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Sir Edmund Mortimer (10 December 1376〔Cokayne and Tout give his date of birth as 9 November 1376.〕 – 1409), was an English nobleman who played a part in the rebellions of the Welsh leader, Owain Glyndŵr and the Percys at the beginning of the 15th century. He perished at the siege of Harlech as part of these conflicts. He was related to many members of the English royal family through his mother, Philippa Plantagenet, the daughter of Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence, and a granddaughter of King Edward III of England. ==Family== Edmund was born on 10 December 1376 at Ludlow Castle in Shropshire〔.〕 as the second son of Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March, by his wife Philippa Plantagenet. He was a grandson of Lionel of Antwerp, thus a great-grandson of King Edward III. He had an elder brother, Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March, and two sisters, Elizabeth, who married Henry 'Hotspur' Percy, and Philippa, who married firstly John Hastings, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, secondly Richard Fitzalan, 11th Earl of Arundel, and thirdly, Sir Thomas Poynings.〔; ; ; ; .〕 Edmund was financially well provided for, both by his father, who died when Edmund was 5 years old, and by his elder brother Roger. Edmund was a supporter of his cousin, Henry Bolingbroke, later King Henry IV, in spite of the fact that his older brother Roger had a stronger genealogical claim to the throne by reason of the fact that he and his brother were grandsons of Lionel of Antwerp, King Edward III's second surviving son, whereas Bolingbroke's father, John of Gaunt, was King Edward III's third surviving son. When his elder brother Roger was slain in a skirmish at Kells in Ireland on 20 July 1398,〔 Edmund became responsible for protecting the interests of Roger's young son, Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, who also had a claim to the throne as heir to his father. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Edmund Mortimer, son of the 3rd Earl of March」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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