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Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March and Earl of Ulster (1 February 1352 – 27 December 1381) was an English magnate who was appointed Lieutenant of Ireland but died after only two years in the post.
Jun 24, 2023 · Edmund de Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March and jure uxoris Earl of Ulster (1 February 1352 – 27 December 1381) was son of Roger Mortimer, 2nd Earl of March, by his wife Philippa, daughter of William Montagu, 1st Earl of Salisbury and Catherine Grandison.
- Llyswen, Wales
- Philippa, 5th Countess of Ulster
- Wales
- "Edmund The Good"
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.
When Edmund Mortimer 3rd Earl of March was born on 1 February 1352, in Llyswen, Breconshire, Wales, his father, Sir Roger Mortimer 2nd Earl of March, was 23 and his mother, Philippa Montagu, was 19. He married Philippa 5th Countess of Ulster on 1 May 1368, in Reading, Berkshire, England.
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. But who was he? He was a significant claimant to the throne from a young age.
Ludlow Castle, birthplace of Edmund Mortimer. Edmund IV was born on 10 December 1376 at Ludlow Castle in Shropshire as the second son of Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March, by his wife Philippa Plantagenet. He was a grandson of Lionel of Antwerp, Duke of Clarence, thus a great-grandson of King Edward III of England.
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 ...
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