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Données personnelles Edmund de (Edmund "The Good" de) "The Good" Mortimer 3rd Earl of March & Ulster 

• Noms alternatifs: Edmund the good, The Good, Edmund "the Good" de (Edmund "the Good" de) Mortimer
• Le surnom est The Good.
• Il est né le 1 février 1352 dans Llangoed, Llyswen, Breconshire, Wales.Les sources 17, 18, 21, 22, 24, 25

  Attention: L'âge au mariage (15 février 1359) était inférieur à 16 ans (7).

• Il a été baptisé le 1 février 1352 dans Llyswen Church, Llyswen, Breconshire, Powys, Wales.Les sources 17, 22, 24, 25

  Brecknockshire

• Baptisé (à 8 ans ou plus tard) par l'autorité de la prêtrise de l'église SDJ le 1 juin 1925.
• Professions:
• 3rd Earl of March.Source 26
• Earl of March.Les sources 19, 20, 22, 23, 25, 27
• Earl of Ulster.Source 28
• Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.Source 18
• Lord Mortimer.Source 17
• Il est décédé le 27 décembre 1381 dans Dominican Friary, Cork, Ireland, il avait 29 ans.Les sources 17, 18, 21, 22, 24, 25

  Some sources state that he died on the 26th of December rather than the 27th.

• Il est enterré en l'an 1381 dans Wigmore, Herefordshire, England.Source 18
• Un enfant de Roger de Mortimer et Philipa de Montague
• Cette information a été mise à jour pour la dernière fois le 4 décembre 2022.

Famille de Edmund de (Edmund "The Good" de) "The Good" Mortimer 3rd Earl of March & Ulster

(1) Il est marié avec Philippa Plantagenêt.

Ils se sont mariés le 15 février 1359 à Queen's Chapel, Reading Abbey, Berkshire, England, il avait 7 ans.

Enfant(s):

1. Elizabeth de Mortimer  1371-1417 
2. Roger de Mortimer  1374-1398 
3. Philippa de Mortimer  1375-1401 
4. Edmund de Mortimer  1376-< 1411
5. John de Mortimer  ± 1378-1422

Evénement (Alt. Marriage) le 15 février 1369.Les sources 17, 18, 21

(2) Il est marié avec Nn Nn.

Ils se sont mariés

Enfant(s):

1. John [illegtimate ?] Mortimer  1378-1424 

Notes par Edmund de (Edmund "The Good" de) "The Good" Mortimer 3rd Earl of March & Ulster

He was the third Earl of March, Lord Mortimer of Wigmore, Lord of Trim and Connaught, Ireland.  Edmund was on the side of the Prince of Wales and the clergy against John of Gaunt and the Barons.  He was appointed lieutetnant of Ireland on October 22, 1379, this apparently a way for the house of Lancaster to get him out of England.

3rd Earl of March, Lord Mortimer of Wigmore, Lord of Trim and Connaught

Edmund was the Earl of March.

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[Jim Weber.FTW]

Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March, b. 1 Feb 1351/2, d. 27 Dec 1381; m. 1368 Philippa Plantagenet, daughter of Lionel of Antwerp, Duke of Clarence.
[Magna Charta Sureties]

Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

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EARLDOM OF ULSTER (VI, 5) 1368 (in right of wife)

