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Medieval magnates. Arms of Mortimer (Mortimer of Wigmore): Barry or and azure, on a chief of the first two pallets between two base esquires of the second over all an inescutcheon argent.
Sir Thomas Mortimer (c. 1350–1399) was a medieval English soldier and statesman who served briefly in several important administrative and judicial state offices in Ireland and played a part in the opposition to the government of King Richard II.
This is a list of the various different nobles and magnates including both lords spiritual and lords secular. It also includes nobles who were vassals of the king but were not based in England (Welsh, Irish, French).
#TitleRegionCoats Of Arms1Earls Palatine of ChesterWales2Earls Palatine of LancasterNorth-WestEdmund Crouchback (1245–1296)3Earls of DevonSouth-West4Earls of WarwickWest MidlandsMortimer Family, Anglo-Norman family, afterward earls of March and Ulster, that wielded great power on the Welsh marches, attained political eminence in the 13th and 14th centuries, and in the 15th possessed a claim to the English throne. Among the most notable members of the family were Roger.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The Mortimers of Wigmore Ambitious and powerful, the Mortimers bestrode the medieval stage. Inextricably linked with the great events of their time, their story is the tale of a turbulent England racked with dissension, rebellion and open warfare at home and abroad. Following the Conqueror they.
Há 4 dias · The Mortimers were a powerful aristocratic family of the Welsh Marches, centered around Wigmore Castle in Herefordshire, who from the fourteenth century held the title of Earl of March.
Roger Mortimer is one of the most enigmatic and influential figures in the history of the medieval British Isles. Lord of Wigmore on the Welsh marches, his career witnessed both loyal service to the person of the king and outright rebellion against it, even marshalling the resistance that precipitated the unprecedented deposition of an anointed ...
