 1199, as a widow, she was duing R. del Ech for dower in Cambe (where Mortimers of Attleborough had large holdings); and in 1203 levied a fine with William de Buckenham as to the advowson of Buckenham and land there -- a Mortimer of Attleborough manor."

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• Alternate death: Abt 1196
• Alternate death: Bef 29 Sep 1197

Notes:

"He was keeper of Norton Castle, in what is now co. Radnor, and fought under Richard I in Normandy in 1194. In 1195 he was in charge of the castle of Bleddfa in the March, now co. Radnor. In 1196 he and Roger de Mortimer of Wigmore were defeated near Radnor by the Welsh prince Rhys. He married Mabel, daughter of Robert Marmion. He was assessed to the third scutage of the army in Normandy in 1196, and seems to have been living in the early part of 1197, but d. s.p.m., before Michaelmas that year." [Complete Peerage]

Hugh married Mabel Marmion. Mabel (daughter of Robert Marmion and Maud de Beauchamp) died after 1199. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Bef 29 Sep 1210