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Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, 7th Earl of Ulster (6 November 1391 – 18 January 1425), was an English nobleman and a potential claimant to the throne of England. A great-great-grandson of King Edward III of England , he was heir presumptive to King Richard II of England (both his paternal first cousin twice removed and maternal half ...
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Edmund Mortimer, 5th earl of March (born November 6, 1391, New Forest, Hampshire, England—died January 19, 1425, Ulster, Ireland) friend of the Lancastrian king Henry V and an unwilling royal claimant advanced by rebel barons. Edmund was the great-grandson of Lionel, duke of Clarence, the second surviving son of Edward III, and was considered ...
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Aug 4, 2022 · 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?
On 20 July 1398, at the age of only 24, Mortimer was slain in a skirmish at Kells. Wigmore Castle, Herefordshire. Edmund de Mortimer, 5th Earl of March and 7th Earl of Ulster (6 November 1391 - 18 January 1425), eldest son of the fourth earl, became in turn heir presumptive to King Richard II.
EDMUND DE MORTIMER, 5TH EARL OF MARCH AND ULSTER, son of Roger Mortimer, the 4th Earl , succeeded to his father's claim to the crown as well as to his title and estates on the death of the latter in Ireland in 1398. In the following year Richard II was deposed and the crown seized by Henry of Lancaster.
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Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March. Born: November 6, 1391. New Forest, Hampshire, England. Died: January 18, 1425. Trim, County Meath, Ireland (Age 33)
Edmund de Mortimer, 5th earl of March and 3d earl of Ulster, 1391–1425, English nobleman, son of Roger de Mortimer, 4th earl of March. He succeeded (1398) his father not only as earl of March and Ulster but as heir presumptive to the childless Richard II.