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Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March

1287–1330

Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, was an English marcher lord who became the lover and political ally of Queen Isabella. After helping depose Edward II, he ruled through the young Edward III until his arrest and execution in 1330.

Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March also held the offices or ranks of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March belonged to the Mortimer family and operated within Kingdom of England. Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March was born in Wigmore Castle and died in London.

Anne O’Brien’s A Court of Betrayal tells Roger Mortimer’s rise and fall largely through his wife Joan de Geneville, following his rebellion against Edward II, escape from imprisonment, alliance with Queen Isabella, seizure of power and execution in 1330. David Pilling’s Folville's Law (II) places Mortimer at the height of that dominance, when the young Edward III wears the crown but Isabella and Mortimer control government. Michael Jecks’s King's Gold begins in the aftermath of their 1326 victory as Edward II is held prisoner and the new regime searches for royal treasure and loyalists. Alison Weir’s Isabella makes Mortimer the queen’s political partner and lover in the deposition of her husband. Griff Hosker’s Targets of Treachery belongs to the earlier marcher generation under Edward I, supplying the violent Welsh-border world from which the Mortimer family’s later power emerged rather than centring the future earl himself.

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Invasion of England and Deposition of Edward II1326–1327 CE

Series

Historical novels and book series featuring Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March (7 series)

Lord Edward’s Archer in Order

by Griff Hosker 10 books 4.5(51,903)

Lord Edward’s Archer follows Gerald Warbow from the Welsh Marches into the wars and political crises of Edward I and Edward II. The series combines archer warfare with the Second Barons’ War, Welsh resistance, crusading, the Scottish wars and court intrigue. It is a medieval military sequence about…

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Last Templar Mysteries in Order

by Michael Jecks 32 books 4.2(20,880)

The Last Templar Mysteries follow Sir Baldwin de Furnshill, a survivor of the suppression of the Knights Templar, and his friend Simon Puttock, a Devon bailiff. Most of the sequence is set between 1316 and 1327, when the two men investigate deaths in villages, monasteries, ports and cathedral…

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The Accursed Kings in Order

by Maurice Druon 7 books 4.2(8,269)

The Accursed Kings follows the French and English monarchies from the final year of Philip IV's reign in 1314 to the capture of John II at Poitiers and the political crisis of the late 1350s. Across seven novels, the direct Capetian line fails, the Valois dynasty takes the…

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The Rose Trilogy in Order

by Carol McGrath 3 books 4.1(8,566)

Carol McGrath’s Rose Trilogy reimagines the lives of three medieval queens of England through the women around them, pairing royal politics with intimate viewpoints from beyond the throne. The Silken Rose follows Eleanor of Provence and the commoner Rosalind in Henry III’s troubled court; The Damask Rose turns…

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Storm of Arrows in Order

by Paul Bannister 2 books 4.0(2,812)

The Storm of Arrows sequence follows Sir Thomas Holland from Edward III’s seizure of power to the opening campaigns of the Hundred Years’ War. Storm of Arrows places the young archer and baron beside the king during the overthrow of Roger Mortimer, the wars in Scotland, the naval…

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Folville’s Law in Order

by David Pilling 2 books 4.1(113)

Folville's Law follows Sir John Swale through the violent collapse of Edward II's government and the uncertain minority of Edward III. Set amid northern warfare, political murder, outlaw bands and the rise and fall of Roger Mortimer, the novels blend medieval crime with the struggle for control of…

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The Wars of the Roses Saga in Order

by David Field 2 books 4.3(81)

The Wars of the Roses Saga begins well before the fifteenth-century conflict, tracing the Plantagenet inheritance from the defeat of Simon de Montfort in 1265. The fictional Bywater family serves successive kings and discovers that royal patronage can restore an estate in one reign and destroy it in…

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