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Birth:          ABT 1302 Wigmore, Herefordshire, England
Death:          16 Dec 1331 Stanton Lacy, Shropshire, England

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Mortimer_(1302%E2%80%931331)
Sir Edmund Mortimer (1302/1303 – 16 December 1331) was the eldest son of Roger 
Mortimer, 1st Earl of March and Joan de Geneville, 2nd Baroness Geneville. By his 
wife Elizabeth de Badlesmere he was the father of Roger Mortimer, 2nd Earl of March. 
Though Edmund survived his father by one year, he did not inherit his father's lands 
and titles as they were forfeited to the Crown and his son only reacquired them 
gradually.
Family and early life[edit]

Edmund's father, Lord Roger, married the great heiress Joan de Geneville on 20 
September 1301. Edmund and another sibling were born within three years of the 
marriage.[1] Ian Mortimer places Edmund's birth in late 1302 or early 1303, with the 
earliest possible date being nine months after the wedding. As evidence, Mortimer 
writes that Edmund would probably have married at a similar age to his father, who 
was fifteen when he married Joan.[2] The Wigmore Abbey Annals, however, did not 
record his birth, so it is possible that the boy was born nearer to 1305, after the birth 
of his eldest sister Margaret.[2]

Marriage and issue[edit]

In the spring of 1316 at Westminster, Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Baron 
Badlesmere negotiated an alliance with Roger, which took place at the same time that 
they undertook Edward II's order to attack the town of Bristol and seize eighty men 
who had been indicted. In mid-May, Roger and his household travelled to Wigmore to 
celebrate the marriage of his eldest son, fourteen-year-old Edmund, to the three-year-
old Elizabeth de Badlesmere.[3][4] With Bartholomew de Badlesmere agreeing to pay 
Roger the "substantial sum" of £2000,[5] the two were married at Kinlet, Shropshire on 
27 July 1316.[6] Edmund and Elizabeth's eldest son, Roger, would be born at Ludlow 
Castle on 11 November 1328.[7] A short-lived brother, John, soon followed.[2]

During the time of Edmund's marriage, his father named him the heir to his mother 
Margaret's estates in Somerset and Buckinghamshire, which included Bridgwater 
Castle.[5] During their father's later exile abroad, Edmund and his younger brother 
Roger were imprisoned at Windsor Castle, along with the sons of the Earl of Hereford. 
Edmund and his two brothers were moved to the more secure Tower of London on 1 
October 1326.[8] Once freed, a triumphant Roger had Edmund and his brothers wear 
earls' attire as they were knighted by the young king Edward III on 1 February 1327.
[9] Roger was made Earl of March in September 1328, and Edmund's eldest son Roger 
was born eleven days later.[10] The Earl of March was beheaded in 1330,[11] one 
year before the death of his son Edmund. Edmund did not inherit his father's lands and 
titles as they were forfeited to the Crown.

Alison Weir cites Edward III's behaviour towards Edmund as evidence of the young 
king's sense of justice. In October 1331, Edmund was restored to the family lands at 
Wigmore as well as to other lordships.[12] He died several months later from a fever, 
on 16 December 1331, and was survived by his three-year-old son, Roger.[12] Four 
years later, Elizabeth remarried to William de Bohun, a close companion of Edward III 
and future Earl of Northampton.[7] Edmund's son Roger was allowed to succeed as 
the 2nd Earl of March in 1354.[13]

Parents
DE MORTIMER Roger (3 May 1287 - 29 Nov 1330)
DE GENEVILLE Joan (2 Feb 1286 - 19 Oct 1356)

Siblings
DE MORTIMER Edmund (ABT 1302 - 16 Dec 1331)
DE MORTIMER Margaret (2 May 1304 - 5 May 1337)
DE MORTIMER Joane (ABT 1313 - ABT 1350)
DE MORTIMER Katherine (Catherine) (1314 - 4 Aug 1369)

Marriage To DE BADLESMERE Elizabeth (1313 - 8 Jun 1356)
    m. 27 Jun 1326 Earnwood, Shropshire, England

Notes

Parents
DE BADLESMERE Bartholomew (18 Aug 1275 - 14 Apr 1322)
DE CLARE Margaret (ABT 1 Apr 1287 - 22 Oct 1333)

Children by DE BADLESMERE Elizabeth 1313 - 8 Jun 1356
DE MORTIMER Roger (11 Nov 1328 - 26 Feb 1360)

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