Family of Richard of CONISBURGH and Anne of MORTIMER

Husband:	Richard of CONISBURGH (1375-1415)
Wife:	Anne of MORTIMER (1390-1411)
Children:	Richard (1411-1460)

Husband: Richard of CONISBURGH

Wife: Anne of MORTIMER

Name:	Anne of MORTIMER
Sex:	Female
Father:	Roger of MORTIMER (1374-1398)
Mother:	Alianore HOLLAND (1373- )
Birth	27 Dec 1390
Occupation		Countess of Cambidge
Death	21 Sep 1411 (age 20)

Child 1: Richard

Note on Husband: Richard of CONISBURGH

Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge (c. 1375 – 5 August 1415) was the younger son of Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York and Isabella of Castile.

 

His paternal grandparents were Edward III of Windsor, King of England and Philippa of Hainault. His maternal grandparents were Peter of Castile and María de Padilla.[1] He was born at Conisburgh Castle in Yorkshire, and was confirmed in the Earldom of Cambridge, which had been resigned by his brother, in 1414.

In about 1406, he married his first cousin twice-removed, Anne Mortimer, a descendant of Edward III (his great-great-granddaughter), through his son Lionel of Antwerp. A papal dispensation was dated for 28 May 1406, making it most likely that the marriage took place in May or June. It was through her that the Yorkist faction in the Wars of the Roses claimed the throne. Their marriage produced a daughter, Isabel, and a son, Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York. The latter eventually laid claim to the throne during the Wars of the Roses. It is believed that Anne died giving birth to Richard. Following Anne's death, the Earl of Cambridge married Matilda Clifford. In 1414 a daughter, Alice was born to both Matilda and the Earl of Cambridge, she married Sir Thomas Musgrave.

 

[edit] DeathHe was discovered to be one of the fomentors of the Southampton Plot against King Henry V immediately prior to departure on the French campaign. (His elder brother, Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York, would die at the Battle of Agincourt, less than three months later.) He was stripped of all his titles and estates and was executed on 5 August 1415 at Southampton Green, Hampshire, England; before the fleet set sail on 11 August 1415. In Edward IV's first parliament in November 1461, the condemnation of Richard, Earl of Cambridge in 1415 was annulled as irregular and unlawful. (Henry V and the Southampton Plot of 1415 by T.B. Pugh, page 131)

 

[edit] Titles, styles, honours and arms[edit] Arms

Coat of armsRichard bore his father's arms (those of the kingdom, differenced by a label argent of three points, each bearing three torteaux gules), differenced by a bordure Leon.[2]

Note on Wife: Anne of MORTIMER

Anne de Mortimer, Countess of Cambridge (27 December 1390[1] – c. 21 September 1411) was an English noblewoman in line of succession for the throne of England. She was the mother of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, and through him she was the grandmother of English kings Edward IV and Richard III

 

Lady Anne was born on 27 December 1390 in New Forest, Westmeath, Ireland, the eldest daughter and child of Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March (1373–1398) and Lady Alianore Holland. She had two younger brothers, Edmund and Roger, and two younger sisters, Eleanor and Alice. She was thus granddaughter of Philippa, 5th Countess of Ulster, the daughter of Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence, second (surviving) son of Edward III of England, and hence represented a Plantagenet line senior to that of her husband or the Lancastrian kings. It was through her that Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York claimed the throne.

 

[edit] Marriage and issueIn May 1406, she married Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge, who was also descended from Edward III through a younger son Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York.

 

They had two children:

 

Isabel (1409 - 2 October 1484), married Henry Bourchier, 1st Earl of Essex, by whom she had eleven children.

Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York (21 September 1411 – 30 December 1460), married in 1429 Cecily Neville, by whom he had thirteen children.

[edit] Death in childbirthIt is believed that Anne died giving birth to her son Richard on 21 September 1411 or shortly after. She was buried in Kings Langley Church, Hertfordshire.[2]

 

[edit] The Southampton PlotIn 1415 Anne's husband Cambridge plotted with Henry Scrope, 3rd Baron Scrope of Masham to depose Henry V, Anne's cousin and the reigning king of England, and place her brother, Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March on the throne. (The Earl of March had been the heir presumptive of Richard II. In 1399 Richard was forced to abdicate in favour of Henry IV, and for the next few decades Mortimer served as a focal point for conspiracies aimed at removing Henry IV and his heirs from the throne). The plot failed and Cambridge was duly executed in August 1415. His then four-year old son, Richard Plantagenet, ultimately championed his father's cause, which evolved into the Wars of the Roses and the Yorkist claimants achieving the throne.

 

The Earl of March was not involved in the Southampton Plot which, despite its failure, successfully promoted the claim of Anne's descendants, especially the Yorkists, to the throne of England.