March

The March was the Mortimer lordship on the Welsh border, anchored by Wigmore and Ludlow castles. In 1337 its lands remained forfeit after Earl Roger Mortimer was seized at Nottingham and executed in 1330.

His grandson Roger recovered the lordship in 1342. A later Roger was named Richard II's heir presumptive in the 1380s. The male line ended in 1424, and the estates passed through Anne Mortimer to the House of York, supporting its claim during the Wars of the Roses. The Laws in Wales Acts of 1535 to 1542 ended the lordship's separate jurisdiction.