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Edmund was the last Earl of March of the Mortimer family. Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, 7th Earl of Ulster , was an English nobleman and a potential claimant to the throne of England. A great-great-grandson of King Edward III of England, he was heir presumptive to King Richard II of England when he was deposed in favour of Henry IV.
Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, 7th Earl of Ulster (6 November 1391 – 18 January 1425), was an English nobleman and a potential claimant to the throne of England. A great-great-grandson of King Edward III of England, he was heir presumptive to King Richard II of England (both his paternal first cousin twice removed and maternal half grand-uncle) when he was deposed in favour of Henry IV ...
Among the most notable members of the family were Roger Mortimer (d. 1330), Earl of March; Edmund (d. 1381), 3rd earl, husband of Philippa, daughter and heiress of Lionel of Antwerp, Duke of Clarence (second surviving son of Edward III); and his grandson Edmund (d. 1425), 5th earl, who had by the laws of ordinary descent a better claim to the ...
Stafford, Anne (c. 1400–1432) Duchess of Huntington and Exeter. Name variations: Anne Holland; Anne Mortimer; countess of March. Born around 1400; died on September 20, 1432; daughter of Edmund Stafford, 5th earl of Stafford, and Anne Plantagenet (1383–1438); married Edmund Mortimer, 5th earl of March, about 1415; married John Holland (1395–1447), duke of Huntington (r. 1416–1447 ...
EDMUND DE MORTIMER, 5TH EARL OF MARCH AND ULSTER, son of Roger Mortimer, the 4th Earl, succeeded to his father's claim to the crown as well as to his title and estates on the death of the latter in Ireland in 1398. In the following year Richard II was deposed and the crown seized by Henry of Lancaster.
Brief Life History of Anne. When Anne Stafford was born about 1399, in Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Edmund Stafford 5th Earl of Stafford, was 22 and her mother, Anne of Gloucester, was 18. She married Edmund Mortimer 5th Earl of March, 7th Earl of Ulster about 1415, in Stafford, Staffordshire, England.
When Sir Edmund Mortimer was born on 9 November 1376, in Ludlow Castle, Shropshire, England, his father, Edmund Mortimer 3rd Earl of March, was 24 and his mother, Philippa of Clarence 5th Countess of Ulster, was 21. He married Catrin ferch Owain Glyndŵr in November 1402, in Harlech, Merionethshire, Wales, United Kingdom.
