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	Mortimer - LoveToKnow 1911
		The Mortimers of Wigmore, earls of March and Ulster, were of a stock akin to the dukes of Normandy and to many great houses of the duchy.
		During the war with the Despensers, the force of the Mortimers was cast against the king and his favourites, but after Bridgnorth Castle had been taken and fired, uncle and nephew submitted and suffered a harsh captivity for two years in the Tower of London.
		Edmund, 4th earl of March, was six years old at his father's death, and was, for the king's party, the heir-presumptive of the kingdom.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Mortimer (1831 words)

	Edmund Mortimer - Definition, explanation
		Edmund Mortimer (November 9, 1376 - 1409?), was the second son of the 3rd Earl of March by his wife Philippa Plantagenet, and is the best-known of the various Edmund Mortimers.
		Edmund was a supporter of his first cousin once removed, Henry Bolingbroke, despite having a potentially better claim to the throne of England (Edmund's grandfather was the second surviving son of Edward III while Bolingbroke's father (John of Gaunt) was the third surviving son).
		Glyndwr and Mortimer plotted with Henry Percy, "Hotspur," to depose Henry IV and divide the kingdom of England and Wales in three.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/e/ed/edmund_mortimer.php (289 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Edmund Mortimer
		A grandson of Lionel of Antwerp and thus descended from King Edward III of England, he was born at Ludlow Castle in Shropshire.
		Glyndwr and Mortimer plotted with Henry Percy to depose Henry IV and divide the kingdom of England and Wales in three.
		He should not be confused with his nephew, Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March[?], or with his father, Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March[?].
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/ed/Edmund_Mortimer (207 words)

	Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March - Definition, explanation
		Being an infant at the death of his father, Edmund, as a ward of the crown, was placed by Edward III of England under the care of William of Wykeham and Richard Fitzalan, 10th Earl of Arundel.
		Edmund's son Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March would become heir presumptive to the English crown during the reign of Richard II.
		He was a member of the committee appointed by the Peers to confer with the Commons in 1373?the first instance of such a joint conference since the institution of representative parliaments on the question of granting supplies for John of Gaunt's war in France.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/e/ed/edmund_mortimer__3rd_earl_of_march.php (769 words)

	Sir Edmund de Mortimer — FactMonster.com
		Mortimer, Sir Edmund de, 1376–1409, English nobleman; youngest son of Edmund de Mortimer, 3d earl of March.
		In 1398 when young Edmund, the 5th earl, nephew of Sir Edmund, succeeded to the title while still a minor, Sir Edmund became the most powerful representative of his family.
		However, Glendower began to suffer defeats, Mortimer's own effectiveness declined, and he died when besieged by royal forces at Harlech.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0834131.html (204 words)

	The Battle of Pilleth
		Edmund Mortimer was one of the Marcher barons of Henry IV who had their power base around Wigmore, Herefordshire.
		Edmund Mortimer’s force arrived in the area on 21 June and it is believed that they spent the night at nearby Whitton before assembling at the foot of Bryn Glas hill on the morning of the 22nd.
		Mortimer’s army was the larger (2000 estimate) but was handicapped by the need to scale the hill and a switching of allegiances during the battle, which led to a disastrous defeat with some 800 killed and Mortimer and other notables captured.
	www.friendsofpilleth.co.uk /battle.htm (311 words)

	Earls of March
		EDMUND DE MORTIMER (1351—1381), 3rd earl of March, was son of Roger, 2nd earl of March, by his wife Philippa, daughter of William Montacute[?], 1st earl of Salisbury.
		ROGER DE MORTIMER, 4th earl of March and Ulster (1374— 1398), son of the 3rd earl, succeeded to the titles and estates of his family when a child of seven, and a month afterwards he was appointed lord-lieutenant of Ireland, his uncle Sir Thomas Mortimer acting as his deputy.
		EDMUND DE MORTIMER (1391—1425), 5th earl of March and Ulster, son of 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.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ma/Marcher_Lords.html (2994 words)

	Edmund Mortimer
		The name Edmund Mortimer was held by several members of the powerful Marcher family of Mortimer.
		Glyndwr and Mortimer plotted with Henry Percy to depose Henry IV and divide the kingdom of England and Wales in three.
		He should not be confused with his nephew, Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March[?], or with his father, Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March[?].
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ed/Edmund_Mortimer.html (182 words)

	BBC - History - Edmund Mortimer (1376 - 1409) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Edmund was of a family thought by some to have a claim to the English throne.
		The senior Edmund had married Philippa, a daughter of the second son of Edward III, and it was through this line that some held the Earls of March had a better right to the throne of England than the descendants of Edward's fourth son, John of Gaunt.
		It was in the defence of Harlech that Edmund Mortimer died.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/mortimer_edmund.shtml (564 words)

