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  1. 4 days ago · Richard II had named Edmund Mortimer, the 5-year-old Earl of March, as his heir. The Mortimers, who descended from Edward III‘s second surviving son Lionel of Antwerp, thus had a strong claim to the throne, which was taken up by Richard, Duke of York, in the 1450s.

  2. 2 days ago · The Wars of the Roses were rooted in English socio-economic troubles caused by the Hundred Years' War (1337–1453) with France, as well as the quasi-military bastard feudalism resulting from the powerful duchies created by King Edward III.

  3. 5 days ago · As the revolt of Mortimer and the House of Percy grows, the Prince makes up with his father and is given the command of an army. He vows to fight and kill the rebel Hotspur, and orders Falstaff to recruit and lead a group of foot soldiers.

  4. 2 days ago · At first the kings of arms of this province used various titles with the addition 'of the north' or 'of the Norreis' (northmen), but in 1464 Thomas Holme was named Norroy and that name has been used ever since. Since 1943 the office of Ulster king of arms has been joined to that of Norroy.

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  5. 3 days ago · The said Lionel dying in the 42d of Edward III. left Philippa, his only daughter and heir, and on her marriage with Edmund Mortimer Earl of March, he became lord in her right. On the death of Edmund, the last Earl of March, in the 3d of Henry VI.

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  7. 2 days ago · Lionel, earl of Ulster, was made duke of Clarence in 1362 and died in 1368 leaving as his heir his daughter Philippe, wife of Edmund Mortimer, earl of March. Catherine de la Pole, to whom Lionel had apparently granted some rights in the manor, quitclaimed them to Edmund and Philippe in 1374.

  8. 1 day ago · The manor probably belonged to Walter Hacket in 1270, when he was summoned by the Bishop of Worcester to be at London with horse and arms 'for the honour of the Holy Church and peace of the land.' Some interest in Coston Hackett seems to have passed like Oddingley to the Mortimers, and was confirmed in 1284 by Edmund Mortimer to his brother Roger.

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