Hugh Mortimer (abt. 1186 - 1227)

Born about 1186 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England

Ancestors

Died Nov 1227 at about age 41 in Wigmore Abbey, Herefordshire, , England

Hugh Mortimer was a member of the aristocracy in British Isles.

Biography

Property

Barony of Oakham

"Before 1130 Oakham was held by the Ferrers family as sub-tenants of the Earls of Warwick. Henry son of Walchelin de Ferrers (Ferrières), the Domesday commissioner, had a son Robert who in 1138 was created Earl of Derby and died in 1139; (fn. 96) another son William, who died before 1131, (fn. 97) was possibly the first sub-tenant of Oakham, as his sons seem to have successively inherited it. Henry, the eldest of these sons, paid danegeld in Rutland, probably for Oakham, in 1130 and died before 1156–7. (fn. 98) Hugh, another son, gave Brooke in the soke of Oakham to the canons of Kenilworth with the consent of his brother William. Henry was probably dead at the date of the gift, as Hugh obtained confirmation of the grant from his nephew Walchelin, son of Henry, who was apparently under age and in the custody of [Robert] de Newburgh, his overlord, who also assented to the gift. (fn. 99) Walchelin was pardoned a debt to the Crown in 1161. (fn. 100) He was holding Oakham in 1166 and in the same year answered for the barony held by the service due from 1½ knight's fees, (fn. 101) which he was still holding in 1196. (fn. 102) He accompanied Richard I on the Crusades and visited him while in captivity. He died in 1201, leaving two sons, Henry and Hugh, and two daughters, Isabel and Margaret. (fn. 103) Oakham passed to Henry, the elder son, who forfeited his English lands on the loss of Normandy in 1204. (fn. 104) Hugh, to whom his father had given the manors of Lechlade and Longbridge, died in the same year, possibly before his brother's forfeiture, without issue, and these manors passed to Isabel, his eldest sister, the wife of Roger de Mortimer. (fn. 105) Oakham, however, remained in the king's hands until 1207, when it was granted to Isabel and Mortimer for her life with reversion to the Crown. (fn. 106) After the death of Roger de Mortimer in 1215, Isabel married Peter Fitz Herbert. (fn. 107) By her first husband she had a son* Hugh de Mortimer of Wigmore, who died without issue in 1227. Isabel continued to hold Oakham until her death in 1252, when, in accordance with the terms of the grant from King John, it reverted to the Crown. (fn. 108)" ^[1]

• step-son, son of her cousin Millicent

Sources

1. ↑ "Parishes: Oakham," in A History of the County of Rutland: Volume 2, ed. William Page (London: Victoria County History, 1935), 5-27. British History Online, accessed March 17, 2017, [1].

• Fine Roll C 60/12, 4 HENRY III (1219–1220): 4/19 (23 November 1219); 4/23 (04 December 1219); 4/43 (26 December 1219) [2]
• Fine Roll C 60/15, 5 HENRY III (1220–1221): 5/223 (03 July 1221); 5/224 (03 July 1221) [3]
• Fine Roll C 60/16, 6 HENRY III (1221–1222): 6/132 (16 March 1222) [4]
• Fine Roll C 60/21, 8 HENRY III (1223–1224): 8/398 (03 October 1224) [5]
• Fine Roll C 60/27, 12 HENRY III (1227–1228): 12/31 (23 November 1227); 12/66 (19 January 1228); [6]
• Fine Roll C 60/28, 13 HENRY III (1228–1229): 13/255 (08 July 1229) [7]

Acknowledgements

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