ID: I18226
Name: *Edmund PLANTAGENET
Sex: M
Name: Edmund of WOODSTOCK
Birth: 5 AUG 1301 in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England 1
Death: 19 MAR 1330 in Winchester Castle 2
Occupation: BET 1321 AND 1323 1st Earl of Kent 2
Occupation: BET 1321 AND 1323 Lord Wardens of the Cinque Ports 2
Burial: 31 MAR 1331 Church of the Dominican Friars in Winchester
Note:
Earl of Kent
Edmund Plantagenet, surnamed of Woodstock, Earl of Kent, married Margaret, daughter of John, Lord Wake.

Edmund Plantagenet, born August 5, 1301, surnamed of Woodstock, from the place of his birth, 2nd son of Edward I, was summoned to Parliament by writ, directed to Edmundo de Woodstock, August 5, 1320. 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. He married Margaret, Countess of Wake, daughter of John Wake, who died in 1304, and was succeeded by his son Thomas, Lord Wake, who died sine prole in 1349, leaving his sister Margaret his heir, who carried the Barony of Wake into the family of Plantagenet. They had two sons, Edmund, who became Baron Wake and Earl of Kent, but died in his minority, and was succeeded by his brother John, who also died sine prole in 1352. Their sister Margaret had also died sine prole, and the Earldom of Kent and the Baronies of Woodstock and Wake, honours of their father and a dignity of their mother, devolved upon their only surviving sister, Joan.
(Kin of Mellcene Thurman Smith, page 383)

Edmund Plantagenet, or Edmund of Woodstock (August 5, 1301 – March 19, 1330) was Earl of Kent from July 28, 1321 (1st creation).
He was born at Woodstock, Oxfordshire, the son of King Edward I of England by his second Queen consort Marguerite of France. As the youngest of the six princes he enjoyed his father's favour. Woodstock was married to Margaret Wake, the daughter of Baron John Wake by Joan, sometime between October and December in 1325 at Blisworth in Northamptonshire.
He was from 1327 'after the execution and forfeiture of John FitzAlan, 7th Earl of Arundel' 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 Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March and Queen Isabella of France', 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.
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.
(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)


Father: *Edward I "Longshanks" of ENGLAND b: 17 JUN 1239 in Westministor, London, Middlesex, England
Mother: *Marguerite of FRANCE b: 1282

Marriage 1 *Margaret WAKE b: 1283
Married: 1325 in Blisworth, Northamptonshire, England 2
Children
Edmund of KENT
John of KENT
*Joan "The Fair Maid" of KENT b: 29 SEP 1328

Sources:
Title: Kin of Mellcene Thurman Smith
Page: 383
Title: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia