 1350 - 1381 (31 years)
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| Name |
Edmund "The Good" Mortimer |
| Title |
3rd Earl of March |
| Birth |
1 Feb 1350 |
Llangoed, Llyswen, Breconshire, Wales  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
27 Dec 1381 |
Dominican Friary, Cork, Ireland |
| Burial |
Wigmore Abbey, Herefordshire, England |
| Person ID |
I38759 |
Bob Juch's Tree |
| Last Modified |
31 Dec 2022 |
| Father |
2nd Earl of March Roger de Mortimer, b. 11 Nov 1328, Ludlow, Shropshire, England d. 26 Feb 1360, Rouvray, Yonne, Burgandy, France (Age 31 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Mother |
Philippa de Montacute, b. Abt 1332, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England d. 5 Jan 1382, Bisham, Berkshire, England (Age 50 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Marriage |
1350 |
Donyatt, Somerset, England |
| Family ID |
F14316 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Phillipa Plantagenet, b. 16 Aug 1355, Eltham Palace, Kent, England d. 5 Jan 1382, Ludlow Castle, Shropshire, England (Age 26 years) |
| Marriage |
15 Feb 1367 |
Queen's Chapel, Reading Abbey, Berkshire, England |
| Children |
| | 1. Elizabeth Mortimer, b. 12 Feb 1369, Usk, Monmouthshire, England d. 20 Apr 1417, Trotton, Sussex, England (Age 48 years) [natural] |
| | 2. 4th Earl of March Roger Mortimer, b. 11 Apr 1374 d. 20 Jul 1398, Battle of Kells, Ireland (Age 24 years) [natural] |
| | 3. Edmund Mortimer, b. 9 Nov 1376, Ludlow Castle, Shropshire, England d. Abt 1409, Harlech Castle, Harlech, Merionteithshire, Wales (Age 32 years) [natural] |
| | 4. Philippa Mortimer [natural] |
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| Family ID |
F14219 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
31 Dec 2022 |
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| Notes |
- Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March, b. 1342. This nobleman, at the time of his father's death, was in minority, yet, by reason of his singular knowledge and parts, he was employed at eighteen years of age to treat with the commissioners of the King of France, touching a peace betwixt both realms. In the 1st Richard II [1377], he was sworn to the privy council and, in two years afterwards, constituted lord lieutenant of Ireland, in which government he d. in 1381. His lordship m. the Lady Philippa Plantagenet, dau. and heir of Lionel, Duke of Clarence (by Elizabeth, his wife, dau. and heir of William, son and heir of John de Burgh, Earl of Ulster), by whom he had issue, Roger, his successor; Edmund (Sir), m. the dau. of Owen Glendour, and his issue is said to have settled in Scotland; John (Sir), who, being arraigned in parliament, temp. Henry VI, for treasonable speeches, was condemned and executed; Elizabeth, m. 1st to Henry Percy, the celebrated Hotspur, and 2ndly, to Thomas, Lord Camois, K.G.; Philippa, m. 1st to John, Earl of Pembroke, 2ndly, to Richard, Earl of Arundel, and 3rdly to John Poynings, Lord St. John.
His lordship d. in 1381, and was s. by his eldest son, Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage Ltd, London, England, 1883, p. 384, Mortimer, Barons Mortimer, of Wigmore, Earls of March]
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