Hugh (Mortimer) de Mortimer (abt. 1233 - abt. 1273)

Born about 1233 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England

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Biography

Father Ralph de Mortimer, Baron Wigmore, Constable of Clun Castle b. c 1190, d. 6 Aug 1246

Mother Gladys 'the Black', Princess of Wales b. c 1200, d. 1251

Hugh de Mortimer was born circa 1237 at of Wigmore, Herefordshire, England.^[1] He married Agatha Ferrers, daughter of Sir William de Ferrers, 5th Earl Derby, Constable of Bolsover Castle and Sybil Marshal, in 1255.^[2] Hugh de Mortimer died in 1273 at of Chelmarsh, England.

Family

• Agatha Ferrers b. c 1232, d. 1306

“Hugh Mortimer (d. pre-1274), lord of Chelmarsh.71 He was the son of Ralph Mortimer (d. 1246), lord of Wigmore. ... Chelmarsh had long been in the gift of the lord of Wigmore, being a means to endow younger brothers; but Hugh received it, in part at least, as an inheritance, and thus became head of his own cadet branch of the family. He was sheriff of Shropshire and Staffordshire in 1271. He married Agatha de Ferrers (d. 1306), who inherited one sixth of the manor of Luton from her mother (Isabel de Ferrers, countess of Derby) and who bore him at least three sons.72 1. John Mortimer (d. pre-1274), without issue. 2. Henry Mortimer (d. 1317). See below. 3. Hugh Mortimer (fl. 1287-1300), lord of Carkedon, which he held from the Mortimers of Richard’s Castle.73” ^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Some Early English Pedigrees, by Vernon M. Norr, p. 89.
2. ↑ Some Early English Pedigrees, by Vernon M. Norr, p. 68.
3. ↑ [1]