Margaret of Liddell Wake ^{1 2 3}

   Cause of her death was the bubonic plague.

  General Notes:

She was the daughter of Sir John Wake, from whom she inherited the title, 'Lady Wake of Liddel, and was descended directly from Llywelyn the Great, Prince of Gwynedd. Her mother was Joan de Fiennes, making her a cousin of Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March.

Margaret married John Comyn, son of the John Comyn who was murdered by Robert the Bruce in 1306. Her husband John died at Bannockburn, and their only child, Aymer Comyn, died a toddler in 1316. She married for a second time to Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, they having received a dispensation in October 1325, with the wedding being celebrated probably at Christmas.

Through her marriage to Edmund (who was executed for treason in 1330), she was the mother of two short-lived Earls of Kent and of Joan of Kent (wife of the Black Prince). The pregnant Margaret and her children were confined to Salisbury Castle, and her brother Thomas Wake 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. Margaret died during an outbreak of the plague.

  Noted events in her life were:

• Acceded: 30 May 1349. Baroness Wake.

Margaret married Edmund of Woodstock Plantagenet, son of Edward I of England and Marguerite of France le Hardi, in Dec 1325 in Blisworth, Northamptonshire, England. (Edmund of Woodstock Plantagenet was born on 5 Aug 1301 in Woodstock Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England, died on 19 Mar 1330 in Winchester Castle, Hampshire, England and was buried in Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London, England.) The cause of his death was beheading.