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Catrin is one of the children of Owain Glyndŵr about whom most is known. In November 1402, she married Edmund Mortimer, [1] an unransomed hostage who entered into an alliance with her father. Edmund Mortimer died during the siege of Harlech Castle in 1409, of unknown causes. [2] Catrin was subsequently captured alongside her three daughters.
Edmund Mortimer's mother was the daughter of Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent, and Alice FitzAlan. Thomas Holland's mother, Joan of Kent , a granddaughter of Edward I, was the mother of Richard II by her second marriage; Alice Fitzalan was the daughter of Richard FitzAlan, 3rd Earl of Arundel , and his second wife, Eleanor , daughter of Henry ...
Edmund Mortimer died during the siege, and Owain's wife Margaret along with two of his daughters (including Catrin) and three of Mortimer's granddaughters were captured on the fall of the castle and imprisoned in the Tower of London. They were all to die in the Tower in 1413 and were buried at St Swithin, London Stone. [61]
Edmund IV was born on 10 December 1376 at Ludlow Castle in Shropshire [4] as the second son of Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March, by his wife Philippa Plantagenet. He was a grandson of Lionel of Antwerp, Duke of Clarence , thus a great-grandson of King Edward III of England .
Mortimer began acting on stage in 1904 and went on to perform with several theatrical companies. [1] He appeared in more than 250 films between 1913 and 1945. He also directed 23 films between 1918 and 1928, [ citation needed ] including The Arizona Romeo (1925).
He was the son of Roger Mortimer, 2nd Earl of March, and his wife Philippa, daughter of William Montagu, 1st Earl of Salisbury, and his wife 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.
Elizabeth de Bohun (née de Badlesmere), Countess of Northampton (1313 – 8 June 1356) was the wife of two English noblemen, Sir Edmund Mortimer and William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton. She was a co-heiress of her brother Giles de Badlesmere, 2nd Baron Badlesmere .
John de Mortimer, accidentally slain in a joust by John de Leyburne. [4] Walter de Mortimer, a priest, Rector of Kingston. [4] Edmund de Mortimer, a priest, Rector of Hodnet, Shropshire and Treasurer of the cathedral at York. [4] Hugh de Mortimer, a priest, Rector of church at Old Radnor. [4] They also had two daughters who became nuns ...