24 HISTORICAL MEMORANDA OF 



wards espoused Edward Charlton, Earl of Powys. By her he had 

 two sons and two daughters : — Edmund, sixth Earl of March and 

 third of Ulster, who died without issue, but had married Anne, 

 daughter of the Earl of Stafford, by his wife, the daughter of 

 Thomas de Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester ; and Roger, who died 

 without issue ; Ann, who became the heiress of her brother Ed- 

 mond ; and Eleanor, the wife of Hugh, eldest son of Hugh de 

 Courtney, Earl of Devon, and who likewise expired without de- 

 scendants. 



In 1399, the year in which Richard II. was deposed, Edmund 

 Earl of March, was but seven years of age, and Henry of Lancas- 

 ter, who became king, as he was next heir to the throne, kept him 

 and his brother out of the way of public transactions. He placed 

 them in the castle of Windsor after his accession, and gave them in 

 ward to his son Henry, Prince of Wales.* 



In ]402, the formidable insurrection of Owain Glyndwrt took 

 place. That valiant chieftain committed devastation promiscuously, 

 in order to distract attention, and, among the rest, ravaged the 

 estate of the young Earl of March. Sir Edmund Mortimer, his 

 uncle, led out the retainers of the family, and gave the Welsh 

 troops battle; but he was defeated, and himself made prisoner. 

 Walsingham, Hall, Stowe, Dugdale, Rapin, Hume, and others, 

 have uniformly asserted that it was Edmond, Earl of March, who 

 was captured. Pennant, Coxe, Malone, and Ellis, have all noticed 

 this as an error; but the historian of Herefordshire J says, not only 

 that the uncle was taken, but '^ the earl himself, who had been al- 

 lowed to retire to his castle of Wigmore, and who, although a mere 

 boy, took the field with his followers, fell into Glyndwr's hands, 

 and was carried into Wales, where Henry, who equally hated and 

 dreaded all the family of March, permitted him to remain in cap- 

 tivity." He adds, " every circumstance seems to shew that this 

 conflict took place in the neighbourhood of Wigmore ;" and, ac- 

 cording to Dugdale,.§ it was fought on a mountain called Brynglas, 



• Dugdale's Baronage, L, 151. 



f Dugdale says, ibid, p. 716, that he had been esquire to the Earl of 

 ArundeL He held, however, this office to Richard II. and, Pennant says 



was knighted by him before his deposition Tour in Wales, p. 304, Gwilym 



ab Tudyr was another esquire retained by Richard, at a pension of £10 



Calend. Rol. Pat., p. 234. He and his brother Rhys Ddu became generals 

 jinder Owain. 



X Duncomb, voL i., p. 86. 



% Bar., 1., p. 150. 



