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Birth:          ABT 1297 
Death:          29 Sep 1349 

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Wake,_3rd_Baroness_Wake_of_Liddell
Margaret Wake, suo jure 3rd Baroness Wake of Liddell and Countess of Kent (c. 1297 
– 29 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.
Family[edit]

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 father, she was descended 
from Llywelyn the Great, Prince of Gwynedd and Joan, Lady of Wales, the illegitimate 
daughter of John I of England. Her mother, Joan de Fiennes, was a daughter of 
William de Fiennes and Blanche (Lady of Loupeland) de Brienne. She was a sister of 
Margaret de Fiennes, making Wake a cousin of Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March. 
Joan de Fiennes also descended from Emperor Jean de Brienne and Berengaria of 
León, herself the granddaughter of Eleanor of England, Queen of Castile.

Marriages[edit]

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, to 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 Kent, of Margaret and Joan of 
Kent (wife of Edward, the Black Prince). The pregnant Margaret and her children were 
confined to Salisbury Castle, and her brother Thomas Wake, 2nd Baron Wake of 
Liddell was accused of treason but later pardoned. When King Edward III of England 
reached his majority and overthrew the regents, he took in Margaret and her children 
and treated them as his own family. She succeeded briefly as Baroness Wake of 
Liddell in 1349, but died during an outbreak of the plague that autumn.

Margaret and Edmund's descendants include King Henry VII and queen consorts Anne 
Neville, Elizabeth of York, and Catherine Parr.
Depictions in fiction[edit]

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 Emma Campion which 
primarily focuses on her daughter Joan of Kent's struggle to validate her secret 
marriage to Thomas Holland after her family forces her into a marriage with William 
Montacute, and her close, often uncomfortable relationship with her cousin and future 
husband Edward, Prince of Wales.

Parents
WAKE John (ABT 1268 - ABT 10 Apr 1300)
DE FIENNES Joan (ABT 1273 - 1309)

Siblings
WAKE Margaret (ABT 1297 - 29 Sep 1349)

Marriage To ____ Edmund "of Woodstock" (5 Aug 1301 - 19 Mar 1330)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
PLANTAGENET Edward I "Longshanks" (17 Jun 1239 - 7 Jul 1307)
OF FRANCE Margaret (Marguerite) (1282 - 14 Feb 1318)

Children by ____ Edmund "of Woodstock" 5 Aug 1301 - 19 Mar 1330
____ Joan "Fair Maid of Kent" (29 Sep 1328 - 8 Aug 1385)

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