Margaret Wake, 3rd Baroness Wake of Liddell
Margaret Wake | |
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Countess of Kent | |
Baroness Wake of Liddell | |
Predecessor | Thomas Wake |
Successor | John |
Born | c. 1297 |
Died | 19 September 1349 |
Spouse | John Comyn (c. 1294–1314) m. c. 1312; dec. 1314 Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent m. 1325; dec. 1330 |
Issue | Aymer Comyn (1314–1316) Edmund, 2nd Earl of Kent Margaret, Viscountess of Tartas Joan, Princess of Wales John, 3rd Earl of Kent |
Father | John Wake, 1st Baron Wake of Liddell |
Mother | Joan de Fiennes |
Margaret Wake, suo jure 3rd Baroness Wake of Liddell and Countess of Kent (c. 1297 – 19 September 1349), was the wife of Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, the youngest surviving son of Edward I of England and Margaret of France.[1]
Family
She was the daughter of John Wake, 1st Baron Wake of Liddell (son of Baldwin Wake and Hawise de Quincy) and Joan de Fiennes. By her grandmother Hawise, she was the great-granddaughter of
Marriages
Margaret married John Comyn (c. 1294 – 1314) around 1312, son of the John Comyn who was murdered by Robert the Bruce in 1306. Her husband John died at the Battle of Bannockburn, and their only child, Aymer Comyn (1314–1316), died as a toddler. She married, for a second time, Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent. They received a dispensation in October 1325, and the wedding probably took place at Christmas.
Through her marriage to Edmund of Woodstock (who was executed for treason in 1330), she was the mother of two short-lived earls of
Via their grandson, Thomas Holland, Margaret and Edmund's descendants included both Edward IV (via Thomas's eldest and second daughters, Alinor and Joan) and Henry Tudor (via Thomas's third daughter, Margaret), from both of whom every English monarch from Henry VIII onwards descends. Thomas's daughter Margaret was also ancestor of every king of Scotland from James II, while Alinor was also ancestor of royal spouses Anne Neville and Catherine Parr.
Depictions in fiction
Margaret is a supporting character in the Karen Harper historical fiction novel The First Princess of Wales, which gives a fictional depiction of her daughter Joan of Kent's life at the English court.
Margaret is a character in the 2014 novel A Triple Knot by
References
- ISBN 9781903153192.