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Anne de Mortimer (27 December 1388 – c. 22 September 1411) was a medieval English noblewoman who became an ancestor to the royal House of York, one of the parties in the fifteenth-century dynastic Wars of the Roses.
8 min read. Inside the Church of All Saints in the small Hertfordshire village of Kings Langley lays the tomb of a young woman whose bloodline flows through 600 years of English monarchy. Anne de Mortimer was just 20 years old when she died in 1411.
Anne Mortimer, chief heir to the rights of her great-grandfather Lionel, duke of Clarence, married Richard of York, 2nd earl of Cambridge. She died, age 21, in September 1411, shortly after giving birth to her son Richard Plantagenet, 3rd duke of York, who would be the father of English kings Edward IV and Richard III.
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Anne de Mortimer was a medieval English noblewoman whose lineage became critical to the establishment of the House of York’s claim to the English throne during the Wars of the Roses.
Anne Mortimer, Countess of Cambridge. 27 December 1390 - 21 September 1411. Anne Mortimer, ancestress of the House of York from whom they derived their claim to the throne, was was born at New Forest, Westmeath, one of her family's Irish estates on 27 December 1390.
Oct 15, 2023 · Anne de Mortimer (27 December 1390 – c. 21 September 1411) was the mother of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, and the grandmother of King Edward IV and King Richard III.
Apr 26, 2015 · Genealogy for Anne de Mortimer, Countess of Cambridge (1388 - 1411) family tree on Geni, with over 250 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives.
