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Margaret Wake
3rd Baroness Wake of Liddell Countess of Kent
Baroness Wake of Liddell
Predecessor	Thomas Wake, 2nd Baron
Successor	John, 4th Baron, 3rd Earl of Kent
Spouse	John IV Comyn m. c. 1312; dec. 1314 Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent m. 1325; dec. 1330
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
Born	c. 1297
Died	19 September 1349

Margaret Wake, suo jure 3rd Baroness Wake of Liddell and Countess of Kent (c. 1297 – 29 September 1349) was the wife of Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, the youngest surviving son of Edward I of England and Margaret of France.

[edit]Family

She was the daughter of John Wake, 1st Baron Wake of Liddell 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 sister of Margaret de Fiennes, making Wake a cousin of Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March. Joan de Fiennes also descended from Emperor Jeanne de Brienne andBerengaria of León, herself the granddaughter of Eleanor of England, Queen of Castile.

[edit]Marriages

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 Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent. 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 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.

Margaret and Edmund's descendants include King Henry VII and queen consorts Anne Neville and