The Greatest Traitor: The Life of Sir Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March by Ian Mortimer Page A

Hugh Despenser: 1–2, 99–110, 125, 281 (n. 11)
– attempts to purchase Gower: 100
– loses Justiciarship of Ireland: 102, 113
– defends Badlesmere: 112–113
– retreat from Kent andsurrender 1322: 114–115, 125, 281 (n. 6)
– inventories of possessions at Wigmore 1322: 116–120
– imprisonment in the Tower: 122–123, 161
– trial and judgement 1322: 125–126
– escape from the Tower: 1–2, 128–132, 172, 182, 282 (n. 16, 18)
– in France and Hainault 1323: 133–134, 320–321
– supporters in England persecuted: 134–135, 146
– relationship with Isabella: 128, 136, 144–148, 284 (n. 20)
– feared to be about to attack England: 133–134, 138
– in Hainault: 140–141, 148–149
– returns to France: 143
– threatens to kill Isabella should she return to Edward: 147–148, 196, 240
– gathers an army and fleet: 148–149
– invades England: 150–157
– reward of £1,000 placed on his head: 151
– compared with Despenser as a strategist: 153
– attacks Bristol: 156
– leadership role in 1326 invasion: 157–159, 286 (n. 12)
– deliberate concealment of his role in government: 158
– in judgement on Despensers: 159
– meets Joan again after invasion: 164
– process of deposing Edward II: 165–170
– restrained grant-awarding following coronation: 171–172
– appointed Justiciar of Wales: 172
– policy of appeasement towards Henry of Lancaster: 172, 203–205
– removal of Edward II from Kenilworth: 173–174, 196
– absences from court in 1327: 174, 198
– negotiations about Scottish independence: 175
– reaction to rescue of Edward II from Berkeley: 176
– control of Edward III: 177
– role in Weardale campain: 177–180
– role in the Berkeley Castle plot: 186–188, 190–199, 244–251, 262
– conflict with Henry of Lancaster 1328–29: 194
– secret custody of Edward II 1327–1330: 196
– relationship with Edward III: 196, 198–199
– possible role in the royal funeral 1327: 198
– restrained grant-awarding following Berkeley Castle plot: 200–201, 204
– method of government 1327–1328: 201–204
– reaction to the death of Charles IV: 204
– role in Northampton parliament 1328: 204–205
– first Mortimer double wedding at Hereford: 206, 294 (n. 22)
– builds semi-detached palace at Ludlow: 206
– building as his pastime: 207
– his religious devotion considered: 207
– inventory of his possessions at Ludlow 1330: 207–208
– attends royal wedding at Berwick: 209–210
– death of his son Roger: 210–211
– opposed openly by Henry of Lancaster: 210–212
– reaction to Lancaster’s petitions of grievances: 213–214
– created Earl of March 31 November 1328: 214–215, 240, 295 (n. 37)
– preparations for war: 215–218
– death of his son John: 216
– endowment of Leintwardine chantry: 216, 222–223
– at war with Lancaster: 217–218, 240
– possible illegitimate child by Isabella: 221–224
– recipient of gifts from Edward III 1329: 224
– disrespect towards Edward: 224
– plot to murder Edmund, Earl of Kent: 225
– second Mortimer double wedding at Wigmore: 225–226, 294 (n. 22)
– attempts to appear a member of the royal family: 226
– addressed as ‘The King of Folly’: 227
– increasing acquisitiveness: 228
– role in arrest of Earl of Kent: 229
– prosecutes Earl of Kent: 229–231
– sentences Kent to death: 231–232
– proscription of his enemies: 232–233
– acquisitiveness: 233–234
– relationship with Edward wears thin: 235
– opposition to his government: 235–239
– arrest in Nottingham Castle: 237–239
– trial and judgement: 239–241
– execution: 241, 268
– burial: 242, 299 (n. 3)
– historical judgement on him: 265
Mortimer, Roger (d. 1333?), son of Lord Mortimer of Chirk: 234
Mortimer, Roger (d. 1328), son of Roger: 102, 121, 153, 170, 201, 320
Mortimer, Roger (1328–1360), grandson of Roger, 2nd Earl of March (1354): 215, 242, 295 (n. 31), 296 (n. 13)
Mortimer, William, brother of Edmund