	Mortimer, Sir Edmund de - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Mortimer, Sir Edmund de 1376-1409, English nobleman; youngest son of Edmund de Mortimer, 3d earl of March.
		In 1398 when young Edmund, the 5th earl, nephew of Sir Edmund, succeeded to the title while still a minor, Sir Edmund became the most powerful representative of his family.
		In 1402, however, Mortimer was captured by the rebellious Welshman Owen Glendower, and when the suspicious king forbade his ransom, Edmund entered an alliance with Glendower and married his daughter.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-mortmrs1ire1.html (389 words)

	Untitled Document
		However, his son Roger Mortimer was later knighted by the King when war with the French seemed imminent in 1346. Then in 1354 Edward III solemnly reversed the judgement made on Roger's father and restored to him the title of Earl of March before his death in 1360.
		In 1376 Edmund Mortimer I was impeached by Parliament, relieved of his office of Marshall of England, and arrested and imprisoned. However, in the following year, Parliament reversed the decision. He died in 1381, and our story comes closer to Martley.
		York's claim to the throne was because both his mother, Anne Mortimer, and his father, the Earl of Cambridge, were directly descended from Edward III. Henry's Vi's wife, Margaret, was determined to frustrate the Duke of York so that her only son would follow his father as King.
	www.martley.org.uk /people/themortimers.htm (1046 words)

	Edmund de Mortimer, 5th Earl of March - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		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.
		Edmund was also a younger brother of Anne Mortimer, who married their cousin Richard, Earl of Cambridge, another descendant of Edward III, through a younger son, Edmund of Langley.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edmund_de_Mortimer,_5th_Earl_of_March (494 words)

	de Mortimer Family Genealogy
		However, Edward IV was the grandson of Anne, Edmund's sister, so it could be said that a Mortimer did eventually become King of England.
		While there were a couple of occasions when Mortimer power ebbed and all the house's lordships were confiscated by the crown, its story is generally one of looking for the "main chance" to expand their authority and territory.
		Following Edward's death, Mortimer, acting as regent, was the virtual ruler of England, but he over-reached himself and aroused the anger of other barons.
	www.aritek.com /hartgen/htm/de-mortimer.htm (2143 words)

	Roger Mortimer from Wigmore, Herefordshire
		On June 27th 1316, Edmund Mortimer married Elizabeth de Badlesmere in the chapel of the manor house of Ernwood in Kinlet in Shropshire.
		Shockingly Lady Mortimer was arrested too and her possessions removed as well, taken by guard to be imprisoned in Hampshire accompanied by six men of her household.
		On September 24th the flotilla landed in the mouth of the river Orwell in Suffolk a spot chosen because it was within striking distance of London, yet protected by rivers from the king's forces to the south, and as it was in territory controlled by the Earl of Norfolk, an enemy of the Despensers.
	www.hereford-heritage.com /RogerMortimer2.html (17212 words)

	Narberth - Part of a Greater Domain
		The house in question was the house of Mortimer, and its part of the county was Narberth.
		The wife he took in October 1306 was Joan de Genville and the marriage contract brought the Mortimers the massive castle of Ludlow and half the surrounding lordship.
		In 1373, the inheritance gained by Edmund Mortimer, the third Earl of March, probably represented the peak of Mortimer territorial possession.
	www.castlewales.com /narbrth1.html (1558 words)

	Edmund de Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Being an infant at the death of his father, Edmund, as a ward of the crown, was placed by Edward III of England under the care of William of Wykeham and Richard Fitzalan, 10th Earl of Arundel.
		Edmund's son Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March would become heir presumptive to the English crown during the reign of Richard II.
		He was a member of the committee appointed by the Peers to confer with the Commons in 1373?the first instance of such a joint conference since the institution of representative parliaments on the question of granting supplies for John of Gaunt's war in France.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edmund_de_Mortimer,_3rd_Earl_of_March (728 words)

	TimeRef - Medieval History Timelines - 10 Year Overview
		Mortimer's army was badly defeated and Mortimer was captured.
		Edmund was the youngest son of Edmund Mortimer, the 3rd Earl of March and Philippa Plantagenet.
		Edmund was directly descended from Edward III via Lionel and when Richard II died became the true heir to the English throne but Henry IV took the throne for himself.
	www.btinternet.com /~timeref/y101400.htm (1274 words)

	History of the Mortimer Family
		From the Mortimers of Richard's Castle sprang the barony of Mortimer of Zouche.
		This was the Mortimer family of Wigmore, later Earls of March.
		Although he confiscated all the Mortimer estates on the execution of the 1st Earl of March, he restored the last of them, as well as the earldom, in 1356 to the earl's grandson, another Roger.
	www.mortimer.co.uk /family/medieval.htm (1919 words)

