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Edmund Mortimer, 5th earl of March was a friend of the Lancastrian king Henry V and an unwilling royal claimant advanced by rebel barons. Edmund was the great-grandson of Lionel, duke of Clarence, the second surviving son of Edward III, and was considered by some to be the heir presumptive of the
On 22 June 1402, Edmund's uncle, Sir Edmund Mortimer, son of the 3rd Earl, was captured by the Welsh rebel leader, Owain Glyndŵr, at the Battle of Bryn Glas. Henry IV accused Sir Edmund of deserting to Glyndŵr, refused to ransom him, and confiscated his property.
The eldest daughter of Roger Mortimer, Earl of March, Anne was born into a powerful aristocratic family. Her family’s bloodline made her a direct descendant of the Plantagenet Kings Edward I and Henry III through her mother, and, more significantly, a descendant of King Edward III through her grandparents, the Earl of March and his wife Philippa, daughter of Edward III’s second son, Lionel ...
Roger de Mortimer, 4th Earl of March and 6th Earl of Ulster (11 April 1374 – 20 July 1398)[1] was considered the heir presumptive to King Richard II. Roger Mortimer, born 11 April 1374 at Usk in Monmouthshire,[2] was the eldest son of Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March, by his wife Philippa Plantagenet, who as the daughter of Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence, and granddaughter of King ...
Edmund's son Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March would become heir presumptive to the English crown during the reign of Richard II. Political Advancement Mortimer, now styled Earl of March and Ulster, became Marshal of England in 1369, and was employed in various diplomatic missions during the next following years.
Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March was born in 1351. He died on 17 December 1381. He married Philippa Plantagenet of Clarence. Edmund de Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March and jure uxoris Earl of Ulster (1351? – 27 December, 1381) was son of Roger Mortimer, 2nd Earl of March, by his wife Philippa, daughter of William Montacute, 1st Earl of Salisbury.
On Roger Mortimer's death on 20 July 1398 his claim to the crown passed to his eldest son, Edmund. Anne Mortimer had two brothers, Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, and Sir Roger Mortimer, and a sister, Eleanor, who married Sir Edward Courtenay.
