Roger (Mortimer), 4th Earl of March

1373 - 1398  (24 years)

• Name	Roger (Mortimer)  [1]
  Suffix	4th Earl of March
  Born	1 Sept. 1373  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland  [1]
  Died	20 July 1398  [1]
  Person ID	I457	British Peerage & Gentry
  Last Modified	5 July 2018

  
  

  Father	Edmund (Mortimer), 3rd Earl of March,   d. 27 Dec. 1381, Dominican Friary, Cork, Co. Cork, Ireland
  Mother	Philippa (Plantagenet), suo jure Countess of Ulster,   b. 16 Aug. 1355, Eltham, Kent, England ,   d. 5 Jan. 1377/78  (Age 22 years)
  Family ID	F233	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Lady Eleanora Holand,   d. 23 Oct. 1405
  Children	+ 1. Lady Anne Mortimer,   b. 27 Dec. 1390,   d. Sept. 1411  (Age 20 years)   2. Edmund (Mortimer), 5th Earl of March,   b. 6 Nov. 1391,   d. 19 Jan. 1424/25  (Age 33 years)   3. Roger Mortimer,   d. circa 1412   4. Eleanor Mortimer,   b. circa 1395
  Last Modified	5 July 2018
  Family ID	F234	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Heraldry		Arms of Mortimer quartering De Burgh (4th & 5th Earls of March) Quarterly: 1st & 4th, Barry Or and Azure, on a chief of the first two pallets between two base esquires of the second over all an inescutcheon Argent (MORTIMER); 2nd & 3rd, Or a cross Gules (DE BURGH). (From a Seal of Edmund (Mortimer), Earl of March, 1400.) Source: Boutell's Heraldry, rev. J. P. Brooke-Little (1970), p. 178.
  		Arms of Mortimer (Earl of March) Barry Or and Azure, on a chief of the first two pallets between two base esquires of the second over all an inescutcheon Argent

  
  

• Notes

  Declared heir to the Crown, 1387. [1]

  
  

• Sources

  [S8] BP 1970, Peter Townend (ed.), (London: Burke's Peerage Ltd., 1970), page liii.