Baron Mortimer

Several members of the Mortimer family were summoned to Parliament during the reign of Edward I, thereby making them hereditary barons in the Peerage of England. The most important family with this surname were the lords of Wigmore, a marcher lordship on the borders of Herefordshire and Shropshire with Wales, living at Wigmore Castle. The second Baron Mortimer of Wigmore was created Earl of March.

The others probably all belonged to juvenile branches of that family.

Contents

Feudal lords of Wigmore

Baron Mortimer of Wigmore

Baron Mortimer (1296)

Barons Mortimer of Chirk (1299)

On 6 February 1299 Roger de Mortimer was summoned to parliament. After the third baron, nothing further is known of this title.

References

  1. ^ Hopkinson and Speight, 135-40.
  2. ^ Hopkinson and Speight, 129-32.