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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 ...
Oct 27, 2023 · ↑ Cawley, Medieval Lands: EDMUND III Mortimer; ↑ When Richard resigned crown with no issue on 29 Sep 1399, the rightful heir was Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, whose father Roger died the previous year. The throne was usurped by Richard and Philippa's first cousin, Henry Bolingbroke, which later precipitated the Wars of the Roses.
Elizabeth Mortimer was an ancestor of the third Queen Consort of Henry VIII, Jane Seymour. Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March: 11 April 1374: 20 July 1398: He married Lady Alianore Holland, by whom he had four children, Anne, Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, Eleanor, and Roger. The House of York's claim to the throne was through his eldest ...
Apr 27, 2022 · Genealogy profile for Anne Stafford, Countess of March ... Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March. second cousin once removed. John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter. husband.
Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Edmund de Mortimer, 5th Earl of March and 7th Earl of Ulster (6 November 1391 18 January 1425)[1] was, while a young child, briefly heir presumptive to King Richard II of England.
Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, was the great-grandson of Lionel of Antwerp, Duke of Clarence, second surviving son of King Edward III, and his claim to the throne was thus superior, should one allow female intermediaries (he was the grandson of Philippa of Clarence, daughter of Lionel), to that of Henry V and his father, Henry IV, who derived their claim from Henry IV's father, John of ...
Edmund de Mortimer, 5th Earl of March and 7th Earl of Ulster (6 November 1391 – 18 January 1425) was, while a young child, briefly heir presumptive to King Richard II of England. Family Edmund was son of Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March by Eleanor de Holland , daughter of Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent and Alice Fitzalan .
