Edmund Plantagenet 
Edmund was born on August 5th, 1301 in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England. Edmund's father was Edward I 'Longshanks' and his mother was Marguerite Capet de Hondi. His paternal grandparents were Henry III Plantagenet and Elâonore Bâerenger; his maternal grandparents were Philip III "The Bold" Capet and Marie of Brabant. He had a brother and a sister, named Thomas and Eleanor. He had five half-brothers and eleven half-sisters, named John, Henry, Alfonso, Edward, John, Eleanor, Juliana 'Katherine', Joan, Margaret, Berengaria, Elizabeth, Beatrice, Blanche, Nun at Amesbury, Isabella and Alice. He died in Winchester, Hampshire, England.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.
From this period, during the remainder of the reign of his brother, Edward II, Edmund Plantagenet, 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. But on 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 (wife of Edward II) and her paramour, Mortimer, he was beheaded at Winchester, in 1380, after having remained on the scaffold from noon until five in the evening, waiting for an executioner, no one being willing to undertake the horrid office, till a malefactor was procured to perform it. Margaret Wake married 1st John Comyn of Badenaugh, who died sine prole, and married 2nd this Edmund Plantagenet, who was created Earl of Kent July 28, 1322 (15th of Edward II) and was beheaded March 19, 1330 (Margaret died Sept. 29, 1349). By him she had 4 children:
(1) Edmund Plantagenet was restored in blood and honours by Parliament the year his father suffered death, and thus became Baron Woodstock and Earl of Kent, but died soon in his minority, unmarried, and was succeeded by his brother,
(2) John Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Kent, who married Elizabeth, daughter of the Duke of Juliers, but died sine prole in 1352, when the Earldom of Kent, and the Baronies of Woodstock and Wake, Honours the first two of father and last one of their mother, devolved upon his only surviving sister Joane, Fair Maid of Kent.
(3) Margaret Plantagenet married Amaneus, eldest son of Bernard, Lord de la Brette, and died sine prole.
(4) Joane Plantagenet, of whom further.
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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, France
- b.25 Mar 1133 in Le Mans, Anjou, France d.06 Jul 1189 in Chinon Castle, France
- b.1103 in Winchester, England d.10 Sep 1167 in Abbey of Notre Dame des Pres, Rouen, France
- b.1166 in Kings Manor House, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England d.19 Oct 1216 in Newark Castle, Newark, Nottinghamshire
- b.1099 in Aquitaine, France d.19 Apr 1137 in France
- b.~ 1122 in Chateau de Belin, Guinne, France d.01 Apr 1204 in Fontevrand Abbey, Maine-et-Loire, France
- b.~ 1103 in Chatellerault, Poitou, Aquitaine d.MAR 1129/30
- b.01 Oct 1207 in Winchester, England d.16 Nov 1272 in London, England
- b.~ 1130 in Angoulême, Charente-Maritime, France d.1178
- b.~ 1160 in Angoulême, Charente-Maritime, France d.1218 in L'abbey La Couroun, France
- b.~ 1130 in Turenne, France
- b.~ 1180 in Angoulême, Charente, France d.31 May 1246 in Fontevrault Abbey, Fontevrault Maine-Et-Loire, France
- b.1128 in Reims, Champagne, France d.1183 in Palestine
- b.~ 1160 in Courtenay, Galinois, France d.1218 in L'abbey La Couroun, France
- b.~ 1138 in Courtenay, Galinois, France d.14 Sep 1205 in Abbey Ford, Devonshire, England
