Ralph de Mortimer

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

In 1230, Ralph married Princess Gwladus, daughter of Llywelyn ab
Iorwerth. They had the following children:

Roger Mortimer, 1st Baron Mortimer, in 1247, married Maud

de Braose, by whom he had seven children.
Arms of Mortimer: Barry or and
Hugh de Mortimer (d. 1273x4), lord of Chelmarsh.
azure, on a chief of the first two
Peter or John Mortimer, a Franciscan friar in Shrewsbury.[1] pallets between two base
esquires of the second over all an

References inescutcheon argent

1. Mortimer, Ian. "Outline Lineage of the Medieval Mortimer

family" (http://www.mortimer.co.uk/family/outlinelineage.pdf) (PDF). mortimer.co.uk. Retrieved
12 Jul 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.)
John Edward Lloyd (1911)

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