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Oct 18, 2015 · Roger de Mortimer, 3rd Baron Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, was an English nobleman and powerful Marcher lord who gained many estates in the Welsh Marches and ...
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The Mortimers were a powerful aristocratic family of the Welsh Marches, centered around Wigmore Castle in Herefordshire, who from the fourteenth century held the title of Earl of March.
ROGER DE MORTIMER, 4TH EARL OF OF MARCH AND ULSTER (1374-1398), son of Edmund Mortimer, the 3rd Earl, succeeded to the titles and estates of his family when a child of seven, and a month afterwards he was appointed lord-lieutenant of Ireland, his uncle Sir Thomas Mortimer acting as his deputy.
Roger de Mortimer, 4th Earl of March and 6th Earl of Ulster, was an English nobleman with a significant claim to the English throne as the heir presumptive to King Richard II, being the monarch’s first cousin once removed through his mother.
Roger de Mortimer, 4th earl of March and 2d earl of Ulster, 1374–98, English nobleman. He succeeded (1381) his father, Edmund de Mortimer, 3d earl of March, and was brought up as a royal ward. In 1385 the childless Richard II proclaimed him heir presumptive to the throne.
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The Oxford Companion to British History. Mortimer, Roger, 4th earl of March and Ulster (1374–98). Mortimer was a great-grandson of Edward III through his mother Philippa, sole heiress of Edward's second surviving son Lionel, duke of Clarence, whose wife was heiress to the earldom of Ulster.
