WIGMORE CASTLE, HEREFORDSHIRE. 9 



of Augustines was valued, at the dissolution, at £267- 2s. lOd. per 

 annum.* 



Hugh Mortimer left issue four sons, Roger, Baron Wigmore, 

 Hugh, Lord of Chalmarsh, who married Felicia De St. Sydon, hut 

 hecame defunct without issue, Ralph, and Sir William de Morti- 

 mer, knight, who died unmarried, a captive abroad. 



Roger is said, on Dugdale's authority, to have oppressed the 

 canons so grievously that most of them were forced to retire to 

 Scobbedon; but the ground of complaint was, at last, adjusted by 

 king Henry; and Roger, before his death, confirmed his father's 

 grants to them, and added others of his own. 



Roger was twice married. He espoused first, Milisent, daughter 

 of the Earl of Derby, and by her he had a son named Hugh, who 

 succeeded his father in the lordship of Wigmore, but expired with- 

 out issue, in the year 1227 ; secondly, Isabella, daughter of Henry 

 de Newburgh, Earl of Warwick, and relict of William Ferrars, 

 Lord of Wokeham, in the county of Rutland, by whom he had 

 three sons, Ralph, Robert, and Philip. 



Roger Mortimer died in the year 1215, the year before king 

 John, and, as is above stated, was succeeded in his lordship of Wig- 

 more by his eldest son Hugh, who held it till 1227,. when his bro- 

 ther Ralph came into that possession. It was, therefore, to Roger, 

 rather than to Ralph, that we are to attribute what Dugdalet 

 assigns to the latter. Mvtato nomine, then, the account runs thus. 

 King John sent this warrior into NormandyJ for its defence, as it 

 had been invaded by Philippe Auguste, king of France, John 

 having refused to do him homage for the same. The lord of Wig- 

 more was taken prisoner, and, during his absence, the Welsh, 

 making an irruption into Herefordshire, plundered and burnt down 

 the monastery of Wigmore, leaving only the church standing. 

 Now, as the pedigree in the herald's college terms Hogev /undator 

 ahhaticB de Wigmore, and his father primus fundator, and as Dug- 

 ^ale says that, before his death, Roger confirmed his father's grants 

 and added others of his own, it appears a just inference that he 

 repaired the ravages committed at the abbey, and bestowed on it a 

 further endowment. His widow Isabella, imitating the piety of 



* Tanner's Not. Mon., 174. 

 ■\ Monasticon. 



X John eventually lost this and Guienne, whence he acquired the soubri- 

 quet of Lackland. 



