Edward III hanged Roger Mortimer without a trial and took his lands, and Mortimer's grandson won them back in 1354

Roger Mortimer and Queen Isabella removed Edward II and ruled for the boy king Edward III. In October 1330 Edward's men seized Mortimer at Nottingham Castle. He was condemned without trial for taking royal power and other "high misdemeanours." He was hanged at Tyburn on 29 November 1330, and his body hung for two days and nights. His estates were forfeited to the Crown. He was buried by the Grey Friars. His widow, Joan de Geneville, asked the king for the body so she could bury it at Wigmore. The king answered, "Let his body rest in peace." Later accounts say he relented^†. Joan was pardoned in 1336. Their grandson, also Roger, served Edward III in war. He received Radnor in 1342, Wigmore in 1343 and the rest of his lands in 1346 for service in France. He was a founding knight of the Garter in 1348. In 1354 he obtained a reversal of his grandfather's sentence and recovered the remaining forfeited estates. In 1355 he inherited his grandmother Joan's property, including Ludlow Castle, and was summoned to Parliament as Earl of March. Mortimer's descendants included Edward IV and Richard III. Wigmore Abbey, where the family was buried, is now a ruin.