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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.
In 1425, York became even more significant with the death of his uncle Edmund, Earl of March. Edmund also had no children, so his lands and titles passed to his nephew Richard, Duke of York. With that immense wealth also came the Mortimer claim to the throne and all of the suspicion that engendered. The fate of the Princes in the Tower was ...
After his death his young son Edmund Mortimer 3rd Earl of March (1 February 1352 - 27 December 1381) became a ward of the crown and was married in 1368 at the age of 16 to the 13-year-old Philippa Plantagenet, the only child of Lionel of Antwerp, Duke of Clarence, the second son of Edward III.
Discover life events, stories and photos about Edmund Mortimer 3rd Earl of March (1352–1381) of Llyswen, Breconshire, Wales.
EDMUND DE MORTIMER, 3RD EARL OF MARCH, was son of Roger, 2nd Earl of March, by his wife Philippa, daughter of William Montacute, 1st Earl of Salisbury. Being an infant at the death of his father, Edmund, as a ward of the crown, was placed by Edward III under the care of William of Wykeham and Richard Fitzalan, Earl of Arundel.
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Mortimer, Edmund (1352–81), 3rd earl of March and 6th earl of Ulster , eldest son of Roger Mortimer, 2nd earl of March, and Philippa, daughter of William Montagu, earl of Salisbury, was great-grandson of Roger Mortimer (qv), 1st earl of March, and succeeded to the earldom on his father's death (February 1360).
