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EDMUND DE See also: earl of See also: March and
See also: Ulster, son of the 4th earl, succeeded to his See also: father's claim to the See also: crown as well as to his title and estates on the See also: death of the latter in See also: Ireland in 1398
.
In the following See also: year See also: Richard II. was de-posed and the crown seized by See also: Henry of
See also: Lancaster
.
The See also: young earl of March and his See also: brother See also: Roger were then kept in custody
by Henry IV., who, however, treated them honourably, until March 1405, when they were carried off from Windsor See also: Castle by the opponents of the Lancastrian dynasty, of whom their See also: uncle See also: Sir Edmund See also: Mortimer (see above) and his brother-in-See also: law Henry Percy (Hotspur) were leaders in See also: league with See also: Owen See also: Glendower
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The boys were recaptured, and in 1409 were committed to the care of the See also: prince of See also: Wales
.
On the accession of the latter as Henry V., in 1413, the earl of March was set at liberty and. restored to his estates, his brother Roger having died some years previously; and he continued to enjoy the favour of the See also: king in spite of a conspiracy in 1415 to place him on the
See also: throne, in which his brother-in-law, the earl of Cambridge, played the leading See also: part
.
March accompanied Henry V. throughout his See also: wars in See also: France, and on the king's death in 1422 became a member of the council of regency
.
He died in Ireland in 1425, and as he See also: left no issue the earldom of March in the See also: house of Mortimer became See also: extinct, the estates passing to the last earl's See also: nephew Richard, who in 1435 was officially styled duke of See also: York, earl of March and Ulster, and baron of Wigmore
.
Richard's son See also: Edward having ascended the throne in 1461 as Edward IV., the earldom of March became merged in the crown
.
See See also: Thomas
See also: Rymer, Foedera, &c
.
(See also: London, 1704-1732); T
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Tout, The See also: Political See also: History of See also: England, vol. iii., ed. by See also: William
See also: Hunt and R
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L . See also: Poole (London, 19o5); Sir William See also: Dugdale, Monasticon anglicanum (3 vols., London, 1655–1673); William Stubbs, Constitutional History of England, vol. ii
.
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Scottish See also: Marches.—The Scottish earls of March were descended from Crinan, whose son Maldred married Algitha, daughter of Ughtred, earl of See also: Northumberland, by Elgiva, daughter of the Saxon king !See also: Ethelred
.
Maldred's son Cospatrick, or Gospatrick, was made earl of Northumberland by William the Conqueror; but being soon afterwards deprived of this position he fled to Scotland, where See also: Malcolm Canmore, king of Scotland, welcomed him and granted him See also: Dunbar and the ad-joining lands
.
Two generations of Cospatricks followed in lineal succession, bearing the title of earl, but without territorial designation
.
Cospatrick II. witnessed the charter of See also: Alexander I. founding the abbey of Scone in 1115
.
The 3rd earl, also named Cospatrick, a liberal benefactor of
See also: Melrose Abbey, died in 1166, leaving two sons, the younger of whom was the ancestor of the earls of Home
.
The elder son, See also: Waltheof, was the first of the See also: family to be styled " Comes de Dunbar," about the year 1174
.
His importance is proved by the fact that he was one of the hostages for the performance of the Treaty of See also: Falaise for the liberation of William the See also: Lion in 1175
.
Waltheof's son Patrick Dunbar (the name Dunbar, derived from the family estates, now becoming an hereditary surname), styled 5th earl of Dunbar, although his father had been the first to adopt the territorial designation, was keeper of See also: Berwick Castle, and married Ada, natural daughter of William the Lion
.
His See also: grandson Patrick, 7th earl, headed the party that liberated King Alexander III. in 1255 from the Comyns, and in the same year was nominated See also: guardian of the king and See also: queen by the Treaty of Roxburgh
.
He signed the Treaty of See also: Perth (See also: July 6, 1266) by which See also: Magnus VI. of See also: Norway ceded the Isle of See also: Man and the See also: Hebrides to See also: Scot-See also: land
.
His wife was Christian, daughter of Robert See also: Bruce, the competitor for the crown of Scotland
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