Lord Edmund De Mortimer ^{4 5 6 7}

   Ancestral File Number: 8HRJ-M5.

  General Notes:

Sir Edmund Mortimer, Lord of Wigmore, who m. Margaret, dau. of Sir William de Fiennes. In the 10th Edward I [1282], he s. his father and the next year, doing his homage, had livery of his lands. He was afterwards constantly employed in the Welsh wars and was summoned to parliament as a baron from 8 June, 1294, and from 23 June, 1295, to 2 June, 1302. His lordship was mortally wounded in 1303 at the battle of Buelt, against the Welsh, and dying almost immediately at Wigmore Castle, was buried in the abbey there. He left issue, Roger, his successor; John, accidentally slain in a tournament at Worcester, 12th Edward 11 [1319], by John de Leybourne, being not more than eighteen years of age; Hugh, a priest, rector of the church at Old Radnor; Walter, a priest, rector of Kingston; Edmund, a priest, rector of Hodnet, and treasurer of the cathedral at York; Maud, m. to Theobald de Verdon; Joan and Elizabeth, nuns. His lordship was s. by his eldest son, Roger Mortimer, 2nd baron. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage Ltd, London, England, 1883, p. 384, Mortimer, Barons Mortimer, of Wigmore, Earls of March]

  Noted events in his life were:

• He has conflicting birth information of Alt. Birth and 1261. ¹

• He worked as a Lord Wigmore. 7th Lord Wigmore

Edmund married Margaret De Fiennes, daughter of William II De Fiennes Lord Of Wendover and Blanche De Brienne Lady Of Loupeland, about 1285 in Fiennes, , Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.¹ (Margaret De Fiennes was born about 1262-1270 in Wigmore, , Herefordshire, England and died on 7 Feb 1333-1334 in Wigmore, , Herefordshire, England ¹.)

Edmund next married Joan De Grey, daughter of De Grey and Unknown.^{2 3} (Joan De Grey was born about 1257 in Wilton Castle, Ross-On-Wye, Herefordshire, England and died before 1285 ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

1st Wife