Mortemer, Seine-Maritime
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Mortemer is a town and commune of the Seine-Maritime département, in northwestern France.
Mortemer was a fief on the north-eastern border of medieval Normandy in Bray.
Site of the battle of Mortemer in February 1054.
This fief and town is the source of the medieval family name: the nature of this family's relations was confusing to Robert of Torigni, one of the authors of the Gesta Normannorum Ducum. He says that Roger of Mortemer was the brother of "William, later earl of Surrey". But possibly Robert missed out a generation, as he did in dealing with the family history of the Montgomerys.
The Gesta Normannorum Ducum of William of Jumièges and Robert of Torigni, edited and translated by M. C. Van Houts, Clarendon Press Oxford, 1995.
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