However, in May 2008, the High Court held that the Laws in Wales Act 1535 had abolished the jurisdictional franchise of Marcher Lord entirely and that Roberts had no such status.
The Lord of the Rings | Lord Byron | Lord Chancellor | Lord | Lord Mayor of London | Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Lord Kitchener | Lord Chamberlain | Lord President of the Council | Lord Lieutenant of Ireland | Lord Chancellor of Ireland | Lord & Taylor | Lord Mayor | Lord Deputy of Ireland | Lord of the Manor | Lord's Resistance Army | Lord's Prayer | Lord Peter Wimsey | Lord's Cricket Ground | Lord Nelson | Lord's | Lord Privy Seal | Lord Mayor of Dublin | Lord Howe Island | Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron | Lord Justice of Appeal | Lord Alfred Douglas | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | Lord President of the Court of Session |
Sir William Astley died in 1420 leaving his estate to his daughter who had married, in 1415, Reginald Grey, 3rd Baron Grey de Ruthyn from a dynasty of marcher lords who controlled the borderlands between England and Wales.
The route is named after the Mortimer family of ruling Marcher Lords, often titled Earl of March, whose rise through successive generations from Norman times through the medieval period helped to shape the history and geography of this area of the Welsh Marches.
Mortimer, grandson of Roger Mortimer, 1st Baron Mortimer and Maud de Braose, Baroness Mortimer, was born at Wigmore Castle, Herefordshire, England, the firstborn of Marcher Lord Edmund Mortimer, 2nd Baron Mortimer, and Margaret de Fiennes.
William de Braose, 3rd Lord of Bramber (fl. 1135–1179) was a 12th-century Marcher lord who secured a foundation for the dominant position later held by the Braose family in the Welsh Marches.