Edmund de Mortimer, 5th Earl of March and 7th Earl of Ulster (6 November 1391 – 18 January 1425), was an
English nobleman. A great-great-grandson of King
Edward III of England, he was
heir presumptive to King
Richard II of England, his cousin once removed, when Richard II was deposed in favour of
Henry IV. Edmund Mortimer's claim to the crown was the basis of rebellions and plots against Henry IV and his son
Henry V, and was later taken up by the
House of York in the
Wars of the Roses, though Mortimer himself was an important and loyal vassal of Henry V and Henry VI. Edmund Mortimer was the last
Earl of March of the Mortimer family.