Everything about Edmund Of Woodstock 1st Earl Of Kent totally explained
Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent (
August 5,
1301 –
March 19,
1330) was a member of the
English Royal Family.
He was born at
Woodstock in
Oxfordshire, the son of
King Edward I and his second wife,
Queen Marguerite. He was 62 years younger than his father, who died when Edmund of Woodstock was only seven. Reportedly, he enjoyed his father's favour. He was summoned to
Parliament by
writ of summons on
5 August 1320, by which he's held to have become
Baron Woodstock. On
28 July 1321 he was created
Earl of Kent.
Kent was married to the
3rd Baroness Wake, daughter of the
1st Baron Wake of Liddell by Joan de Fiennes, sometime between October and December in
1325 at
Blisworth in
Northamptonshire.
In
1327, after the execution and forfeiture of the
Earl of Arundel, Kent held the castle and
honour (land) of
Arundel, although he was never formally invested with the titles appropriate to this barony. He was the father of
Joan of Kent, through whom the earldom eventually passed into the Holland family.
Kent was executed for
treason, having supported his half-brother, the deposed
King Edward II, by order of the Regents the
Earl of March and
Queen Isabella, before the outer walls of
Winchester Castle. It was said that he believed Edward II to be still alive and had conspired to rescue him 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", until a convicted murderer offered to do the deed in exchange for a pardon.
He was buried on
31 March at the Church of the
Dominican Friars in Winchester.
Kent's execution was the beginning of the end for March's regency. Thereafter, in October 1330,
King Edward III assumed the full powers of King with the support of Kent's cousin, the powerful
Earl of Lancaster. March was executed that same year for,
inter alia, having assumed the royal powers. The children and widow of the Earl of Kent were treated as members of Edward III's Royal Household.
Family
The children of Edmund, Earl of Kent, by Margaret Wake, 3rd Baroness Wake, were:
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