Biography of Margaret Wake Countess Kent 1297-1349

Paternal Family Tree: Wake

Maternal Family Tree: Clemence Roches Countess Blois

1314 Battle of Bannockburn

1327 Abdication of Edward II

1327 Death of King Edward II

1330 Execution of Edmund of Woodstock

1349 Black Death Plague

Before 24th September 1291 [her father] John Wake 1st Baron Wake of Liddell (age 23) and [her mother] Joan Fiennes Baroness Wake Liddell were married. She by marriage Baroness Wake of Liddell. They were fourth cousin once removed. He a great x 2 grandson of King John of England. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England.

On 20th March 1297 Margaret Wake Countess Kent was born to John Wake 1st Baron Wake of Liddell (age 29) and Joan Fiennes Baroness Wake Liddell. She a great x 3 granddaughter of King John of England.

Around 4th October 1300 [her father] John Wake 1st Baron Wake of Liddell (age 32) died. His son [her brother] Thomas (age 3) succeeded 2nd Baron Wake of Liddell.

Before 26th October 1309 [her mother] Joan Fiennes Baroness Wake Liddell died.

Around 1312 John Comyn 4th Lord Baddenoch (age 18) and Margaret Wake Countess Kent (age 14) were married. They were half sixth cousins. She a great x 3 granddaughter of King John of England.

In 1314 [her husband] John Comyn 4th Lord Baddenoch (age 20) succeeded 4th Lord Baddenoch. Margaret Wake Countess Kent (age 16) by marriage Lord Baddenoch.

Battle of Bannockburn

                    On 24th June 1314 the Scottish army of King Robert the Bruce I of Scotland (age 39) including, James "Black" Douglas (age 28), heavily defeated the English army led by [her future brother-in-law] King Edward II of England (age 30) at the Battle of Bannockburn.
                
                    Gilbert de Clare 8th Earl Gloucester 7th Earl Hertford (age 23) was killed. Earl Gloucester, Earl Hertford extinct.
                
                    [her husband] John Comyn 4th Lord Baddenoch (age 20), Robert Felton 1st Baron Felton (age 44) and William Vesci were killed.
                
                    William Marshal 1st Baron Marshal (age 36) was killed. His son John (age 22) succeeded 2nd Baron Marshal.
                
                    Robert Clifford 1st Baron Clifford (age 40) was killed. His son Roger (age 14) succeeded 2nd Baron de Clifford.
                
                    John Lovell 2nd Baron Lovel (age 25) was killed. His son John succeeded 3rd Baron Lovel of Titchmarsh.
                
                    Henry Bohun was killed by King Robert the Bruce I of Scotland. He was buried in Llanthony Secunda Priory, Gloucestershire [Map].
                
                    Walter Fauconberg 2nd Baron Fauconberg (age 50) possilby died although his death is also reported as being on 31 Dec 1318.
                
                    Bartholomew Badlesmere 1st Baron Badlesmere (age 38), Humphrey Bohun 4th Earl Hereford 3rd Earl Essex (age 38), Goronwy ap Tudur Hen Tudor, Henry Beaumont Earl Buchan (age 35), Aymer de Valence 2nd Earl Pembroke (age 39) and Robert Umfraville 8th Earl Angus (age 37) fought.
                
                    Pain Tiptoft 1st Baron Tibetot (age 34) was killed. His son John succeeded 2nd Baron Tibetot.
                
                    John Montfort 2nd Baron Montfort (age 23) was killed. Peter Montfort 3rd Baron Montfort (age 23) succeeded 3rd Baron Montfort.
                
                    Thomas Grey (age 34) undertook a suicidal charge that contributed to the English defeat and subsequently blemished his career.
                
                    William Latimer 2nd Baron Latimer of Corby (age 38) was captured.
                
                    Michael Poynings (age 44) was killed.

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In 1325 Edmund of Woodstock 1st Earl Kent (age 23) and Margaret Wake Countess Kent (age 27) were married. She by marriage Countess Kent. He the son of King Edward I of England and Margaret of France Queen Consort England. They were half second cousin twice removed. She a great x 3 granddaughter of King John of England.

In 1326 [her son] Edmund Plantagenet 2nd Earl Kent was born to [her husband] Edmund of Woodstock 1st Earl Kent (age 24) and Margaret Wake Countess Kent (age 28). He a grandson of King Edward I of England.

Before 12th October 1326 [her brother-in-law] Thomas of Brotherton 1st Earl Norfolk (age 26) and Alice Hales Countess Norfolk were married. She by marriage Countess Norfolk. He the son of King Edward I of England and Margaret of France Queen Consort England.

