Mortimer, Edmund de (1351/2 - 1381)

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Born / Died

Birth Date: 1352-02-01

Death Date: 1381-12-27

Parents

Mother: Montagu, Philippa ( - 1381/2)

Father: Mortimer, Roger de (1328 - 1359/60)

Marriages/Other Unions

Lionel, Philippa (1355 - 1381)
Type: marriage
Union began: 1368-5
Union ended: n.d.
Note: Betrothed in 1358

Offspring

From Lionel, Philippa (1355 - 1381)
Male offspring: Mortimer, Roger de (1374 - 1398)
From Lionel, Philippa (1355 - 1381)
Female offspring: Mortimer, Elizabeth de (1370/71 - 1417)
From Lionel, Philippa (1355 - 1381)
Female offspring: Mortimer, Philippa (1375 - 1401)
From Lionel, Philippa (1355 - 1381)
Male offspring: Mortimer, Edmund de (1376 - 1408/9)

Primary Title

3rd Earl of March

Titles

3rd Earl of March
Assumed: 1359/60-02-26
Vacated: 1381-12-27
Earl of Ulster
Assumed: 1368-10-17
Vacated: 1381-12-27

General Lands Note

Acquired Clare (East Anglia), Connaught and Ulster (Ireland) Lordships via wife, 1368

Details of Offices

	Began	Ended
Marshal of England, England	1373/4 -2 -6	1376
Privy Councillor, England	1376	1377
Member, Council of Regency, England	1377 -7 -20	1381 -12 -27 year uncertain
Chief Governor, Ireland	1380 -5	1381 -12 -26

Lands

Essex
Kent
Middlesex
Surrey

Event Naming Patron

Event Type	Date	Location	Troupe
Performance	1373 - 1373	Canterbury (Unknown), Canterbury, Kent	Earl of March's Entertainers
Performance	1378 - 1378	Canterbury (Unknown), Canterbury, Kent	Earl of March's Entertainers

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name	Patron	Troupe Type	# of events
Earl of March's Entertainers	Mortimer, Edmund de (1352 - 1381)	Entertainers/Minstrels	1
Earl of March's Entertainers	Mortimer, Edmund de (1352 - 1381)	Entertainers/Minstrels	1

Bibliographic Sources

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The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom. 1887–98 (8 vols); 1910–59 (13 vols). 6 vols. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1982
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.