Edmund of Woodstock Plantagenet 1 2
- Born: 5 Aug 1301, Woodstock Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England
- Marriage: Margaret of Liddell Wake in Dec 1325 in Blisworth, Northamptonshire, England
- Died: 19 Mar 1330, Winchester Castle, Hampshire, England aged 28
- Buried: Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London, England
Cause of his death was beheading.
General Notes:
He was from 1327 'after the execution and forfeiture of the 7th Earl' for the three remaining years of his life to hold the castle and honour of Arundel, although he was never formally invested with the titles appropriate to his barony. He was the father of Joan of Kent, through whom the earldom eventually passed into the Holland family.
Edmund was executed for treason, having supported his half-brother, the deposed King Edward II, by order of the 'Regents Mortimer and Queen Isabella', before the outer walls of Winchester Castle. It was said that he had conspired to rescue King Edward from prison. Such was public hostility to the execution that "he had to wait five hours for an executioner, because nobody wanted to do it".
Woodstock was buried on March 31 at the Church of the Dominican Friars in Winchester, England.
Woodstock's execution would appear a retaliation for Edward I's crushing defeat against Simon de Montfort at the Battle of Evesham in 1265, and because the king had treated his rebellious cousins with such great savagery, pursuing the surviving members of the de Montfort family relentlessly.
Noted events in his life were:
• Acceded: Earl of Kent, 1st, 28 Jul 1321.
• He was an Earl of Arundel.
Edmund married Margaret of Liddell Wake, daughter of John Wake and Joan de Fenes, in Dec 1325 in Blisworth, Northamptonshire, England. (Margaret of Liddell Wake was born in 1309 and died on 29 Sep 1349.) The cause of her death was the bubonic plague.
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