Edmund "The Good" De MORTIMER b. 1 Feb 1351-1352 Llangoed, Llyswen, Breconshire, Wales d. 27 Dec 1381 Dominican Friary, Cork, Ireland: Our Family History

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Name	Edmund "The Good" De MORTIMER
Nickname	The Good
Birth	1 Feb 1351-1352	Llangoed, Llyswen, Breconshire, Wales
Gender	Male
FamilySearch ID	LB57-YKT
TitleOfNobility	[1]
	Earl of Ulster
TitleOfNobility	1379	Ireland [1]
	Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
Name	Edmond de Mortimer [1]
Name	Edmund [1]
Name	The Good
Occupation	[1]
	3rd Earl of March (8 Jan 1371- ); Lord Mortimer; 6th Earl of Ulster in right of his wife; Marshall of England (1369-76); Councillor of Regency (1377); Lieutenant of Ireland (1379); P.C.
_UID	C4A645E4B3734923BC2F853E0F309C8836C7
Death	27 Dec 1381	Dominican Friary, Cork, Ireland
Burial	Aft 27 Dec 1381	Wigmore, Herefordshire, England [1]
Person ID	I26933	Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
Last Modified	24 Nov 2024

Father	Sir Roger MORTIMER, 2nd Earl of March, b. 11 Nov 1328, Ludlow, Shropshire, England d. 26 Feb 1360, Rouvray, Côte-d'Or, Burgundy, France (Age 31 years)
Mother	Philippa MONTAGU, b. 1332, Somerset, England d. 5 Jan 1382, Bisham, Berkshire, England (Age 50 years)
Marriage	Bef 1352 [2]
Family ID	F536733185	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Philippa PLANTAGENET, Countess Of March, b. 16 Aug 1355, Eltham Palace, Kent, England d. 5 Jan 1382, County Cork, Ireland (Age 26 years)

Marriage 1359 Queens Chapel, Reading Abbey, Berkshire, England

NOTE MARRIED

Children

	1. Elizabeth MORTIMER, b. 12 Feb 1370-1371, Usk, Monmouthshire, England d. 20 Apr 1417, Trotton, Sussex, England (Age 46 years)
	2. Roger MORTIMER, 4th Earl of March, b. 11 Apr 1374, Usk, Monmouthshire, Wales d. 20 Jul 1398, Kells, County Meath, Ireland (Age 24 years)
	3. Countess Philippa DE MORTIMER, b. 21 Nov 1375, Ludlow Castle, Shropshire, England d. 26 Sep 1401, Halnaker, Sussex, England (Age 25 years)
	4. Sir Edmund MORTIMER, IV, b. 9 Nov 1376, Ludlow Castle, Shropshire, England d. Jan 1409, Harlech Castle, Harlech, Merioneithshire, Wales (Age 32 years)
	5. Sir John MORTIMER, b. Abt 1378, England d. 1424, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England (Age ~ 46 years)

Family ID F12004 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 24 Nov 2024

Notes

Edmund de Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March and jure uxoris Earl of Ulster (1 February 1352 – 27 December 1381) was son of Roger Mortimer, 2nd Earl of March, by his wife Philippa, daughter of William Montagu, 1st Earl of Salisbury and Catherine Grandison.
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. The position of the young earl, powerful on account of his possessions and hereditary influence in the Welsh marches, was rendered still more important by his marriage on 24 August 1369 at the age of 17 to the 14-year-old Philippa, the only child of the late Lionel of Antwerp, Duke of Clarence, the second son of Edward III.
Lionel's late wife, Elizabeth, had been daughter and heiress of William Donn de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster, and Lionel had himself been created Earl of Ulster before his marriage. Edmund inherited the title Earl of Ulster on Lionel's death. Therefore, the Earl of March not only represented one of the chief Anglo-Norman lordships in Ireland in right of his wife Philippa, but Philippa's line was also the second most senior line of descent in the succession to the crown, after Edward, the Black Prince and his son, King Richard II of England. John of Gaunt, younger brother of Prince Edward, had become the 1st Duke of Lancaster and thus the source of the House of Lancaster's claim to the throne.

This marriage had, therefore, far-reaching consequences in English history, ultimately giving rise to the claim of the House of York to the crown of England contested in the Wars of the Roses between the Yorks and the Lancasters; Edward IV being descended from the second adult son of Edward III as great-great-grandson of Philippa, countess of March, and in the male line from Edmund of Langley, the first Duke of York and the fourth adult son of Edward III. Edmund Mortimer's son Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March would become heir presumptive to the English crown during the reign of Richard II.

