Roger Mortimer de Chirk (c.1256 â€" 3 August 1326) was a 14th-century
Marcher lord, notable for his opposition to Edward II of England
during the Despenser War.Roger was the third son of Roger Mortimer, a
powerful Marcher lord in the Welsh border territories, and Maud de
Braose, Baroness Mortimer who was also an important Marcher landowner
in her own right. The family were from the second rank of parvenu
nobility elevated by the king as a reward for fierce loyalty to the
Plantagenet dynasty. But he was said to be a lecherous and violent
man.Roger was the third son of Roger Mortimer, a powerful Marcher lord
in the Welsh border territories, and Maud de Braose, Baroness Mortimer
who was also an important Marcher landowner in her own right. The
family were from the second rank of parvenu nobility elevated by the
king as a reward for fierce loyalty to the Plantagenet dynasty. But he
was said to be a lecherous and violent man.He married Lucy de la
Wafre, the daughter of Sir Robert la Wavre Lord of Hampton Wafer,
Herefordshire, by whom he had one legitimate son, also named Roger.
Presumably they were married by 8 June 1286, when Roger de Mortimer
presented at the manor of Tedstone Wafer.In 1269, Gruffydd II, prince
of Powys Fadog, died, and his lands were divided between his four
sons. In 1277, the eldest son, Madog II, died; his two young brothers,
Llywelyn and Owain, were still children, leaving them, and their
lands, at the mercy of his eldest brother Gruffydd Fychan I. Mortimer
was appointed by King Edward Longshanks to be the guardian of Owain
and Llywelyn, but four years later their bodies washed up in the River
Dee; Mortimer was accused of their murder. Mortimer, guilty or not,
was granted their lands - the Cantref of Swydd y Waun. It is possible
that Mortimer had needed the lands to raise his nephew, Roger, as his
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