The Mortimer History Society Journal

Memorial to Llywelyn ap Gruffudd
at Cwmhir Abbey in Powys, Wales

St Thomas Cantilupe
in Hereford Cathedral

The annual MHS Journal contains articles of a more-academic nature, some of which have been prizewinning or commended entries in our annual Essay Prize. Copies can be purchased at our events and from our online shop. The price of each volume, excluding postage, is £5.00

Contents of Volume 5 – 2021 to 2022

  • Diagrams, Poems, Dragons, Puns: The Mortimer visual project in the late fourteenth century
    – Miguel C Fernandes
  • “An Elegant Cold Collation”: A Lost Letters Patent to Sudbury, 1397
    – Patrick McDonagh
  • A ‘notorious association’: Owain Glyndwr and Sir Edmund Mortimer
    – Gruffydd Aled Williams
  • Book Reviews

Contents of Volume 4 – 2020

  • A Task too great for One Dynasty? The Mortimer Earls of March, the de Burgh Inheritance and the Gaelic Nobility c.1370-c.1425
    – Simon Egan
  • Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March – A Study in Minority, Royal Service and ‘Proximity’ to the Crown in the late 14th century
    – Connor Williams
  • A Comparison of the Development of two Neighbouring Townships, Wolstanmind (Welsh) and Marton (English) in the medieval Marches of Wales between 1066 and 1542
    – Doreen Bowen
  • The Mortimers and Radnorshire (Part 2): Marriage and Inheritance – Radnor and Elfael
    – Philip Hume
  • Disputed Isle: The Foundations of the Mortimer Power in Ireland
    – Colin Veach

Contents of Volume 3 – 2019

  • What’s Yours is Mine: Cyfraith Hywel and the Law of the March
    – Sara Elin Roberts
  • The Mortimers and Radnorshire (Part 1): the Conquest of Maelienydd
    – Philip Hume
  • The Mortimer Retinue for War, 1277-1421
    – David Simpkin
  • Llywelyn Fawr, the Mortimers and Cwmhir Abbey: the Politics of Monastic Rebuilding
    – David Stephenson
  • Chronicles of the Mortimer Family, c1250–1450
    – Chris Given-Wilson

Contents of Volume 2 – 2018

  • Periphery to Core: Mortimer women and the negotiation of the king’s justice in the 13th century March of Wales
    – Emma Cavell
  • Fishing in Troubled Waters: Scottish Intrigue and Interference in Wales, 1315-1327
    –  Ethan Gould
  • The Loyal Mortimer: the career of Roger Mortimer, 2nd earl of March
    – Matt Raven
  • We Might be Prepared to Harm You: an investigation into some of the extortions of Hugh Despenser the Younger
    – Kathryn Warner

Contents of Volume 1 – 2017

  • Miraculous Marches: The Cult of Thomas de Cantilupe and the Mortimers
    – Ian Bass
  • Legal Culture in a Medieval Marcher Lordship: a Comparative Analysis of the Dyffryn Clwyd Court Rolls
    – Angharad Jones
  • Heartless, Witless, Graceless, Thriftless: Roger Mortimer and the Scots, 1326-1328
    – Ethan Gould
  • Networking the March: A History of Hereford and its Region from 11th-13th centuries
    – Matthew Lampitt
  • How to Make an Entrance: an overlooked aspect of Native Welsh Masonry Castle Design
    – Craig Jones
  • The Mortimers in the Time of Richard II
    – Ian Mortimer