Edmund Mortimer (1376 - 1409)

Born 9 Nov 1376 in England

Ancestors

Died 1409 at about age 32 in Harlech Castle, Harlech, Merionteithshire, Wales

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Biography

1402 June - Battle of Bryn Glas
Glyndŵr's forces met with an army led by Henry IV's cousin, Sir Edmund Mortimer, the uncle of the Earl of March, at Bryn Glas, near the village of Pilleth, a few miles from Presteigne. Mortimer's army was defeated and Edmund Mortimer (would marry Owain's daughter, Katherine) himself captured, Bryn Glas was a bloody battle that ended, according to rumour, in Welsh women mutilating the dead English soldiers.

Marriage and Issue

By Owen's daughter Mortimer had one son, named Lionel, and three daughters. She, with her family, was already in the hands of Henry V in June 1413, perhaps since the capture of Harlech, being kept in custody within the city of London (Devon, Issue Rolls of Exchequer, p. 321 ; Tyler, Henry V, i. 245). But before the end of the same year Lady Mortimer and her daughters were dead. They were buried at the expense of one pound within the church of St. Swithin's, London (Devon, p. 327).^[1]

Death

Date: 1409

Place: Harlech Castle, Harlech, Merionteithshire, Wales^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Mortimer, Edmund de (1376-1409) Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 39. by Thomas Frederick Tout
2. ↑ Source: #S4

• Royal Ancestry by Douglas Richardson Vol. IV. page 175

• Pedigree Resource File CD 49 (Salt Lake City, UT: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., 2002)
• Ancestral File (TM), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998
• hofundssonAnces.ged