MARCH. 243 Earldom. /, Roger (Mortimer), Lord Mortimer de Wigmore, I 1328 iUK ' ' 1- °^ ' | 1' 1U1111 I*M> StOBmpHi (so er. by writ 23 June 1325), ^ ' was b. about 29 April 1286 ; stir, his father (who was slaiu at Builth, lion co. Brecon), in 1303 ; knighted, 22 May 1306; Bearer of the vest- 1 ments at the Coronation of Edward II., 25 Feb. 1308 ; was in the Scotch wars; Ch. Gov. of Ireland, 1310-19 ; and became notorious as the paramour of Isabel, the Queen Consort, to whose Household in 1325 he was Steward. He was er., 9 Nov. 132S,(") EARL OF MARCH [•'Oomttm.de Marchid ITVirc "( h )] with £10 annual lent issuing out of the counties of Salop ami, Stafford and, together with the Queen Dowager, had the chief control of the Kingdom. He m. before 1308, Joan, da. and h. of Peter tit. Genevill, of Trim, iu Ireland. He was taken prisoner at Nottingham, convicted of treason, and was hung at Soiithfield in Loudon 26 or 29 Nov. 1330, when, having been attainted, all his honours were forfeited. He WAS Our. at Grey Friars but afterwards removed to Wigmore. His widow d. 1356. II. 1351. :?. Roger (Mortimer), Lord Mortimer de Wigmore, grandson of the above, being s. and h. of his eldest sou, Edmund, Lonn MORTIMER (so er. by writ 20 Nov. 1331), by Elizabeth, 3d da. and coheir of Bartholomew (Badlesmehk). Lord Badlesmere, was 6. about 1327 ; sue. his father in 1331 ; was iu the war with France and was knighted by the Black Prince, 13 July 1341), having already been elected, 23 April 1311. K.G., as one of the Founders of that Order.( c ) He was sum. to Pari, as a Baron from 20 Nov. (1348). 22 Ed. III., to 15 March (1888/4}, 28 Ed. III., by writs sometime addressed " Rogero de .Vortuomari " [■inly] and sometimes (24, 25, aixl 27 Ed. III.), with the addition of the words " de Wigmare." The attainder of his grandfather almvenamed having been reversed in the Pari, of 27 Ed. III. 'about 26 April 13541, he thus became EAHL OF MARCH, and, as such, was sum. to' Pari. 20 Sep. (1355), 29 Ed. III. He was Warden of the Cinque Torts, 1355 ; Constable of the army in Fi ance, 1359. He m. Philippa, da. of William (Montactte), 1st Earl of Salisbury, by Catherine, da. of William (Grandison), Lord Grandison. He d. 20 Feb. 1359/60, at Romera, iu Burgundy, while in com- mand of the forces there, and was bur. at Wigmore. III. 13G0. 3. Edmund (Mortimer), Earl of March, kc, 2d but only surv. a. and h., b. 1 Feb. 1351, and MM. his father, at his age of nine, iu Feb. 1360. Having m. (shortly after her father's death, 17 Oct. 136S), the Lady Philippa Plantacienet,( j ) suo jure Countess of Ulster [I.],(°) only child of {') In C'ourthope's "Observations on dignities," sub " Earldoms,'* after stating that from the time of Richard I. " the girding on of the sword [of the county] became the common form of investiture for an Earl whether Palatine or otherwise," it is added that for a long time " the titles of these Earldoms continued to be derived from counties, but, when in 1328, Roger Mortimer was girded with a sword, according to custom, aud had given to him the title of Earl of March (a name derived neither from county nor city) we may consider that no vestige than remained of the significant meaning that had once attached to the ceremony of creating Earls" [Mr. C. adding in MS.] " altho' investiture was still thought necessary for the perfecting the dignity. "] (") This ia the form given in Baker's [contemporary] chronicle, where he is given as the second of three Earls made in the Pari, of Salisbury, 16 to 31 Oct. 132S, the first of whom was the King's brother, er. Earl of Cornwall, while the third was the " Pincema Hiberniaj," er. Earl of Ormonde. ( c ) See vol. i, p. 276, note " a," sub " Beauchamp," for a list of these Founders. ('t) Her issue became, on the death of King Richard II. (14 Feb. 1399/100), the heirs of line to the Crown, iu which right her great-great-grandson, King Edward IV. (the grandson of her grandaughter, Lady Anne Mortimer, Countess of Cambridge), ascended the Throne in 1460. (o) Of " the six Irish Earldoms er. before 1330 " the first was Ulster, er. (1205-06), 7 John, with a rem. to heirs general which passed accordingly "thro' females from Lacy to De Burgh, from De Burgh to Plantagenet, *c" See [" Hit Earldoms of Oi-mond-' [I.], by J. H. Bound, in Fosters '•Coll. Oc-.," p. 84.] See vol. vi, sub " Ormond," as to these six Earldoms.
