Philip Hume FSA: The Spares’: Church, Army, and Administration

This talk will explore some of the options for the younger siblings of the Mortimer lords of Wigmore/earls of March, which included being ordained in the church, entering religious orders, military and administrative careers. During the frequent minorities of the child Earls of March in the fourteenth century, some played key roles in managing the Mortimer estates and protecting the interests of their nephews.
Philip Hume is the author of The Welsh Marcher Lordships I: Central and North (Logaston Press, March 2021; and editor of the Marcher Lordship series), On the Trail of the Mortimers’ (Logaston Press, 2016), On the trail of the Mortimers in the Welsh Marches (Logaston Press 2022), co-author of The Ludlow Castle Heraldic Roll (Logaston Press, 2019), and author of articles in various journals. Philip is the Secretary of the Mortimer History Society which supports and encourages the study of the Mortimers and the Welsh Marcher lordships.