Philippa Plantagenet

1355 - 1381  (25 years)

• Name	Philippa Plantagenet  [1]
  Birth	16 Aug 1355	Elham, Kent, England   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	5 Jan 1381	Cork, Cork, Ireland   [1]
  Burial	Wigmore, Herefordshire, England   [1]
  Person ID	I14192	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

  Family	3rd Earl of March and Earl of Ulster Edmund de Mortimer,   b. 1351, Isle of Anglesey, Wales d. 27 Dec 1381, Cork, Cork, Ireland (Age 30 years)
  Children	1. Elisabeth de Mortimer,   b. 12 Feb 1370, Monmouthshire, Wales d. 20 Apr 1417 (Age 47 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. 4th Earl of March and 6th Earl of Ulster Roger de Mortimer,   b. 11 Apr 1374, Monmouthshire, Wales d. 20 Jul 1398, Meath County, Ireland (Age 24 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F5530	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 16 Aug 1355 - Elham, Kent, England Death - 5 Jan 1381 - Cork, Cork, Ireland Burial - - Wigmore, Herefordshire, England  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S6040] FindAGrave Old World, Philippa Plantagenet de Mortimer 1355-1381. Philippa was born in Eltham Palace, Kent, England on 16 August 1355. She was the daughter and only child of Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence and Elizabeth de Burgh, 4th Countess of Ulster. Her father was the second son of King Edward III of England by his Queen consort, Philippa of Hainault. Philippa married Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March in about 1368 at Reading Abbey, forging an alliance that would have far-reaching consequences in English history. During her own lifetime, Philippa was the heiress presumptive to her first cousin Richard II, and would be displaced in the succession by any children of the king. After her death in 1382, her rights passed on to her son, Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March. When Richard resigned his crown without issue on 29 September 1399, the rightful heir was Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, whose father Roger had died the previous year. However, the throne was usurped by Richard and Philippa's first cousin, Henry Bolingbroke, an event that later precipitated the Wars of the Roses. As a result of her seniority in the line of succession to the throne of the Kingdom of England and her marriage into the powerful Mortimer family, her descendants eventually succeeded to the throne as the House of York under Edward IV. She died on 5 January 1382 in Cork, Ireland, and was buried in Wigmore, Herefordshire. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/57654945/philippa-plantagenet