The Greatest Traitor: The Life of Sir Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March (62 page)

10 and 11.
Agnes and Beatrice
. Agnes is said in the
Complete Peerage
to have been the third daughter, but there seems to be no sound evidence for this. Both she and Beatrice were said by Murimuth to have been married in late May or early June 1328 in the presence of Roger, Isabella and the king at Hereford. However, it is unlikely that they were married to two such eminent heirs before Roger himself was an earl. It has been suggested by Doherty in his thesis on Isabella (p. 285) that the double wedding of Agnes to Laurence de Hastings, Earl of Pembroke, and Beatrice to Edward, son and heir of Thomas of Brotherton, Earl of Norfolk, took place at Hereford in the summer of 1329, and, as he points out, the privy seal was indeed at Hereford from 8 to 13 September 1329. This was just after a royal visit to Wigmore, to which the court had gone from Gloucester. According to his theory, the court accompanied Roger to Wigmore on 5–7 September 1329 to fetch his two brides, and to take them to Hereford for the wedding. This is unlikely. Avesbury suggests the Round Table tournament which almost certainly accompanied their nuptials was at Wigmore, and this is a more likely venue. Agnes bore her only surviving son in August 1347, but lost her husband the following year, and was married secondly to John Hakelut. Her will is dated 10 October 1367 and she died 25 July 1368, being buried in London at the Minoresses without Aldgate (since destroyed). Beatrice married Thomas, Lord Braose, after her first husband’s death, in or before 1334. Her eldest surviving son was by her second marriage, born in 1339, and she died in 1383, the last surviving of Roger’s children. It is likely that Agnes and Beatrice were born some time in the period 1315–21.

12.
Blanche
. She is presumed to be the youngest of the Mortimer daughters, but as with Catherine, Agnes and Beatrice, she could have been born
at any point between 1314 and 1322. The name was a de Geneville family name, Blanche being the name of one of Joan’s sisters. Blanche Mortimer married Piers de Grandison before 10 June 1320 and died in 1347. Her husband must have been born between 1286 and 1291, about the same age as Roger, and because the de Grandisons were not particularly powerful, being minor Herefordshire lords by comparison with the Mortimers, it is possible that she was married before Roger’s fall from grace in 1321. However she bore no children, although her husband was clearly of age. The earliest certain date is that she was married before 10 June 1330, before which they had received the manor of Much Marcle from Margaret Mortimer, Roger’s mother. If this was a dowry, it is likely that they were married not long before this. We have no evidence as to when Blanche was born; it was probably after 1315 as she was not arrested in 1322, although de Grandison was a contrariant. She died in 1347, and was buried in the church at Much Marcle, Herefordshire, where her tomb with its effigy is still extant.

GENEALOGICAL TABLES

1.
The Mortimer family,
c
. 1200–1330, showing Roger’s connections with the royal family, the Princes of Wales, and the Earls of Arundel

2.
The Earls of Pembroke and the Counts of La Marche, showing Roger’s connections with Robert Bruce and the Earls of Pembroke and Gloucester, and his wife’s connections with the royal family, the Earls of Pembroke and Warwick and the Counts of La Marche

3.
The de Fiennes family, showing Roger’s connections with the royal family, the Counts of Hainault and the Earls of Hereford through his mother

4.
The de Braose and de Lacy families, showing Roger’s and his wife’s connections with these families and the Earls of Warwick and the de Verdon family

5.
The English royal family

6.
The French royal family

Table 1:THE MORTIMER FAMILY,
c
. 1200–1330
showing Roger’s connections with the royal family, the Princes of Wales, and the Earls of Arundel

Table 2: THE EARLS OF PEMBROKE AND THE COUNTS OF LA MARCHE
showing Roger’s connections with Robert Bruce and the Earls of Pembroke and Gloucester
and his wife’s connections with the royal family, the Earls of Pembroke and Warwick and the Counts of La Marche

Table 3: THE DE FIENNES FAMILY
showing Roger’s connections with the royal family, the Counts of Hainault and the Earls of Hereford through his mother

Table 4: THE DE BRAOSE AND DE LACY FAMILIES
showing Roger’s and his wife’s connections with these families and the Earls of Warwick and the de Verdon family.
(N.B. Walter and Hugh de Lacy of Rathwire, Roger’s tenants and enemies in 1315–7, were probably
descended from Robert, a younger brother of Hugh de Lacy, the lord of Meath, who died in 1186)

Table 5: THE ENGLISH ROYAL FAMILY

Table 6: THE FRENCH ROYAL FAMILY

Index

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Aberconway:
see
Conway

Aberdeenshire, Scotland: 27

Abergavenny, Wales: 157, 187, 312

Abingdon, Berkshire: 206

Aconbury Priory, Herefordshire: 13, 172, 211

Acqui, Bishop of: 261

Acton, Middlesex: 154

Adam of Northampton (d. 1346), Bishop of Ferns (1312): 87, 279 (n. 31)

Adam of Orleton (d. 1345), Bishop of Hereford (1317), Bishop of Worcester (1327), Treasurer (1327): 98

– early career and relations with Roger: 93–94

– participation in 1321 rebellion: 105

– role in Roger’s escape: 282 (n. 16)

– persecuted by Edward and Despenser: 122, 130, 134–135, 137

– role in facilitating invasion: 153, 155, 161

– role in deposition and abdication of Edward II: 166–167, 169

– at coronation: 171

– position on regency council: 288 (n. 21)

– supposed role in Berkeley Castle plot: 192

– candidature for See of Worcester: 200

– appointed Treasurer: 202

Adforton, William de: 44

Agen, France: 137–138

Airmyn, Richard, Keeper of the Privy Seal (1327–28): 203

Albret, Amanieu d’: 53

Aldenham, Francis (d. 1322): 125

Alspaye, Gerard d’: 2, 129–130, 201, 282 (n. 16)

Amiens, France: 221

Anglesey, Wales: 187, 197, 203

Annales Paulini
: 188–189, 194, 235, 246

Annaly, Ireland: 45

Anonimalle Chronicle
: 189, 235

Antwerp, Belgium: 260–263, 303 (n. 50)

Aquitaine, France, Duchy of (see also Gascony): 23, 34

Ardee, Ireland: 49, 68

Ardingel, James d’, of Florence: 87

Ardrossan, Fergus d’: 67

Ardscull, Battle of (1316): 81

Argentein, Giles d’ (d. 1314), knight: 61–64, 272 (n. 13), 275 (n. 11)

Argyle, King of: 93

Arlegh, Staffordshire: 79

Armour, descriptions of: 117–118, 151, 208–209

Arthurian legend: 9–10, 16, 22, 43, 226, 267, 297 (n. 20), 298 (n. 25)

Arundel, Earl of:
see
FitzAlan, Edmund

Ashburnham, Bartholomew (d. 1322): 125

Ashby de la Zouche, Leics: 79