MORTIMER, Roger (last)of Fowlis Easter, Sir ^{1 2 3}

   Another name for Roger was MORTIMER, Roger of Inverbervie.⁴

   User ID: C114.

  General Notes:

"By the time (September 1341) the Estates had assembled there, however, David was three months into a programme of renewed royal patronage and attempts to assume personal sway over the Scots in war. His resettlement of lands and offices between 1341 and 1346 was from the first characterised by a desire to attract for the Crown the support and loyalty of noticeably lesser magnates, knights and esquires, men who had fought for the Bruce Scots since 1332 and in some cases earned a strong reputa tion as 'flowers of chivalry'." [ .... ] "Around Angus and the Mearns David favoured a number of lesser knights, including the Ramsays (sheriffs of Forfar), Roger Mortimer of Inverbervie, Sir Walter Moigne, Sir Reginald Cheyne, William Fraser of Cowie (who had helped Douglas of Lothian capture Edinburgh castle in 1341) and, again, the Keiths and the earl ofSutherland." (pages 160-161)

"That between 1341 and 1346 David must have indicated that he intended to deny the Steward's rightful inheritance to Fife and assert Crown control there also helps explain the considerable amount of patronage David gave to Fife men. The king confirmed and added to the lands in this shire of Alexander Ramsay of Dalhousie, Walter Haliburton (later David's man in Dirleton, East Lothian), David Annan, Roger Mortimer of Inverbervie, David Weymss (sheriff of Fife), and Robert Glen (husband of David's illegitimate sister, Maud, by 1345). Robert Glen (husband of David's illegitimate sister, Maud, by 1345). David also secured William Landellis, of Fife baronial stock, as bishop of St Andrews in 1342.³⁷" (page 170)

"(Note) ³⁷: .... RRS, vi, nos. 40 (Alexander Ramsay), 62 (confirmation of Earl Duncan grant to Mortimer). Chron. Lanercost, 272, named 13 knights of Fife as attending Edward Balliol's coronation in 1332 with Earl Duncan - David Graham, Michael and David Weymss, Michael Scott, John Inchmartin, Alexander Lamberton, John Dumnore, John Bonville, William Fraser, William de Cambo, Roger Mortimer, John Landellis, Walter Lundie - of whom those in italic were rewarded by David 1341-6 and/or killed//captured in 1346"

from JSTOR

Note:

King David II of Scots had a mistress named Katherine Mortimer:

"Another major concern for the king was the provision of an heir 'of his body', which was complicated by the fact that he was now totally estranged from his wife Joan, who shortly after his return to Scotland left for England, where she remained until her death in 1362. In the meantime, David had to content himself with a mistress Katherine Mortimer, who later Scottish chroniclers believed to be English but who was more likely related to the Mortimers of Inverbervie, who received considerable patronage in the course of David and Katherine's relationship. David and Katherine were very open about their relationship and she regularly appeared in public with him. However, despite what was later claimed there is no contemporary evidence that she had undue influence over the government of Scotland through him or that he was raiding the public purse to give her a comfortable lifestyle. Nonetheless, her prominence generated enough distrust to see her murdered within sight of the king as they were travelling north from Melrose after delivering the second installment of the ransom to the English. Thomas Stewart, earl of Angus, was blamed for the murder, being imprisoned at Dumbarton Castle and dying a year later, possibly of the plague. However, Penman has suggested, rather convincingly, that a number of ither great magnates who felt threatened by the king's attempts to assert his authority - such as the Steward and Douglas - may have approved of and even abetted the incident."

from The Other Bruce King ^{4 5}

Roger married Mother UNKNOWN. (Mother UNKNOWN was born about 1325.)

  Marriage Notes:

No first marriage is noted either in The Medieval Mortimer Family or in the POMS files for Sir Roger Mortimer.

However a son, William Mortimer, whose father is recorded as Roger Mortimer, knight, is recorded in a transaction of 1360, well before Sir Roger's marriage in 1377, with Margaret of Menteith, that produced Janet Mortimer, who became the wife of Sir Andrew Gray:

1

"Relationship: Son of Roger de Mortimer (TD2) [Familial relationship]

RELATIONSHIP: Son

SUBJECT: William, son of Roger de Mortimer

FROM SOURCE: 1/54/254 (RRS, vi, no. 231)

FIRM DATE: 31 January 1360

DATING NOTES: Last day of January, regnal year 30"

2

"Transaction: Confirmation of Ballandro, part of Peattie, third of demesne land of Inverbervie (KCD)

Confirmation: FROM SOURCE 1/54/254 (RRS, vi, no. 231)

FIRM DATE: 31 January 1360

DATING NOTES: Last day of January, regnal year 30

PRIMARY: yes

EXEMPTIONS: saving my service (salvo servicio meo)

Associated People (3):

Grantor: David II, king of Scots (d. 1371) fl 1329 × 1371

Beneficiary: Roger de Mortimer, knight (TD2); Rogero de Mortuo Mari; Roger de Mortimer fl 1341 × 1360

Beneficiary: William, son of Roger de Mortimer; Willelmo; William his son fl 1360 × 1360"

from POMS ^{2 6 7}

Roger next married Margaret STEWART, daughter of Alexander STEWART of Menteith and Unknown, in 1377.^{1 2} (Margaret STEWART was born about 1340.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Relationship: Bride/betrothed (f.) (sponsa) of Roger de Mortimer, knight [Familial relationship]

RELATIONSHIP: Bride/betrothed (f.) (sponsa)

SUBJECT: Margaret of Menteith

FROM SOURCE: 1/54/421 (RMS, i, no. 176)

FIRM DATE: 14 July 1364

DATING NOTES: 14 July, regnal year 35"

from POMS




"He (Andrew Gray) married, first, Janet, daughter of Sir Roger de Mortimer and his wife Margaret, daughter of Alexander of Menteith, as appears from a charter of King Robert II., dated at Dundee 20 June 1377, proceeding on a resignation by Sir Roger of the lands of Foulis, in the county of Perth, in favour of the spouses and their heirs"

from Scots Peerage (vol 4)




"Another Roger Mortimer was lord there (at Fowlis Easter) in 1296 and, in 1327, another William Mortimer was lord. Their descendants remained at Fowlis Easter until 1377, when Janet, daughter of the last Roger Mortimer of Fowlis Easter, married Sir Andrew Grey. Even after that, Mortimer descendants remained in the area, one in particular being Bernard Mortimer (fl. 1404), who is reputed to have been the ancestor of the Mortimers of Craigievar. They latter family bore for their arms argent, a lion rampant sable guttée d'argent, which probably reflect the arms their ancestors at Fowlis Easter had borne since the thirteenth century."

from The Medieval Mortimer Family ^{1 2 8}