Sir Edmund de Mortimer Knight

  General Notes:

~Weis' Ancestral Roots, 29:32, Eldest son of Sir Roger de Mortimer by Joan de Geneville, m. Elizabeth de Badlesmere. ¹⁶⁰

  Information about this person:

• Background Information. ⁸¹⁴
Edmund, eldest son and heir of Sir Roger Mortimer, was summoned to as Edmund de Mortimer, 5 Edward III, and died the same year. He left a wife, Elizabeth, daughter and coheir of Bartholomew lord Badlesmere. She was to remarry William de Bohun, earl of Northampton. He also left a son and heir, Roger de Moritmer.

~Baronia Anglica Concentrata, Vol. I, p. 336

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Edmund de Mortimer, son and heir of Roger by Joan de Geneville, born probably in 1305 or 1306. From March 1322, presumably till the end of the reign, he was in the King's custody. In 1327, his father made him deputy keeper of the peace in Salop, Hereford and Worcs. He was knighted at the Coronation of Edward III, 1 Feb. 1327/8. In July 1330 he was joint commissioner of array with his father in Glos., Hereford, Salop and Worcs.

The magnates in Parliament, September 1331, interested themselves on Mortimer's behalf, but the King refused to act upon their advice. However, before 21 October, Edmund had the castle and manor of Wigmore, the land of Maelienydd, with the castles of Kenthles and Dynbaud, the land of Kedewayn with the castle of Dolforwyn, and the land of Comotoyder, these being the lands which had formed the subject of the representation of the magnates, were returned by the King. On 20 Nov 1331 he was summoned to Parliament by writs directed Edmundo de Mortuomari, whereby he is held to have become Lord Mortimer.

Edmund de Mortimer married, 27 Jun 1316, at Earnwood, in Kinlet, Elizabeth (aged 25 in 1338), 3^rd daughter of Bartholomew de Badlesmere, Lord Balesmere, and sister and coheir of Giles de Badlesmere, Lord Badlesmere. He died 16 Dec 1331. His widow received dower in September 1332, and in 1334 obtained the castle of Bridgwater and various manors as her right by gift of Roger de Mortimer. She married, 2ndly (licence 1335), William de Bohun, Earl of Northampton, who died in September 1360. She died June 1356.

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, (Moritmer) Vol. IX, pp. 284-285, Vol. XIV, p. 489

Edmund married Elizabeth de Badlesmere, daughter of Bartholomew de Badlesmere 1st Lordof Badlesmere and Margaret de Clare, in Castle, Badlesmere, Kent, England ^141,160.^,814 (Elizabeth de Badlesmere was born in 1313 in Castle, Badlesmere, Kent, England,⁵³⁰ died in 1356 in Kent, England ⁵³⁰ and was buried in Black Friars, London, Middlesex, England.)