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  2. Roger Mortimer, 1st Baron Mortimer of Chirk - Wikipedia

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    Mortimer fought at the Battle of Falkirk (1298), when William Wallace was finally defeated. On 6 February, he was created Lord of Chirk. [8] The Mortimers supported the King's policy in Scotland and on the Marches. Chirk pledged allegiance to Edward II, and was with the young King when he went to negotiate his marriage with Isabella of France ...

  3. Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March - Wikipedia

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    Arms of Mortimer: Barry or and azure, on a chief of the first two pallets between two gyrons of the second over all an inescutcheon argent. Roger Mortimer, 3rd Baron Mortimer of Wigmore, 1st Earl of March (25 April 1287 – 29 November 1330), was an English nobleman and powerful marcher lord who gained many estates in the Welsh Marches and Ireland following his advantageous marriage to the ...

  4. Mortimer - Wikipedia

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    Arms of Mortimer (Mortimer of Wigmore): Barry or and azure, on a chief of the first two pallets between two base esquires of the second over all an inescutcheon argent In the Middle Ages, the Mortimers became a powerful dynasty of Marcher Lords in the Welsh Marches, first as barons of Wigmore Castle, Herefordshire and later as Earl of March from 1328 to 1425.

  5. Roger Mortimer, 1st Baron Mortimer of Wigmore - Wikipedia

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    They were both grandsons of Llywelyn ab Iorwerth. Mortimer fought for the King against the rebel Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, and almost lost his life in 1264 at the Battle of Lewes fighting Montfort's men. In 1265 Mortimer's wife, Maud de Braose helped rescue Prince Edward; and Mortimer and the Prince made an alliance against de ...

  6. John Jay Mortimer - Wikipedia

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    Mortimer grew up at Keewaydin in Tuxedo Park. [17] The family home was designed by Stanford White and once belonged to Pierre Lorillard III. His family, along with the Lorillards, were the founding families of Tuxedo Park. [18] His grandmother, the widow of Henry Morgan Tilford, was known as "one of the reigning dowagers of Tuxedo Park" for ...

  7. Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March - Wikipedia

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    Arms of Mortimer: Barry or and azure, on a chief of the first two pallets between two base esquires of the second over all an inescutcheon argent Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, 7th Earl of Ulster (6 November 1391 – 18 January 1425), was an English nobleman and a potential claimant to the throne of England.

  8. Baron Mortimer - Wikipedia

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    The Mortimers of Richard's Castle were descended from the Mortimers of Attleborough, who had separated from the Wigmore family long before. [ 1 ] Simon de Mortimer was summoned to parliament on 26 August 1296, but nothing more is known of that title.

  9. Battle of Mortimer's Cross - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Mortimer's Cross was fought on 2 February 1461 near Kingsland, Herefordshire (between Leominster and Leintwardine, by the River Lugg), not far from the Welsh border. [2] It was a major battle of the Wars of the Roses .