In 1327 [her daughter] Margaret Plantagenet was born to [her husband] Edmund of Woodstock 1st Earl Kent (age 25) and Margaret Wake Countess Kent (age 29). She a granddaughter of King Edward I of England.

Abdication of Edward II

On 25th January 1327 [her brother-in-law] King Edward II of England (age 42) abdicated King of England. His son Edward (age 14) succeeded III King of England.

Death of King Edward II

On 21st September 1327 [her brother-in-law] King Edward II of England (age 43) was murdered at Berkeley Castle [Map]. There is speculation as to the manner of his death, and as to whether he died at all. Some believe he may have lived the rest of his life in Europe.

All About History Books

The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.

On 29th September 1328 [her daughter] Joan "Fair Maid of Kent" Princess Wales was born to [her husband] Edmund of Woodstock 1st Earl Kent (age 27) and Margaret Wake Countess Kent (age 31) at Woodstock Palace, Oxfordshire [Map]. She a granddaughter of King Edward I of England.

Execution of Edmund of Woodstock

On 19th March 1330 the King's uncle [her husband] Edmund of Woodstock 1st Earl Kent (age 28) was beheaded at Winchester Castle [Map]. Earl Kent forfeit. Edmund had been convicted of plotting against the court believing his brother [her brother-in-law] King Edward II was still alive. It later emerged the plot had been created by Roger Mortimer 1st Earl March (age 42) to entrap Edmund. King Edward III of England (age 17) was unable to show leniency risking complicity in the plot. He was buried at Westminster Abbey [Map].

See Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke, Walter of Guisborough, Knighton 2555, Murimuth and Parliament Rolls.

On 7th April 1330 [her son] John Plantagenet 3rd Earl Kent was born to [her former husband] Edmund of Woodstock 1st Earl Kent (deceased) and Margaret Wake Countess Kent (age 33) at Arundel Castle [Map]. He a grandson of King Edward I of England.

Before 5th October 1331 [her son] Edmund Plantagenet 2nd Earl Kent (age 5) died. His brother [her son] John (age 1) succeeded 3rd Earl Kent.

Around March 1340 [her son-in-law] Thomas Holland 1st Earl Kent (age 26) and [her daughter] Joan "Fair Maid of Kent" Princess Wales (age 11) were married in secret. It isn't clear whether the marriage was canonical given the secrecy; there were no witnesses. She twelve years old. A subsequent investigation by papal commissioners confirmed it as valid. She the daughter of [her former husband] Edmund of Woodstock 1st Earl Kent and Margaret Wake Countess Kent (age 42). They were fourth cousin once removed. He a great x 4 grandson of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England. She a granddaughter of King Edward I of England.

Around November 1340 [her son-in-law] William Montagu 2nd Earl Salisbury (age 12) and [her daughter] Joan "Fair Maid of Kent" Princess Wales (age 12) were married. She was already married albeit secretly to [her son-in-law] Thomas Holland 1st Earl Kent (age 26). The subsequent investigation found her marriage to Thomas Holland 1st Earl Kent to be valid. She the daughter of [her former husband] Edmund of Woodstock 1st Earl Kent and Margaret Wake Countess Kent (age 43). He the son of William Montagu 1st Earl Salisbury (age 39) and Catherine Grandison Countess of Salisbury (age 36).

On 3rd April 1348 [her son] John Plantagenet 3rd Earl Kent (age 17) and [her daughter-in-law] Isabella aka Elizabeth Julich Countess Kent (age 18) were married. She by marriage Countess Kent. She the daughter of William Jülich V Duke Jülich (age 49) and Joanna Hainault Duchess Guelders (age 33). He the son of [her former husband] Edmund of Woodstock 1st Earl Kent and Margaret Wake Countess Kent (age 51). They were half second cousin once removed. He a grandson of King Edward I of England. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Stephen I England.

On 31st May 1349 [her brother] Thomas Wake 2nd Baron Wake of Liddell (age 52) died. He was buried at Haltemprice Priory [Map]. His sister Margaret (age 52) succeeded 3rd Baroness Wake of Liddell.

Black Death Plague

On 29th September 1349 Margaret Wake Countess Kent (age 52) died of plague. Her son [her son] John (age 19) succeeded 4th Baron Wake of Liddell and inherited her dower lands and the estates she had inherited from her brother [her brother] Thomas Wake 2nd Baron Wake of Liddell.