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ROGER DE MORTIMER

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 686 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROGER DE See also:MORTIMER , 4th See also:earl of See also:March and See also:Ulster (1374-1398), son of the 3rd earl, succeeded to the titles and estates of his See also:family when a See also:child of seven, and a See also:month afterwards he was appointed See also:lord-See also:lieutenant of See also:Ireland, his See also:uncle See also:Sir See also:Thomas Mortimer acting as his See also:deputy. Being a See also:ward of the See also:Crown, his See also:guardian was the earl of See also:Kent, See also:half-See also:brother to See also:Richard II.; and in 1388 he married Kent's daughter, Eleanor. The importance which he owed to his hereditary See also:influence and possessions, and especially to his descent from See also:Edward III., was immensely increased when Richard II. publicly acknowledged him as See also:heir-presumptive to the crown in 1385. In 1394 he accompanied Richard to Ireland, but notwithstanding a See also:commission from the See also:king as lieutenant of the districts over which he exercised nominal authority by hereditary right, he made little headway against the native Irish chieftains. March enjoyed See also:great popularity in See also:England though he took no active See also:part in opposing the despotic See also:measures of the king; in Ireland he illegally assumed the native Irish See also:costume. In See also:August 1398 he was killed in fight with an Irish See also:clan, and was buried in Wigmore See also:Abbey. March's daughter See also:Anne married Richard earl of See also:Cambridge, son of See also:Edmund See also:duke of See also:York, fifth son of Edward III.; their son Richard, duke of York, was See also:father of King Edward IV., who thus derived his See also:title to the crown and acquired the estates of the See also:house of Mortimer.

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