Philippa, 5th Countess of Ulster

Philippa Plantagenet, 5th Countess of Ulster, (* August 16, 1355; † January 5, 1382 ) was the only daughter of Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence, the third son of Edward III. of England. Her mother was Elizabeth de Burgh, 4th Countess of Ulster, from which it inherited the title of Countess of Ulster.

Philippa is the only child of Lionel. She was married to Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March, who was a great-grandson of Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, the lover of the queen of Edward II, Isabella of France. As Philippa's cousin, King Richard II, had no children, were considered during whose reign Philippa's descendants, first her son Roger, and later her grandson Edmund, until the accession of Henry IV from the third-oldest lineage of the Plantagenets as the next heir to the throne. The claim to the throne of the house of York in the later Rose wars led over Philippa's granddaughter Anne Mortimer and Philippa itself in two female succession as the representative of the oldest still existing line of the royal house.

My great-great grandson finally ascended the English throne in 1461, Edward IV.

Progeny

  • Elisabeth, ∞ Sir Henry " Hotspur " Percy
  • Roger, later 4th Earl of March ∞ Eleanor Holland, daughter of Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent
  • Edmund Catrin ferch Owain Glyndŵr ∞, daughter of Owain Glyndŵr
  • Philippa, ∞ Richard Fitzalan, 11th Earl of Arundel (House FitzAlan )

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