Mortimer, Edmund de (1252 - 1304)

Biographical Overview

Parents

Titles - 1
Properties - 9
Total events naming patron - 1
Troupes - 1
Bibliographic Sources - 2
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Born / Died

Birth Date: ca. 1252 ('aged 30 and more in 1282, and 40 and more in 1401' [CP])
Death Date: 1304-07-17

Siblings

Male

Mortimer, Ralph de ( - 1274)
Mortimer, Roger de (1256 - 1326)
Mortimer, William de ( - 1297)

Female

Mortimer, Margaret de ( - 1297)
Mortimer, Isabel de ( - 1300)

Marriages/Other Unions

  1. Fiennes, Margaret de ( - 1333/4)
    Type: marriage
    Union began: ca. 1285
    Union ended: n.d.

Offspring

Mother unknown

  1. Female offspring: Mortimer, Isolt de (d. 1336)

From Fiennes, Margaret de ( - 1333/4)

  1. Male offspring: Mortimer, Roger de (1287 - 1330)
  2. Female offspring: Mortimer, Margaret (d. 1312)
  3. Female offspring: Mortimer, Joan (n.d.)
  4. Female offspring: Mortimer, Elizabeth (n.d.)

Titles

  • 1st Baron Mortimer (of Wigmore)
    Assumed 1295-16-24 (date summoned to parliament by this title)
    Vacated 1304-07-17

Details of Offices

Began Ended Notes
Keeper, Shropshire 1282-8-8 n.d.
Keeper, Sussex 1282-8-8 n.d.
Keeper, Cardiganshire 1287-12-5 n.d. Held jointly
Keeper, Carmarthenshire 1287-12-5 n.d. Held jointly

Details of Properties

Residence

  • Wigmore, Herefordshire

Lands

  • Berkshire
  • Gloucestershire
  • Hampshire
  • Herefordshire
  • Shropshire
  • Somerset
  • Wales
  • Worcestershire

Events Naming Patron

Event Date Location Troupe
Performance 1290-1290 London (Unknown), London , London (city-county) Sir Edmund de Mortimer's Harper

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name Patron Troupe Type # of events
Sir Edmund de Mortimer's Harper Mortimer, Edmund de (1252 - 1304) Musicians 1

Bibliographic Sources

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The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom. 1887–98 (8 vols); 1910–59 (13 vols). 6 vols. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1982.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 01/05/2005 (http://www.oxforddnb.com)