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Edmund Mortimer died in the final battle and Owain ’ s wife Margaret along with two of his daughters ( including Catrin ) and three of Mortimer's grand-daughters were taken prisoner and incarcerated in the Tower of London.
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Edmund held many tournaments at Kenilworth in the late 13th century, including a huge event in 1279, presided over by the royal favourite Roger de Mortimer, in which a hundred knights competed for three days in the tiltyard in an event called " the Round Table ", in imitation of the popular Arthurian legends.
Owain demonstrated his new status by negotiating the " Tripartite Indenture " with Edmund Mortimer and Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland.
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The Earl of Arundel, Sir Edmund Fitz Alan, an old enemy of Roger Mortimer, was beheaded on 17 November, together with two of the earl's retainers, John Daniel and Thomas de Micheldever.
Initial operations were launched under the captaincy of Mortimer, Lancaster ( Edward's brother Edmund ) and William de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick.
Yet the real adversary of the Commons, supported by powerful men such as Wykeham and Edmund de Mortimer, Earl of March, was John of Gaunt.
Henry quickly gained enough power and support to have himself declared King Henry IV, imprison King Richard ( who died in prison under mysterious circumstances ) and bypass Richard's seven-year-old heir-presumptive, Edmund de Mortimer.
When Richard II was forced to abdicate the throne in 1399, Henry was not next in line to the throne ; the heir presumptive was Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, who descended from Edward III's second son, Lionel of Antwerp.
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However, Æthelred's son Edmund II Ironside died shortly afterwards, allowing Canute, Sweyn's son, to become king of England.
In the same year, Innocent excommunicated Frederick II's other son, Conrad IV, King of Germany, but the latter died a few days after the investiture of Edmund.
Meanwhile another contender for the throne had emerged – Edward the Exile, son of Edmund Ironside and a grandson of Æthelred II, returned to England in 1057, and although he died shortly after his return, he brought with him his family, which included two daughters, Margaret and Christina, and a son, Edgar the Ætheling.
Æthelred was able to hold out against Cnut in London, but in April 1016 Æthelred died, as did Edmund in November.
Æthelred died in April 1016, and he was succeeded by Edward's older half brother Edmund Ironside, who carried on the fight against Sweyn's son, Cnut.
His younger brother Edmund, Earl of Rutland, died along with his father fighting for the Yorkist cause.
She was the widow of John V of Brittany, with whom she had had four daughters and four sons ; she and Henry had only one son Edmund, called Labourde, who was born and died in 1401.
Æthelred died on 23 April 1016, and the citizens and councillors in London chose Edmund as king and probably crowned him.
According to John of Worcester, Cnut sent them to the king of Sweden to be murdered, but the king instead sent them to Hungary, where Edmund died but Edward prospered.
William was a successful, well-connected and wealthy London lawyer who died in 1534, and Joyce was the daughter of courtier Sir Edmund Denny and the sister of Sir Anthony Denny, who was the principal gentleman of King Henry VIII's privy chamber.
On December 7, 1891, Crane's mother died at the age of 64, and the 20-year-old appointed Edmund as his guardian.
However, Æthelstan died in 939 and his successor Edmund, only 18 years of age, was unable to retain control of Northumbria.
In 1472, sixteen years after his death, Margaret specified in her will that she wanted to be buried alongside Edmund, even though she had enjoyed a long, stable and close relationship with her third husband, who had died in 1471.
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