Margaret Wake, 3rd Baroness Wake of Liddell
| Margaret Wake | |
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| 3rd Baroness Wake of Liddell Countess of Kent |
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| Baroness Wake of Liddell | |
| Predecessor | Thomas Wake, 2nd Baron |
| Successor | John, 4th Baron, 3rd Earl of Kent |
| Born | c. 1297 |
| Died | 19 September 1349 |
| Spouse |
John IV Comyn m. c. 1312; dec. 1314 m. 1325; dec. 1330 John De Forbes m. 1331; dec. 1349 |
| Issue |
Edmund, 2nd Earl of Kent Margaret, Viscountess of Tartas Joan The Fair Maid of Kent, Countess of Kent, Princess of Wales John, 3rd Earl of Kent |
| Father | John Wake, 1st Baron Wake of Liddell |
| Mother | Joan de Fiennes |
Margaret Wake, suo jure 3rd Baroness Wake of Liddell and Countess of Kent (c. 1297 – 29 September 1349) was the wife of , the youngest surviving son of Edward I of England and Margaret of France.
She was the daughter of John Wake, 1st Baron Wake of Liddell, (son of Baldwin Wake and Hawise de Quincy) and Joan de Fiennes. By her father, she was descended from Llywelyn the Great, Prince of Gwynedd and Joan, Lady of Wales, the illegitimate daughter of John I of England. Her mother, Joan de Fiennes, was a daughter of William de Fiennes and Blanche (Lady of Loupeland) de Brienne. She was a sister of Margaret de Fiennes, making Wake a cousin of Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March. Joan de Fiennes also descended from Emperor Jean de Brienne and Berengaria of León, herself the granddaughter of Eleanor of England, Queen of Castile.
Margaret married John Comyn (c. 1294-1314) around 1312, son of the John Comyn who was murdered by Robert the Bruce in 1306. Her husband John died at the Battle of Bannockburn, and their only child, Aymer Comyn (1314–1316) died as a toddler. She married for a second time, to . They received a dispensation in October 1325, and the wedding probably took place at Christmas.
Through her marriage to Edmund of Woodstock (who was executed for treason in 1330), she was the mother of two short-lived Earls of Kent, of Margaret and Joan of Kent (wife of Edward, the Black Prince). The pregnant Margaret and her children were confined to Salisbury Castle, and her brother Thomas Wake, 2nd Baron Wake of Liddell 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. She succeeded briefly as Baroness Wake of Liddell in 1349, but died during an outbreak of the plague that autumn.
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