Margaret Wake, 3rd Baroness Wake
Margaret Wake, Countess of Kent, 3rd Baroness Wake (* around 1300 - 29 September 1349 ) was an English noblewoman.
She was the daughter of John Wake, 1st Baron Wake and his wife Joan. Her father died in April 1300, her mother before 1309. Her first marriage before 1314 was John Comyn , who was expelled from Scotland and the son and heir of the Scottish heir to the throne John III. Comyn, Lord of Badenoch . Her husband supported the English against the Scottish King Robert the Bruce and died on June 24, 1314 at the Battle of Bannockburn . From this marriage she had a posthumous son who, however, died as a toddler. In her second marriage, she married Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent , the youngest son of King Edward I and Margaret of France on December 25, 1325 . He was executed on March 19, 1330 as an alleged traitor.
After the childless death of her brother Thomas Wake at the end of May 1349, she inherited the title Baroness Wake , of Liddell, but died only a few months later of the bubonic plague .
She had several children with her second husband, Edmund of Woodstock, including:
- Edmund Plantagenet, 2nd Earl of Kent (around 1326-1331)
- Margaret Plantagenet (1327 – before 1352)
- Joan of Kent (1328-1385)
- ∞ Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent
- ∞ Edward of Woodstock , Prince of Wales
- John, 3rd Earl of Kent (1330–1352) ∞ Elisabeth von Jülich
Web links
- Margaret Wake, Baroness Wake on thepeerage.com , accessed July 28, 2015.
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Thomas Wake |
Baroness wake 1349 |
John Plantagenet |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wake, Margaret, 3rd Baroness Wake |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Plantagenet, Margaret Countess of Kent |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English nobles |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1300 |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 29, 1349 |