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Edmund Mortimer (rebel) Sir Edmund Mortimer IV (10 December 1376 – January 1409) was an English nobleman and landowner who played a part in the rebellions of the Welsh leader Owain Glyndŵr and of the Percy family against King Henry IV, at the beginning of the 15th century. [3] He perished at the siege of Harlech as part of these conflicts.
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 ...
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He was a significant claimant to the throne from a young age. Edmund’s story is fascinating, particularly with reference to the Princes in the Tower later in the century. In 1399, when Richard II was deposed by Henry IV, many would not have considered Henry to be the childless Richard’s heir. Henry was the son of Edward III’s third son ...
Edmund Mortimer, 5th earl of March (born November 6, 1391, New Forest, Hampshire, England—died January 19, 1425, Ulster, Ireland) was a friend of the Lancastrian king Henry V and an unwilling royal claimant advanced by rebel barons.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Mortimer's eldest son, Edmund de Mortimer (1306-1331) survived his father by only a year. Roger's grandson, Roger Mortimer, 2nd Earl of March (11 November 1328 - 26 February 1360) had the family estates and title restored to him in 1354 and accompanied Edward III on an expedition to France.
Edmund Mortimer. Born: November 9, 1376. Ludlow, Shropshire, England. Died: February, 1409. Harlech, Gwynedd, Wales (Age 32) Mortimer in History. Sir Edmund Mortimer was a member of the prominent Mortimer family of the Welsh marches and was the youngest son of Edmund Mortimer, third Earl of March. The younger Edmund was well taken care of by ...
The Mortimer family did not openly rebel against the king until the early 1320s when a majority of the nobility was up in arms, led by Edward II's cousin, the powerful Earl of Lancaster. It is most likely the rising power of to men named Hugh Despencer (father and son) within the king's government that drove the Mortimers into open rebellion.
