Ad
related to: edmund mortimer 2nd baron mortimer of wigmore
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Edmund returned to the March in 1282 as the new Baron Mortimer of Wigmore and immediately became involved in Welsh Marches politics. Together with his brother Roger Mortimer, 1st Baron Mortimer of Chirk , John Giffard , and Roger Lestrange , he devised a plan to trap his kinsman Llywelyn ap Gruffudd .
The title Baron Mortimer of Wigmore was created twice in the Peerage of England. The first time, Edmund Mortimer was summoned to parliament on 23 June 1295. The second baron, who was created Earl of March in 1328, was attainted in 1330 and the barony as well as the earldom was forfeited.
Roger de Mortimer, 2nd Baron Mortimer of Chirk died in 1334 without having obtained Chirk. John de Mortimer, 3rd Baron Mortimer of Chirk was an infant at his father's death. He failed to recover Chirk from the Earl of Arundel and surrendered his claim in 1359 to the Earl of Arundel, and subsequently lived in obscurity near Rochester in Kent ...
Edmund Mortimer, 2nd Baron Mortimer (1251–1304), married Margaret de Fiennes, the daughter of William II de Fiennes and Blanche de Brienne. Had issue, including Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March; Isabella Mortimer, died 1292. She married (1) John Fitzalan (1246–1272), [2] and (2) Robert de Hastang; [3] Margaret Mortimer, died 1297.
In September 1285, when she was fourteen or fifteen years old, Margaret married Edmund Mortimer, the second son of Roger Mortimer, 1st Baron Mortimer of Wigmore and his wife Maud de Braose. He had succeeded to his father's lands and barony in 1282 and was already a national hero after killing Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, his cousin, in battle. [3]
Edmund Mortimer, 2nd Baron Mortimer of Wigmore (1251 – 17 July 1304), married Margaret de Fiennes, daughter of William II de Fiennes and Blanche de Brienne, by whom he had issue, including Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March. Margaret Mortimer (died September 1297), married Robert de Vere, 6th Earl of Oxford, by whom she had one son.
Sir Edmund Mortimer (1302/1303 – 16 December 1331) was the eldest son of Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, and Joan de Geneville, 2nd Baroness Geneville. By his wife Elizabeth de Badlesmere , he was the father of Roger Mortimer, 2nd Earl of March .
Consequently, the Welsh wars broke out, and Mortimer, a professional soldier, was a captain in the victorious royal army. He and his brother, Edmund Mortimer, 2nd Baron Mortimer of Wigmore, have been implicated in the plot that lured Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, the last native Welsh prince of Wales, out of Gwynedd to his death with promises of ...