Roger VI DE MORTIMER

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Earl of March and Ulster
• Fact: Declared heir to the throne by Richard II, King
• Fact: 4th Earl of March, 7th Earl of Ulster

Notes:

Name:
Roger De Mortimer, Knt., 4th Earl of March, 7th Earl of Ulster, Lord Mortimer of Wigmore, son and heir, was born at Usk on 11 Apr 1374, and succeeded to title and estates when seven years old. He declared heir presumptive to the Crown by King Richard II in October 1385, and was made a knight by the King on 23 Apr 1390. he was summoned to Parliament on 15 Oct 1397, and had a great popular welcome. he was careful to do nothing to justify the King Richard II's suspicions, but feeling his position to be somewhat insecure, he returned to Ireland, whither his enemy, the Duke of Surrey (his brother-in-law), whither his enemy, the Duke of Surrey (his brother-in-law), was ordered to follow and capture him. Ireland was Mortimer's chief care, but he possessed little power there, the estates having been devastated and engaged in petty campaigns against the native chieftains. Roger De Mortimer, Earl of March and of Ulster, while engaged in a rash attack on some of the Leinster clans, was killed by O'Brien's men on 20 July 1398, and was buried at Wigmore Abbey. The Wigmore chronicler says that he was riding unattended, attired in the Irish manner, in front of his army, and was unrecognized by those who killed him. The death of the heir to the throne at the hands of the Irish induced King Richard II to undertake his last fatal expedition to Ireland.

Roger married Alianor I DE HOLAND about 7 Oct 1388. Alianor (daughter of Sir Thomas DE HOLAND, K.G. and Alice FITZ ALAN) was born about 1373; died on 23 Oct 1405 in in childbed. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Anne DE MORTIMER was born on 27 Dec 1390; died in Sep 1411; was buried in King's Langley, Hertfordshire.
2. Edmund DE MORTIMER, IV was born on 06 Nov 1391 in New Forest; died in 1425 in Trim Castle, co. Meath; was buried in Austin Friars' Church, Clare, Suffolk.
3. Roger DE MORTIMER was born between 24 Mar and 23 Apr 1393 in Netherwood; died about 1409.
4. Eleanor DE MORTIMER was born about 1395; died in 1418.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Burial: Wigmore Abbey, Herefordshire
• Fact: 3rd Earl of March

Notes:

Name:
Edmund De Mortimer, Knt., 3rd Earl of march, Lord Mortimer of Wigmore, Lord of Trim and Connaught, Ireland, is the son and heir of Roger de Mortimer, Knt., by Philippe daughter of William de Montagu, 1st Earl of Salisbury. He was born at Llangoed in Llyswen, co. Brecon, Wales, on 1 Feb 1351/2, and succeeded his father in his tenth year. He became a ward of King Edward III, and was closely associated with the King's sons, especially Edward (the Black prince). By the death of his wife's father in 1368 he became lord of Ulster and of Connaught, as also lord of Clare in Suffolk 'jure uxoris', and was also styled Earl of Ulster. He was summoned to parliament from 8 Jan. 1370/1 as Earl of March. 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. The death of the Black Prince weakened his position. With the accession of King Richard II, power remained with Lancaster, but the next rightful heir was Mortimer's own son. He was appointed lieutenant of Ireland on 22 Oct 1379, it being convenient for the party of Lancaster to get him out of the country. Ulster, Connaught, and Meath, over which he bore nominal sway, had long been the most disorderly districts. Edmund De Mortimer, Earl of March, having caught cold in crossing a river in winter time in Munster, died testate in the Dominican Friary at Cork on 27 Dec 1381.

Edmund married Philippa Of CLARENCE on abt. May 1368 in Queen's Chapel, Reading Abbey, Berkshire. Philippa (daughter of Lionel 'of Antwerp' Of CLARENCE and Elizabeth DE BURGH) was born on 16 Aug 1355 in Eltham Palace, Kent, England; died in on or bef. Jan 1377/8. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Burial: Wigmore, Hertford, ENGL
• Fact: Countess of Ulster
• Fact 1: Will dated 21 Nov 1378 and proved 6 Dec 1379
• Death: 01 Jan 1382