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Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, was born at New Forest, Westmeath, one of his family's Irish estates, [1] on 6 November 1391, the son of Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March, and Eleanor Holland. He had a younger brother, Roger (1393 – c. 1413), and two sisters: Anne, who married Richard, Earl of Cambridge, younger son of the Duke of York ...
Mar 25, 2024 · 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
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Edmund de Mortimer, 5th Earl of March and 7th Earl of Ulster (6 November 1391 - 18 January 1425), eldest son of the fourth earl, became in turn heir presumptive to King Richard II. Following Richard's deposition by the first Lancastrian king Henry IV in 1399, he became the focus of plots against the House of Lancaster.
The plot had been revealed to the king by Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, the main subject of the scheme, who also claimed he had no knowledge of it whatsoever. The figure of Edmund Mortimer, dramatised in Shakespeare’s Henry V, has fascinated historians ever since.
Apr 27, 2021 · Edmund de Mortimer, 5th Earl of March and Ulster was born in Ireland in 1391, the son of Roger Mortimer [1] and Eleanor Holland. [2] Along with his father's title and estates, he succeeded to his father's claim to the crown of England. When, in 1399, King Richard ll was deposed and the crown seized by Henry IV, the young Edmund de Mortimer and ...
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Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March. Born: November 6, 1391. New Forest, Hampshire, England. Died: January 18, 1425. Trim, County Meath, Ireland (Age 33) Mortimer in History. Edmund Mortimer was a member of the prestigious Mortimer family of the Welsh marshes. The Mortimers had been powerful lords on the English-Welsh border for many years, and ...
views 3,571,062 updated. Edmund de Mortimer, 5th earl of March and 3d earl of Ulster, 1391–1425, English nobleman, son of Roger de Mortimer, 4th earl of March. He succeeded (1398) his father not only as earl of March and Ulster but as heir presumptive to the childless Richard II. However, after the usurpation (1399) of the throne by the ...
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