Matilda (Braose) de Mortimer (abt. 1226 - 1301)

Born about 1226 in Totnes, Devon, England

Ancestors

Wife of Roger (Mortimer) de Mortimer — married 1247 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England

Descendants

Died 16 Mar 1301 at about age 75 in Wigmore Castle, Herefordshire, England [uncertain]

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Biography

Father Sir William de Brewes, 6th Baron de Brewes, Lord Brecknock, Abergavenny b. c 1204, d. 2 May 1230

Mother Eva de Marshal b. c 1206, d. b 1246

Maud de Brewes was born circa 1226 at of Totnes, Devonshire, England.^[1] She married Sir Roger de Mortimer, 6th Lord Wigmore, Constable of clun & Herford Castles, son of Ralph de Mortimer, Baron Wigmore, Constable of Clun Castle and Gladys 'the Black', Princess of Wales, circa 1247. They had 7 sons (Ralph; Sir Edmund; Sir Roger; Sir William; Sir Geoffrey; Llywelyn; & Hugh) and 2 daughters (Margaret, wife of Sir Robert de Vere, 6th Earl of Oxford; & Isabel, wife of John FitzAlan, of Ralph d'Arderne, & of Robert de Hastang).^[2] Maud de Brewes died on 16 March 1301.^[3]

On 2 Jun 1252, partition of the Marshal's estates was made among the three coheirs: Mortimer, Cauntelo and Bohun. Maud was living in Ireland in Jan 1279/80.^[4]

Family

• Sir Roger de Mortimer, 6th Lord Wigmore, Constable of clun & Herford Castles b. c 1231, d. 27 Oct 1282

Children ^[5][6]

• Sir Ralph Mortimer, Sheriff if Shropshire & Staffordshire d. 1275
• Geoffrey Mortimer
• Sir William de Mortimer d. c 30 Jun 1297
• Roger Mortimer d. 1336
• Isabel de Mortimer b. c 1248, d. b 1 Apr 1292
• Sir Edmund Mortimer, 1st Lord Mortimer b. c 1252, d. 17 Jul 1304
• Margaret de Mortimer b. bt 11 Mar 1256 - 31 Mar 1261, d. c 1297
• Isolde de Mortimer b. c 1260, d. c 4 Aug 1338

Sources

1. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 165-166.
2. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 254.
3. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 521.
4. ↑ Doubleday, H.A. and Lord Howard de Walden, ed., The Complete Peerage or A History of the House of Lords and All Its Members From The Earliest Times, London: The St Catherine Press, 1936. Accessed online at LDS, Vol. IX, page 280-281.
5. ↑ Burke's Dormant & Extinct Peerages, p. 384-385.
6. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 670.

See also:

• Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry. 2013, Vol. I, page 557.