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• Name: Roger De MORTIMER
• Sex: M
• Birth: Mortimer, Cant Neufchatel-En-Bray, Seine-Maritime ^b
• Death: Before 1086 ^d


Parents:

• Father:
  
• Rodulf De Warrene Death: Before 1055
Mother:

• Beatrice De VASCOEUIL Death: Abt 1055

Family:
Marriage:

• Hawise .^m1
  
• Hawise

Children:

1. Ralph De MORTIMER, Baron Of Wigmore Birth: Mortemer, Cant Neufchatel-En-Bray, Seine-Maritime Death: Abt 1104 in Abbey Of St Victor-En-Caux

Bibliography

Sources for birth and parent Information

place:

[Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p601],

parents:

[Ref: Farmerie Gunnor, Keats-Rohan RobertTorigny p24]

Sources with Inaccurate birth and parent Information

parents:

Hugh Bishop of Coutances (#14647) & dau (#10128) of unknown Danish chieftain and sister of Gunnor [Ref: DNB v39p130]

Sources for death Information

date:

abt 1086 [Ref: Holloway WENTWORTH p19]

before 1086 [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p602]

living 1078 dead in 1086 [Ref: CP IX p267]

shortly before 1086 [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p335]

Sources with Information about marriage to Hawise

names:

[Ref: Keats-Rohan RobertTorigny p23],

child:

[Ref: CP IX p267, DNB v39p130, Holloway WENTWORTH p19, Keats-Rohan DD p602, White Gunnor p128]

Research Notes:
Lord of Wigmore [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p335]

Seigneur of Mortimer-sur-Eaulne, in Normandy [Ref: CP IX p266, Holloway WENTWORTH p19]

occurs as a witness to a charter for Saint Wandrille sometime between 1040 and 1053, as Roger fitz Ralph de Warenne [Ref: Keats-Rohan RobertTorigny p22]

1054: lost some of his land to his kinsman William de Warenne following the battle of Mortermer, at which he had assisted the escape of a French prisoner, Ralph count of Montdidier, to whom he had done homage [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p601]

founded the abbey of Saint-Victor-en-Caux [Ref: CP IX p266]

called "Roger filius episcopi." Brother Ralph, also called "filius episcopi" was founder of the house of Warenne [Ref: DNB v39p130]

identified by Stapleton as identical with Roldulf's brother Roger "filius episcopi" and claimed a charter from the cartulary of the Holy Trinity at Rouen proved that Hugh, Bishop of Coutances, was "father of Ralph de Warren and Roger de Mortimer." But nothing in this charter proves the identify of Roger son of the Bishop being Roger de Mortimer [Ref: White Gunnor p128]

called a son of a niece of Gunnor by Robert de Torigny, but he was deeply confused on this point. In another passage called a son of Walter de St Martin [Ref: Keats-Rohan RobertTorigny p21]

first to assume the name of Mortimer, which was taken from the village and castle of Mortemer-en-Brai (mortuum mare) in the Pays de Caux, situated at the source of the little river Eaulne [Ref: DNB v39p130]

1054: win the victory of Mortemer, fought under the walls of his castle, against the troops of Henry I, King of the French. But Roger gave offence to Duke William by releasing one of his captives, and was accordingly deprived of his castle of Mortemer, which was trasferred to his nephew, William de Warenne, son of his brother Ralph (afterward first Earl of Surrey) [Ref: DNB v39p130]

1054: punished for what Orderic represents as an honourable treason by the loss of some of his lands, though most were susequently restored to him. Those that were not were centered on Bellencombe, which is 13 miles south of the place from which the Warenne family was named [Ref: Keats-Rohan RobertTorigny p23]

1054: lands lost were regranted to his 'consanguieus' William de Warenne [Ref: Keats-Rohan RobertTorigny p23]

transferred the family chief seat to Sait-Victor-en-Caux [Ref: DNB v39p130]

1074: priory of Caux, a cell of Saint-Ouen at Rouen, was erected into an abbey [Ref: DNB v39p130]

probably too old to have been present at Hastings, but some of his sons, perhaps Hugh or possibly Ralph appeared on his behalf [Ref: DNB v39p130]

after abt 1075: acquired lands centered upon Wigmore forfeited by Roger earl of Hereford [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p602]



Pedigree of Roger De MORTIMER
 /-----Rodulf De Warrene
Roger De MORTIMER
|         /-----Tesselin Vicomte Of Rouen
 \-----Beatrice De VASCOEUIL



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