Edmund Plantagenet of Woodstock Earl of Kent 
Edmund Plantagenet of Woodstock was born on August 5th, 1301 in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England. Edmund Plantagenet of Woodstock's father was Edward I Longshanks King of England and his mother was Marguerite Capet le Hardi de France. His paternal grandparents were Henry III Plantagenet King of England and Eleanor Berenger de Provence; his maternal grandparents were Philippe III the Bold le Hardi King of France and Marie de Brabant. He had a brother and a sister, named Thomas de Brotherton and Eleanor. He had five half-brothers and twelve half-sisters, named John, Henry, Alfonso Plantagenet, Edward II of Caernarvon, John de Botetourt, Eleanor, Joan, Julian (Katherine), Joan of Acre Plantagenet, Margaret, Berengaria, Elizabeth, Beatrice, Blanche, Mary, Alice and Isabella. He died in Winchester, Hampshire, England.Death Notes
Beheaded.
General Notes
Edmund Plantagenet, b. 5 August, 1301, surnamed of Woodstock, from the place of his birth, 2nd son of King Edward I, was summoned to parliament by writ directed "Edmundo de Wodestok," 5 August, 1320, about two years before he attained majority. He had previously been in the wars of Scotland and had obtained considerable territorial grants from the crown. In the next year he was created Earl of Kent, and had a grant of the castle of Okham, in the co. Rutland, and shrievalty of the county. About the same time he was constituted governor of the castle of Tunbridge, in Kent, and upon the breaking out of the insurrection under Thomas Plantagenet, Earl of Lancaster, he was commissioned by the king to pursue that rebellious prince and to lay siege to the castle of Pontefract. The Earl of Lancaster was subsequently made prisoner at Boroughbridge and the Earl of Kent was one of those who condemned him to death. From this period, during the reign of his brother, Edmund, of Woodstock, was constantly employed in the cabinet or the field. He was frequently accredited on embassies to the Court of France, and was in all the wars in Gascony and Scotland. After the accession of his nephew, King Edward III, he was arrested and sentenced to death for having conspired with other nobles to deliver his brother, the deposed Edward II, out of prison, whereupon, by the management of Queen Isabel and her paramour, Mortimer, he was beheaded at Winchester (1380), after he had remained upon the scaffold from noon until five o'clock in the evening waiting for an executioner, no one being willing to undertake the horrid office till a malefactor from the Marshalsea was procured to perform it. The earl m. Margaret, dau. of John, Lord Wake, and sister and heiress of Thomas, Lord Wake, by whom (who d. 29 September, 1349) he had issue, Edmund and John, successively Earls of Kent; Margaret, m. to Amaneus, eldest son of Bernard, Lord de la Brette, and d. s. p.; and Joan, styled "the Fair Maid of Kent" for her extraordinary beauty. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 433, Plantagenet, Barons of Woodstock, Earls of Kent]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.24 Aug 1113 in Anjou, France d.07 Sep 1151 in Chateau, Eure-et-Loire, Normandy, France
- b.5 MAR 1132/33 in Le Mans, Maine, France d.06 Jul 1189 in Chinon near Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France
- b.FEB 1102/03 in London, Middlesex, England d.10 Sep 1167 in Notre Dame, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France
- b.24 Dec 1166 in Beaumont Palace, Oxford, England d.19 Oct 1216 in Newark Castle, Lincolnshire
- b.1099 in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrenees, France d.09 Apr 1137 in Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- b.1123 in Chateau de Belin-Beliet, Gironde, Aquitaine, France d.31 Mar 1204 in Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, Touraine, France
- b.~ 1105 in Chatellerault, Vienne, Poitou, France d.AFT MAR 1130/31
- b.01 Oct 1207 in Winchester Castle, Hampshire, England d.16 Nov 1272 in Westminster Palace, London, England
- b.1188 in AngoulIme, Charente, France d.31 May 1246 in Fontevrault L'Abbe, Maine-et-Loire, France
- b.17 Jun 1239 in Westminster Palace, London, Middlesex, England d.07 Jul 1307 in Burgh-on-the-Sands, near Carlisle, Cumberland, England
- b.1198 in Of Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-Du-Rhone, France d.19 Aug 1245 in Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-Du-Rhone, France
- b.1222 in Aix-en-Provence, France d.24 Jun 1291 in Amesbury, Wiltshire, England
- b.BET. 1198 - 1201 in of Ghamberg, Savoie, France d.Dec 1266 in France
- b.05 Aug 1301 in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England d.19 MAR 1329/30 in Winchester, Hampshire, England
- b.05 Nov 1187 in Paris, Seine, France d.08 Nov 1226 in Montpensier, Auvergne, France
- b.25 Apr 1214 in Chateau of Poissy, Yvelines, France d.25 Aug 1270 in near Tunis, Tunisia, Africa
- b.23 May 1188 in Chateaux de Pale, Valencia, Castile d.30 Nov 1253 in Palais du Louvre, Paris, France
- b.01 May 1245 in Poissy, Yvelines, France d.05 Oct 1285 in Perpignan, Pyrenees-Orienta, France
- b.1198 in Of Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-Du-Rhone, France d.19 Aug 1245 in Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-Du-Rhone, France
- b.1221 in St.-Maime, Forcalquier, France d.20 Dec 1295 in St. Marcel, Paris, Seine, France
- b.BET. 1198 - 1201 in of Ghamberg, Savoie, France d.Dec 1266 in France
- b.1279 in Paris, France d.14 FEB 1316/17 in Marlborough Castle, Wiltshire, England
- b.1180 in Brabant, France d.1 FEB 1247/48
- b.1233 d.1261
- b.~ 1201 d.BET. 1235 - 1244
- b.1260 in Louvain, Brabant, Belgium d.12 JAN 1320/21 in Murel
- d.23 Oct 1273
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