- b.17 Jun 1239 in Westminster Palace, London, England d.07 Jul 1307 in Burgh-on-the Sands, Cumberland, England
- b.1151 in Huesca, Spain d.25 Apr 1196 in Perpignan, Pyrbenbees-Orientales, France
- b.1180 in Aragon, Zaragoza, Spain d.FEB 1208/09 in Palermo, Sicily
- b.21 Sep 1154 in Toledo, Castile, Spain d.Nov 1208 in Monastery of Sijena, Spain
- b.1195 in Aix-en-Provence, Provence, France d.19 Aug 1245 in Aix-en-Provence, Provence, France
- b.~ 1159 in Sabran, Gard, France d.1224
- b.~ 1181 in Forcalquiers, Basses-Alpes, France d.1224
- b.~ 1160 in Forcalquier, Alpes-De-Haute-Provence, France d.1193
- b.1217 in Provence, France d.24 Jun 1291 in Amesbury, Wiltshire, England
- b.01 Aug 1136 in Savoy, France d.4 MAR 1187/88 in Cyprus
- b.20 May 1177 in Carbonierres, Savoie, France d.1 MAR 1232/33 in Aoste, Isere, France
- b.1145 in Vienne, France d.08 Apr 1230 in Château De Vizilles, , France
- b.~ 1201 in Chambery, Savoie, France d.1266
- b.1130 in Geneva, Switzerland d.27 Jul 1195
- b.~ 1180 in Geneva, Switzerland d.08 Apr 1257 in Pierre-Chatel, Isere, France
- b.~ 1150 in Faucigny, Haute-Savoie, France
- b.05 Aug 1301 in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England d.19 MAR 1329/30 in Winchester, Hampshire, England
- b.21 Aug 1165 in Paris, Isle-de-France, France d.14 Jul 1223
- b.05 Sep 1187 in Paris, Isle-de-France, France d.07 Nov 1226
- b.05 Apr 1170 in Mons, Hainault, Belgium d.15 MAR 1189/90
- b.25 Apr 1214 in Paris, Isle-de-France, France d.25 Aug 1270 in Tunis, Africa
- b.11 Nov 1155 in Soria, Castile, Spain d.06 Oct 1214 in Gutierre Munoz, Avila, Castile, Spain
- b.~ 1190 in Castile, Spain
- b.13 Oct 1162 in Domfront, Normandy, France d.31 Oct 1214 in Burgos, Spain
- b.30 Apr 1245 in Poissy, France d.05 Oct 1285 in Perpignan, Toulouse, France
- b.1180 in Aragon, Zaragoza, Spain d.FEB 1208/09 in Palermo, Sicily
- b.1195 in Aix-en-Provence, Provence, France d.19 Aug 1245 in Aix-en-Provence, Provence, France
- b.~ 1181 in Forcalquiers, Basses-Alpes, France d.1224
- b.~ 1220 in Aix-en-Provence, Provence, France d.21 Dec 1295 in Paris, France
- b.20 May 1177 in Carbonierres, Savoie, France d.1 MAR 1232/33 in Aoste, Isere, France
- b.~ 1201 in Chambery, Savoie, France d.1266
- b.~ 1180 in Geneva, Switzerland d.08 Apr 1257 in Pierre-Chatel, Isere, France
- b.1275 in Paris, Isle de France, France d.14 FEB 1316/17 in Marlborough Castle, Wiltshire, England
- b.~ 1158 in Louvaine, Flandres, France d.05 Sep 1235
- b.~ 1207 in Brabant, Flandres, France d.1 FEB 1246/47
- b.~ 1162 in Boulogne, France d.1211
- b.~ 1235 in Brabant, Flandres, France d.1261
- b.1176 in Schwaben, Bavaria d.21 Jun 1208 in Murdered at Bamberg, Oberfranken, Bavaria, by Otto of Wittlesbach
- b.1201 in Swabia, Germany
- b.1184 in Constantinople, Turkey d.27 Aug 1208
- b.~ 1253 in Louvain, Brabant, France d.12 JAN 1320/21 in Mure, France
- b.1166 in Bourgogne, France d.06 Jul 1218 in Lyon, Rhone, France
- b.9 MAR 1211/12 in Bourgogne, France d.FEB 1272/73
- b.1188 in Bourgogne, France
- b.~ 1238 in Bourgogne, France d.23 Oct 1273
- b.1185 in Braine, France d.3 MAR 1233/34 in Dreux, Bretagne, France
- b.1212 in Dreux, France
- b.~ 1192 in Haseldene, Gloucestershire, England d.15 Nov 1250
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Children
Joane Plantagenet
Joane was born on September 29th, 1328 in Woodstock, Kent, England. She died at the age of 56 on August 8th, 1385 in Wallingford Castle, Berkshire, England.
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