	Monarchs
		of England, VI of Scotland Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset (1404-1455) Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset executed (1436-1464) Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset, executed (d.
		Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York (1341-1402) Edward Aumerle, Earl of Rutland, 2nd Duke of York (1373?-1415) Richard, Earl of Cambridge, executed (d.
		Edward IV, married Elizabeth Woodville (1442-1483) Elizabeth, married Henry VII Edmund, Earl of Rutland, murdered (1443-1460) George, Duke of Clarence, murdered by Richard III (1449-1478)
	www.ndsu.nodak.edu /ndsu/maune/ShakespearePages/Monarchs.html (349 words)

	Characters: Henry IV Part One
		Edmund Mortimer, earl of March: One of the rebels against the king, Edmund Mortimer is the son of Glendower and, according to Shakespeare, the brother-in-law of Hotspur and claimant to the throne of England; however, for the record, it was Edmund Mortimer’s nephew, a younger Edmund, who could claim these titles.
		Richard Scroop: The archbishop of York, Richard Scroop is an ally of the Percys in the rebellion against the king.
		Lady Mortimer: Wife of Edmund Mortimer and daughter of Glendower, Lady Mortimer speaks no English and her husband speaks no Welsh.
	www.bard.org /education/resources/shakespeare/hen41char.html (656 words)

	Edmund Mortimer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The name Edmund Mortimer was held by several members of the powerful Marcher family of Mortimer, including
		however, the best-known of the Edmund Mortimers was the second son of the 3rd Earl:
		However, at some time during the siege of Owen's stronghold of Harlech by Henry, Prince of Wales, Mortimer died, possibly of plague.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edmund_Mortimer (254 words)

	My Family
		Edmund MORTIMER (Earl of March 3d) died in 1381.
		Parents: Edmund MORTIMER (Earl of March 3d) and Philippa of Ulster (Countess).
		Edmund MORTIMER (Earl of March) died in 1425.
	sneakers.pair.com /roots/b117.htm (728 words)

	The Final Campaign of Prince Llywelyn
		According to the Welsh Chronicles "Roger Mortimer (of Chirk and Pencelli) and Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn, and with them the king's host [the Montgomery army], came upon them without warning; and then Llywelyn and his foremost men were slain on Friday 11 December".
		The archbishop in his letter speaks of Edmund Mortimer's valets, who were present at the event, hearing Llywelyn call for a priest before he was killed.
		And Edmund Mortimer said to me that he had heard from his servants who were at the death that he asked for a priest before his death, but without sure certainty we will do nothing.
	www.castlewales.com /lly2_rem.html (2611 words)

	Edmund Mortimer (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Edmund Mortimer was brother in law to Henry Percy (Hotspur) They were angered by the coup d'etat mounted by Henry IV; however, at first they sided with the new king when Glyn Dwr's revolt broke out.
		After the Battle of Pilleth in 1402 Mortimer was captured by Glyn Dwr, married his daughter and joined his team.
		The marriage meant that later Mortimers were held in great respect by the Welsh, to whom genealogy meant a great deal.
	www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk /vtc/ngfl/eng/multilinks/owain_glyndwr/mort.htm (320 words)

	Chapter 51.
		Edmund Mortimer was descended from Lionel of Clarence, who was the third son of Edward III.
		This Sir Edmund was an uncle of the young Earl of March, whom Henry kept in prison at Windsor.
		Henry was quite pleased that Sir Edmund should be a captive, because he was afraid that he might at some time try to put his nephew on the throne.
	digital.library.upenn.edu /women/marshall/england/england-51.html (1131 words)

	The War of the Roses
		Edmund is named as Richard's heir because he is the son of Lionel, the next surviving son of Edward III after Edward the Black Prince.
		Edward IV is descended from Edmund Langley, first Duke of York, a younger son of Edward III.
		Thus, Edward IV is directly descended from Edward III's fifth royal son (Edmund first Duke of York), and is related through the maternal line to Edward III's second son (Lionel Duke of Clarence).
	www.english.uga.edu /~cdesmet/rosewar.htm (1362 words)

	thePeerage.com - Edmund de Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March and others
		Edmund de Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March was born on 1 February 1352 in Llangoed, Llyswen, Breconshire, Wales.
		He was the son of Roger de Mortimer, 2nd Earl of March.
		Owain Tudur was taken prisoner by the Yorkists at the Battle of Mortimers Cross, 2nd.
	www.thepeerage.com /p10200.htm (1981 words)

	reagenealogy - pafn141 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		It is much more likely that the majority of the Mortimers alive today descend from the younger sons of the younger sons of the earlier (pre 1300) Mortimer branches.
		In addition, given the fact that quite a number of people have been conceived on the wrong side of the sheets in the last millenium, it is just as likely that anybody bearing the name Mortimer is descended from Ralph Mortimer on his mother's side as his father's.
		Even if every generation was legitmately conceived, such is the paucity of documents in the period between the thirteenth and the mid-sixteenth centuries that it is extremely unlikely that anyone called Mortimer could prove an unbroken descent in the male line from the medieval family.
	members.cox.net /garyrea/pafn141.htm (1876 words)

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