Political advancement
Mortimer, now styled Earl of March and Ulster, became Marshal of England in 1369, and was employed in various diplomatic missions during the next following years. 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.

He participated in the opposition to Edward III and the court party, which grew in strength towards the end of the reign, taking the popular side and being prominent in the Good Parliament of 1376 among the lords who supported the Prince of Wales and opposed the Court Party and John of Gaunt. The Speaker of the House of Commons in this parliament was March's steward, Peter de la Mare, (1294-1387 of Little Hereford, Hereford), who firmly withstood John of Gaunt in stating the grievances of the Commons, in supporting the impeachment of several high court officials, and in procuring the banishment of the king's mistress, Alice Perrers. March was a member of the administrative council appointed by the same parliament after the death of Edward, the Black Prince to attend the king and advise him in all public affairs.

Following the end of the Good Parliament its acts were reversed by John of Gaunt, March's steward was jailed, and March himself was ordered to inspect Calais and other remote royal castles as part of his duty as Marshal of England. March chose instead to resign the post.

Sent to govern Ireland
On the accession of Richard II, a minor, in 1377, the Earl became a member of the standing council of government; though as husband of the heir-presumptive to the crown he wisely refrained from claiming any actual administrative office. The richest and most powerful person in the realm was, however, the king's uncle John of Gaunt, whose jealousy led March to accept the office of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1379. March succeeded in asserting his authority in eastern Ulster, but failed to subdue the O'Neills farther west. Proceeding to Munster to put down the turbulent southern chieftains, March was killed at Cork on 27 December 1381. He was buried in Wigmore Abbey, of which he had been a benefactor, and where his wife Philippa was also interred.

Children
The earl had two sons and two daughters:
1. Elizabeth (1371– 1417), married Henry "Hotspur" Percy, son of the Earl of Northumberland, and had issue. She may have later married Thomas de Camoys, 1st Baron Camoys and had issue.
2. Roger (1374– 1398), succeeded him as 4th Earl of March and Ulster; married Alianore Holland and had issue.
3. Edmund (1376– 1409), married Catrin ferch Owain Glyndwr and had issue.
4. Philippa (1375– 1401), married firstly John Hastings, 3rd Earl of Pembroke; after his death in 1389 she became the second wife of Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel; she married thirdly Sir Thomas Poynings, 5th Baron St John of Basing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Mortimer,_3rd_Earl_of_March
-----------------------------------------------------------------------This memorial is dedicated to my ancestor Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March and Earl of Ulster. He was the son of Roger Mortimer,by his wife Philippa, daughter of
William Montagu, 1st Earl of Salisbury.
He was an infant when his father died. 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 position was powerful on account of his possessions and hereditary influence in the Welsh marches, it became more important by his marriage in 1368 at the age of 17 to the 13 year old Philippa, the only child of
Lionel of Antwerp, Duke of Clarence. He was the second son of King Edward III and his wife Philippa of Hainault. Lionel's wife, Elizabeth, was daughter and heiress of William Donn de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster, and Lionel had himself been created Earl of Ulster before his marriage. Edmund inherited the title Earl of Ulster on Lionel's death.
Therefore, the Earl of March not only represented one of the chief Anglo-Norman lordships in Ireland in right of his wife Philippa, but Philippa's line was also the second most senior line of descent in the succession to the crown, after Edward, the Black Prince and his son, King Richard II of England.
This marriage had far-reaching consequences in English history, ultimately giving rise to the claim of the House of York to the crown of England contested in the Wars of the Roses; Edward IV being descended from the second adult son of Edward III as great-great-grandson of Philippa, countess of March, and in the male line from Edmund of Langley, fourth adult son of Edward III.
Edmund's son Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March would become heir presumptive to the English crown during the reign of Richard II.
Edmund died at Cork on December 27, 1381. He was buried in Wigmore Abbey, of which he had been a benefactor, and where his wife Philippa was also interred.

Sources

[S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 24 Nov 2024), entry for Edmund "The Good" De MORTIMER, person ID LB57-YKT. (Reliability: 3).
[S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 24 Nov 2024), entry for Philippa Montagu, person ID K8RT-425. (Reliability: 3).