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taciite's company." He was, nevertheless, seized in his bed-room 

 and secured, notwithstanding "he had ix score knightes at his re- 

 tinew," and sent, with Sir Simon Bereford, to the tower.* It was 

 in the year 1330 that he was arraigned before the peers in parlia- 

 ment, convicted, and executed. 



The Earl of March had issue by his Countess four sons and seven 

 daughters, viz. : Edmund, who succeeded to his titles of Earls of 

 March and Lord of Wigmore ; Sir Roger de Mortimer, knight ; 

 GefFry, Earl of Jubinensis or Juyllenensis and Lord of Cowyke, 

 bestowed on him by Joan, wife of Peter de Geneville, daughter and 

 heiress of the Count de la March; John, killed in a tournament 

 at Shrewsbury ; Margaret, wife of Thomas Fitzmaurice, Lord of 

 Berkeley ; Catherine,t wife of Thomas Beauchamp, Earl of War- 

 wick; Johanna, married to the Lord James de Audeley ; Agnes, 

 who e'ispoused Laurence (or Jolm)f de Hastings, Earl of Pembroke; 

 Matilda, wife of John, son and heir of John de Charleton, lord of 

 Pool, or Powys, Castle ; Blanch, the spouse of the Lord Peter de 

 Grandison ; and Beatrice, the wife of Edward, son and heir of 

 Thomas de Brotherton, Earl Marshall, and, after his death, of the 

 Lord Thomas de Breose. 



On the claim of Edward III. to the crown of France, the Earl 

 of March obtained a reversal of the sentence against his father, and 

 was one of the nobles who attended immediately on the person of 

 the king at the memorable battle of Crecy, in 1346. He died at 

 Rover, in Burgundy, in the year 1359. By his wife Elizabeth, 

 one of the daughters and heiresses of Bartholemew, Lord De Bad- 

 lesraere, the rich lord of Leeds and other lordships, he had Roger 

 de Mortimer, third Earl of March, K. G., and John, who died in 

 his childhood. This Roger espoused Philippa, daughter of William 

 Montacute, Earl of Salisbury, K. G. She died in the year 1381. 

 By her will, dated 21st of November, three years antecedent, she 

 bequeaths to the Abbey of Wigmore her best vestment with three 

 copes, which belonged to her chapel ; and to her son Edmond a 



• Ibid, p. 477. 



t She died in the year 1369. 



^ So says the pedigree in the College of Arms, but most authorities pre- 

 fer Laurence. He died in 1348, and soon after she married John de Hak- 

 clut, a Herefordshire gentleman, who, in the twenty-ninth of Edward III., 

 obtained from the king a grant of the custody of the town and castle of Pem- 

 broke and other lands, to himself and his wife Agnes, during the minority of 

 John de Hastings, Earl of Pembroke, her son by her first husband. She 



died 25th of July, 1368 Dugdale, vol. i., p. 577. 



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