1381 Edmund Mortimer died on December 27 in the Dominican friary in Cork, Ireland. [1]
It is a well-known fact that the last three Mortimer earls of March each perished in Ireland whilst in the service of the English crown. Having convened a meeting of the Irish council at Clonmel in August 1381 , Edmund, third earl of March, was taken ill whilst travelling south to Cork. Despite reaching the port-town before Christmas, Edmund died suddenly on 27 December 1381 within the city's Dominican friary. Edmund's body was subsequently taken to Wigmore Abbey for burial.
[1] Simon Egan, "A Task Too Great for One Dynasty? The Mortimers Earls of March, the de Burgh Inheritance and the Gaelic Nobility, c. 1370-C. 1425" The Mortimer History Society Journal 4 (2021), 1-20 at 1, citing C. Given-Wilson (ed.), The Chronicle of Adam Usk, 1377- 1421 (Oxford, 1997), 46-47, [Academia].