Anne de Mortimer

Anne Mortimer (* December 27, 1390, † September 1411 ) is the daughter of Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March, and Eleanor de Holland. About she is personally very little is known, but by their lineage plays her marriage to Richard of Conisburgh, 1st Earl of Cambridge in 1406 a significant role for the later conflict between the houses of Lancaster and York in Wars of the Roses, as the line York later appealed to them and their ancestors.

Dynastic contexts

Anne Mortimer was the granddaughter of Philippa Plantagenet, 5th Countess of Ulster, the only daughter of Lionel of Antwerp, Duke of Clarence. Her brother Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, was so at the end of the reign of Richard II as representative of the second oldest lineage, starting from Edward III. , Designated successor in the event of childlessness of the king.

By the usurpation of Henry Bolingbroke, son of John of Gaunt, under the title of Henry IV in 1399, however, took the third oldest lineage of the Plantagenets the royal title. Anne's husband Richard of Conisburgh comes from the fourth- oldest lineage of his father Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, so that potential titles of the second and fourth lines were united in their children. Richard of Conisburgh nam this in 1415 as an opportunity to plot against Henry V in favor of his brother Edmund Mortimer, who, however, himself revealed this conspiracy and was faithful to his Lancastercousin.

Anne Mortimer's legacy

Anne was at that time already died, probably at the birth of her second child, Richard. But since her brother later died without legitimate heirs and also the older brother of her husband, Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York, no heirs left, her son Richard received substantial bequests to his mother and posthumously about them that of his maternal uncle, as well as the duke of York, including possessions paternal about his uncle. Anne's son Richard thus combined the legacies of the line Clarence Mortimer with those of the line York, including claims the throne of his maternal line.

Progeny

  • Isabella, ∞ Heinrich Bourchier, son of William Bourchier and Anne of Gloucester
  • Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York ( September 21, 1411 *, † December 30, 1460 ), Cecily Neville ∞, father of Edward IV and Richard III.
  • Spouse of a famous person
  • House of York
  • English
  • Born in 1390
  • Died in 1411
  • Woman
House of Lancaster Richard II of England Edward III of England Henry IV of England Henry V of England Cecily Neville, Duchess of York
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