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On 30 November 1402, he married Glyndŵr's daughter Catrin, and on 13 December 1402 proclaimed in writing that he had joined Glyndŵr in his efforts to restore King Richard II to the throne, if alive, and if dead, to make his nephew Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, King of England.
Aug 4, 2022 · 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.
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.
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.
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).
Upon Roger Mortimer's death in 1398, this claim passed to his son and heir, Anne's brother Edmund, Earl of March. In 1399, Richard II was deposed by Henry IV, of the House of Lancaster, making Edmund Mortimer a dynastic threat to the new king, who in turn placed both Edmund and his brother Roger under royal custody.
Roger Mortimer, 2nd earl of March (born November 11, 1328, Ludlow, Shropshire, England—died February 26, 1360, Rouvray, near Avallon, Burgundy [now in France]) was a leading supporter of Edward III of England. The eclipse of the Mortimer family’s power following the death of the 1st Earl of March proved no more than temporary.
