General Notes

Edmund Plantagenet, husband of Margaret Wake, was born Aug. 5, 1301, surnamed of Woodstock, from the place of his birth, 2nd son of King Edward I by his 2nd wife Margaret, daughter of Philip, the Hardy, King of France, son of Louis IX, Saint Louis. "Edmundo de Woodstock" was summoned to Parliament by writ Aug. 2, 1320, about two years before he attained his 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 County of 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 (son of Edmund Plantagenet, 2nd son of Henry III, King of England), he was commissioned by the King (Edward II) to pursue that rebellious prince, and to lay siege to the Castle of Pontefract. The Earl of Lancaster was subsequently made a prisoner at Boroughbridge, and this Edmund Plantagenet, Earl of Kent, was one of those who condemned him to death. Edmund espoused the cause of his half-brother Edward II and was beheaded by Edward III.