Other Events and Attributes:

• Notable Quote: Here lies buried, glittering with praise, Roger the pure, Roger Mortimer the second, called Lord of Wigmore by those who held him dear
• _MILT: took part in Edward I's 1282 campaign against Llewelyn the Last, and was put in charge of operations in mid-Wales

Notes:

Birth:
Cymaron Castle

Buried:
(Wigmore Abbey)

Family/Spouse: Maud de Braose. Maud was born in 1226 in Gowerton, Glamorgan, Wales; died in 1301 in Herefordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. 2nd Baron Mortimer Edmund Mortimer, I was born in 1251 in Hertfordshire, England; died on 17 Jul 1304 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England.

Ralph married Princess of North Wales Gwladus verch Llywelyn in 1230. Gwladus (daughter of Prince of North Wales and Lord of Snowdonia Llywelyn ap Lorwerth and Lady of Wales and Snowdon Lady Joan Plantagenet, daughter of Tangwystyl Goch) was born in 1205 in Gwynedd, Wales; died in 1251 in Wales. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Ddu

Notes:

Birth:
Wigmore Castle

Roger married Isabel de Ferrieres. Isabel was born in 1166 in Oakham, Rutland County, England; died on 29 Apr 1252 in Lechlade, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
St. John Hospital of Lechlade

Other Events and Attributes:

• Notable Quote: True lord of the land – how strange that today, He rules not o'er Gwynedd; Lord of nought but the piled up stones of his tomb, Of the seven-foot grave in which he lies
• Name: the Great
• _MILT: Among the chieftains who battled against the Anglo-Norman power his place will always be high, if not indeed the highest of all, for no man ever made better or more judicious use of the native force of the Welsh people for adequate national ends
• Occupation: 1215; He allied himself with the barons who forced John to sign the Magna Carta in 1215

Notes:

Birth:
Aberffraw Castle

Llywelyn married Lady of Wales and Snowdon Lady Joan Plantagenet in 1205. Lady (daughter of King of England John Plantagenet and Queen Consort of England Isabella of Angoulême) was born in 1191; died on 2 Feb 1237; was buried in Anglesey, Wales. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Buried:
Beaumaris Parish Church

Notes:

Married:
At Easter 1230, William de Braose, who was Llywelyn's prisoner at the time, was discovered with Joan in Llywelyn's bedchamber. William de Braose was hanged on 2 May 1230. Joan was placed under house arrest for twelve months, but then forgiven

Iowerth married Margred Maney verch Madog in 1163 in Aberffraw, Anglesey, Wales. Margred was born in 1129 in Aberffraw, Anglesey, Wales; died in 1198 in Wales. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Lackland
• Religion: His lack of religious conviction has been noted by contemporary chroniclers and later historians, with some suspecting that John was at best impious, or even atheistic, a very serious issue at the time
• _MILT: During John's reign, England lost the duchy of Normandy to King Philip II of France, which resulted in the collapse of most of the Angevin Empire and contributed to the subsequent growth in power of the Capetian dynasty during the 13th century.
• Occupation: 1215; Signed the Magna Carta

Notes:

Buried:
(Worcester Cathedral)

Died:
In King's Lynn, John contracted dysentery, which would ultimately prove fatal./Newark Castle

John married Queen Consort of England Isabella of Angoulême in 1200. Isabella (daughter of Count of Angoulême of the House of Taillefer Aymer Taillefer and Countess of Angoulême Alice 'Alix' de Courtenay) was born on 19 Feb 1188 in Angoulême, Charente, Poitou-Charentes, France; died on 4 Jun 1246 in Fontevrault, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France; was buried in Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• _ORDI: 99th great granddaughter of Adam and Eve
• _MILT: 1244; Isabella formed a conspiracy against King Louis IX of France in 1241, after being publicly snubbed by his mother, Blanche of Castile for whom she had a deep-seated hatred. After the plot had failed, Isabella was accused of attempting to poison the king

Notes:

Buried:
Fontevraud Abbey

Died:
Fontevraud Abbey