Margaret de Fiennes

  General Notes:

~Weis" Ancestral Roots. . . , 27:30, 70:32, 120:32 ¹⁶⁰

Sir Edmund de Mortimer's 2^nd, whom he married circa 1285, was Margaret, daughter of Sir William de Fienes, the 2^nd cousin of Eleanor of Castile, Queen of Edward I, by Blanche de Brienne. Dower was assigned to Margaret de Fiennes, 25 Sep 1304. The castle of Radnor was restored to her, as her dower, after seizure upon her son's forfeiture. Her presence in those parts was too great an encouragement to the contrariants to be suffered, and she was therefore lodged in various places (in Hants, in Skipton-in-Craven and Pontefract Castles, and in Elstowe nunnery) by order of the King. Her lands, which had been seized by the King in 1322, were restored in 1328. In 1330 a papal indult was issued for her. She died 7 February 1333/4.

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, (Mortimer of Wigmore), Vol. IX. pp. 281-283, Vol. XIV, p. 488

~The Dictionary of National Biography, at the end of the article on Roger II Mortimer states, however, that Edmund (Mortimer) married "Margaret ... doubtless the daughter of William de Fiennes, a Picard nobleman, who was second cousin to (Queen) Eleanor through her mother Joan, countess of Ponthieu."

~Richardson's Plantagenet Ancestry, pg. 152

  Information about this person:

• Children.
Maud de Mortimer born Abt 1285 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England
Roger de Mortimer, 1st Earl of March born before 3 May 1287 in Netherwood, Thornbury, Herefordshire, England
Joan de Mortimer born Abt 1288 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England

Margaret married Sir Edmund de Mortimer Baron, Mortimer, 7th Baron Mortimer of Wigmore, son of Sir Roger de Mortimer 6th Baron of Mortimer of Wigmore and Maud de Braose ^141,160.^,528 (Sir Edmund de Mortimer Baron, Mortimer, 7th Baron Mortimer of Wigmore was born in 1261 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England,^141,160,526 died on 17 Jul 1304 in Wigmore Castle, Herefordshire, England ^141,160,526 and was buried in Wigmore Castle, Herefordshire, England.)