EARLDOM OF MARCH (III) 1360

EDMUND (DE MORTIMER), EARL OF MARCH and LORD MORTIMER, son and heir, known as "The Good," born 1 February 1351/2, at Llangoed in Llyswen, co. Brecon, and baptized in Llyswen church the same day, his godparents being Humphrey de Bohun, son of William, Earl of Northampton, Sir Piers de Grandison, and Elizabeth, Countess of Northampton.  While yet an infant, in 1354, he was betrothed to Alice, daughter of Richard, Earl of Arundel, but he did not marry her.  He was in the charge of his mother in 1360, and custody of two-thirds of his lands was granted to the King's daughter Isabel.  In May 1368, being then married to, or about to marry, Philippe, daughter and heir of Lionel, Duke of Clarence, his castles, &c., in Ireland were delivered to him, though still under age, on condition that he found men-at-arms and archers for the safe-keeping of Ireland against the Irish.  By the death of his wife's father in the same year, he became in right of his wife lord of Ulster and of Connaught, as also lord of Clare in Suffolk, and patron of the priory there, and was styled Earl of Ulster in addition to his usual style.  His wife having proved her age, he had livery of her great inheritance 24 August 1362.  Some time during the year 1369 he served against the French, but was in England in September.  In the same year he was ordered to put his castles in Wales in a state of defence.  In 1370, &c., he is called the King's "son" (ward).  He was summoned to Parliament 8 January 1370/1 as EARL OF MARCH, and was a trier of petitions from that year onwards.  On 24 February 1371/2 he entered into a covenant to serve with the King's army in France with twenty knights (including himself) and sixty esquires.  In August 1372 he was one of the sureties for the King for a loan from the Bardi.  On 6 January 1372/3, although still under age, his father's lands were restored to him, the King having taken his homage and fealty, and in the same month he was appointed on the embassy to France to treat of peace.  In May 1373 he was chief guardian of the truce with Scotland, and on 6 February 1373/4 he is styled Edmund de Mortimer, Earl of March and Ulster, Marshal of England.  In 1375 he was engaged in the expedition to Brittany (to aid John de Montfort in his claim to the Duchy) which captured St. Mathieu.  In the same year he gave Chelmarsh to Wigmore Abbey to found a chantry.  In the domestic politics of the time Mortimer was on the side of the Prince of Wales and the clergy against John of Gaunt and the Barons.  He favoured the popular opposition in the Good Parliament of 1376, when Latimer and others were impeached, Sir Piers de la Mare, steward of the Earl of March, being then Speaker of the Commons.  In April 1376 the Earl was one of the twelve-magnates appointed to confer with the Commons, and in the same year was on the permanent council attending the King.  In February 1376/7 he was appointed on a commission of oyer and terminer, and after the accession of Richard II, on 22 June 1377, he was appointed on 20 July to the new Council of Rcgency.  At the King's Coronation on 16 July he was appointed to carry the great gilt spurs and the second sword before the King, as deputy of the Earl of Pembroke, a minor.  In January 1377/8 he was on a commission to redress infractions of the Scottish truce, and on 20 January to inspect Border fortresses.  On 20 June 1378 he was one of the commissioners who arranged with the Scots for the custody of the Marches.  The truce did not last long, and on 14 February 1378/9 he was a commissioner to treat for a peace with Scotland.  He was appointed King's Lieutenant in Ireland, during pleasure, 22 October 1379, and arrived in Ireland 15 May 1380.

He married, in 1368, Philippe, only daughter and heir of Lionel, DUKE OF CLARENCE, 2nd son of EDWARD III, by Elizabeth, daughter and heir of William (DE BURGH), EARL OF ULSTER, and- lord of Connaught in Ireland and of Clare in England.  She, who was born at Eltham, 16 August 1355, and baptized there, died on or before 7 January 1377/8, and was buried at Wigmore.  He died 27 December 1381, in the Dominican friary at Cork, and was buried there, but afterwards was taken to Wigmore, to which abbey he had been a liberal benefactor, having rebuilt the Abbey church.
[Complete Peerage VIII:445-8, XIV:466, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

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Edmund de Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March and jure uxoris Earl of Ulster

(1351? - 27 December 1381) was son of Roger Mortimer, 2nd Earl of March, by his wife Philippa, daughter of William Montacute, 1st Earl of Salisbury.

Early life
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 in 1368 at the age of 17 to the 13 year old Philippa, the only child of Lionel of Antwerp, Duke of Clarence, second son of Edward III.

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, 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; 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.

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 Commons in this parliament was March's steward, Peter de la Mare, 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 Marshall of England. March chose instead to resign the post.

Reign of Richard II
On the accession of Richard II, a minor, in 1377, the Earl became a member of the standing council of government; though as father of the heir-presumptive to the crown he wisely abstained from claiming any actually administrative office.  The most powerful person in the realm was, however, the king's uncle John of Gaunt, whose jealousy of March led to the acceptance by the latter of the Lieutenancy 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 turbulency of the chieftains of the south, March died 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:

Elizabeth, married Henry Percy "Hotspur", son of the Earl of Northumberland.  She may have later married Thomas de Camoys, 1st Baron Camoys[2]
His eldest son, Roger, succeeded him as 4th Earl of March and Ulster
His second son, Edmund played an important part, in conjunction with his brother-in-law Hotspur, in the fortunes of Owain Glyndwr
Philippa, became the second wife of Richard Fitzalan, 11th Earl of Arundel and then married John of St. John

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