Roger Bertram, lord of Mitford

This feudal lord being involved in the proceedings of the barons in the 17th King John, 1215-16, his castle and lands in Mitford were seized and conferred upon Philip de Ulecotes but afterwards making his peace, and Philip de Ulecotes not seeming willing to obey the king's mandate in restoring those lands, he was threatened with the immediate confiscation of his own territorial possessions in the cos. of York, Nottingham and Durham. After this period Roger Bertram appears to have enjoyed the royal favour and in the 13th of Henry III [1219], when Alexander of Scotland was to meet the English monarch at York, he was one of the great northern barons who had command to attend him thither. He d. in 1241, and was s. by his son, Roger Bertram.

Notes

was at Runnymede for the signing of the Magna Carta. King John's troops later attached the Barony of Mitford burning down the Castle and the Church (including many of the villagers who had taken shelter) in the Church. The Church bell used to sound the alarm still exists and hangs just inside the door of the current St. Mary Magdalene Church (it is believed to be one of the oldest bells in England). (link 2)

Sources

1. Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant,Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 52, Bertram, Barons Bertram, of Mitford

Links

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http://cybergata.com/roots/9289.htm

Family Links
Spouses/Children: Thomas Fitz William Dionise Fitz William+ Agnes Bertram Born: Abt 1212, Northumberland, England Marriage: Thomas Fitz William 141,1190

• Background Information. 1190 Agnes, daughter of Roger Bertram, married Thomas Fitz William, Lord of Elmelery and Sprotborough, co. York.

~Burke's A Genealogical History of Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, p.52

• Background Information. 141 Agnes was the daughter of a Roger Bertram as well as a sister of another Roger Bertram who died leaving only one child, als named Agnes. This Agnes d.s.p. long before 29 Jan 1311, when the descendans of her father's four sisters were found to be her heirs. Among these were Sir William Fitz Thomas, son and heir of Sir Thomas Fitz William by Agnes, the first sister.

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 162

Agnes married Thomas Fitz William, son of William Fitz William and Ela de Warenne 141.,645 (Thomas Fitz William was born about 1195 in Sprotborough, Doncaster, Yorkshire, England and died in 1267-1279 in Yorkshire, England 141.)

1. http://www.brookfieldpublishing.com/Barons/Barons/baron_roger_bertr...