Ralph de Mortimer

Ralph de Mortimer
Ralph de Mortimer
Born	Before 1198
Died	6 August 1246
Spouse	Gwladus Ddu (m. 1230)
Children	3, including Roger
Father	Roger de Mortimer
Relatives	Walchelin de Ferriers (grandfather); Walter de Beauchamp (brother-in-law); Llywelyn ab Iorwerth (father-in-law); Joan, Lady of Wales (mother-in-law); Maud de Braose (daughter-in-law)

Ranulph or Ralph de Mortimer (before 1198 to 6 August 1246) was the second son of Roger de Mortimer and Isabel de Ferrers of Wigmore Castle in Herefordshire. He succeeded his elder brother before 23 November 1227 and built Cefnllys and Knucklas castles in 1240.

Marriage and issue

Arms of Mortimer: Barry or and azure, on a chief of the first two pallets between two base esquires of the second over all an inescutcheon argent

In 1230, Ralph married Princess Gwladus, daughter of Llywelyn ab Iorwerth and Joan, Lady of Wales (the only acknowledged, illegitimate daughter of John, King of England). They had the following children:

Roger Mortimer, 1st Baron Mortimer, in 1247, married Maud de Braose, by whom he had seven children
Hugh de Mortimer (d. 1273x4), lord of Chelmarsh
Peter or John Mortimer, a Franciscan friar in Shrewsbury^[1]

References

^ Mortimer, Ian. "Outline Lineage of the Medieval Mortimer family" (PDF). mortimer.co.uk. Retrieved 12 July 2020.

Remfry, P.M., Wigmore Castle Tourist Guide and the Family of Mortimer (ISBN 1-899376-76-3)
Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis; Lines 132C-29, 176B-28, 28–29, 67–29, 77–29, 176B-29
A history of Wales from the earliest times to the Edwardian conquest (Longmans, Green & Co.) by John Edward Lloyd (1911)

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[1] Mortimer, Ian. "Outline Lineage of the Medieval Mortimer family" (PDF). mortimer.co.uk. Retrieved 12 July 2020.

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