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Hace 4 días · The family produced some colourful characters, one of its earliest recorded members is Ranulph de Mortimer, Seigneur of St. Victor-en-Caux in Normandy, who was granted lands in in Herefordshire and Shropshire before 1086 by William the Conqueror. Mortimer rose in rebellion against the Conqueror's successor William II 'Rufus' in 1088.
The Mortimer claims were later inherited by the House of York, which claimed the throne upon the Earl of March Edward IV's victory in the Battle of Towton, 1461. Members of the noble Mortimer family included: Ranulph de Mortimer, Lord of Wigmore, Herefordshire and Seigneur of St Victor-en-Caux, Seine-Maritime, Normandy
Mortimer Family, Anglo-Norman family, afterward earls of March and Ulster, that wielded great power on the Welsh marches, attained political eminence in the 13th and 14th centuries, and in the 15th possessed a claim to the English throne. Among the most notable members of the family were Roger
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Home » Medieval Mortimers » Chapter 1. Mortimer Origins. The Mortimer surname’s origins date back a thousand years to eleventh century Normandy. By this time, the village of Mortemer-sur-Eaulne had developed in the Pays de Bray region of Normandy, between the historic cities of Rouen and Amiens.
Family: Mortimer: Spouse: Anne Stafford (m. 1415) Father: Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March: Mother: Eleanor Holland
- Anne Stafford (m. 1415)
- Eleanor Holland
‘Late’ version arms of the Mortimer family of Wigmore, with blue in the lower triangles, from the 15th-century cloisters of Canterbury Cathedral Most people who have looked at the origins of the Mortimer family know three things about the founder, Roger de Mortemer. The first is that he was a kinsman of William the Conqueror, duke of Normandy.
The medieval Mortimer family tree sums up the generations of medieval Mortimers and related families. The principal branch of the family tree were the Mortimers of Wigmore, who became Barons Mortimer then Earls of March.
