Roger de Mortimer Sire de Mortimer

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁷²¹
Roger de Mortemer, siegneur of Mortemer-sur-Eaulne in Normandy, flourished between 1054 to 1078. He died sometime before 1086. He was married to Hawise, daughter of Rranulf de Montdidier.

He was the leader of the Norman forces at the battler of Mortemer in 1054. He assisted the escape of Ralph, Count of Montididier, to whom he had sworn loyalty. As a result of this, his estate was given to his relative William de Wareene.
~Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 166

• Background Information. ⁸¹⁴
Roger or Ralph de Mortimer, the first of this line to arrive in England at the time of the Normand conquest. He obtained, by force or arms, the castle of Wigmore, in the Marches of Wales. This area a numerous manors in divers counties, all of which he possessed at the time of the Domesday servey.
~Baronia Anglica Concentrata, Vol. I, p. 335

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Roger de Mortemer, Seigneur of Mortemer-sur-Eaulne in Normandy, was one of the leaders of the Norman forces at the battle of Mortemer in 1054. Becauase he assisted the escape of one of the French prisoner, Ralph, Count of Montdidier, to whom he had done homage, he was exiled and his lands confiscated. He was afterwards reconciled to Duke William and some of his lands were restored to him, though not Moretmer, which had been given to his consanguineus William de Warrene. Saint-Victor-en-Caux thereupon became the caput of the Norman honor of the family. He is said to have founded the abbey of Saint-Victor-en-Caux. He was living in 1078 or later, but was dead in 1086, when his son Ralph appears in Domesday Book. He married Hawise.

Roger's wife, Hawise, and son, Ralph, gave land in Mers in the diocese of Amiens to the abbey; in 1192 Theobald, Bishop of Amiens, confirmed this gift at Mers. The fact that Hawise held land at Mers in Le Vimeu explains the homage done by Roger de Mortimer to Ralph, Count of Montdider, and suggests that the marriage was earlier than 1054, the date of the battle of Mortemer. Since Hawise and her son join in this gift, she appears to have survived her husband.

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, (Mortimer of Wigmore), Vol. IX. pp. 266-267

Roger married Hawise.⁷²¹