Description:

Joan, wife of Roger de Mortuo Mari, Earl of March

Writ, 24 October 1356.

Inq, …after All Souls, November 1356 (torn).

[Includes:]

Walterston [Walterstone]. The manor, and a moiety of the town and land of Ewyas in the March of Wales, held of the king in chief by service of half a knight’s fee. She held the aforesaid manors and moiety in fee tail of the gift of Geoffrey de Genevill and Maud his wife, by fine levied in the king’s court, to Peter de Genevill her father, whose heir she was, and the heirs of his body. […]

She died on 19 October last (1356). Roger de Mortuo Mari [Mortimer], now earl of March, son and heir of Edmund de Mortuo Mari, son and heir of the said Joan, aged 28 years and more, is her heir.

[Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward III (X, p307)]

Observations:

In typescript records of ancient documents relating to Herefordshire; Vol 11, p74-75