Margaret Wake (1283-1372) was the wife of Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent. Events June 1 - Treaty of Rheinfelden - Duke Rudolph II of Austria has to waive his right to the Duchies of Austria and Styria Teutonic Knights subjugate Prussia Sopot comes under the control of Gdańsk Gregory Cyprius becomes Patriarch of Constantinople Northern section of the Grand Canal of China is completed... Events Births March 13 - Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans, son of king Charles V of France Princess Beatrice of Portugal, heiress to the throne during the 1383-1385 Crisis Deaths Categories: 1372 ... Edmund Plantagenet, or Edmund of Woodstock (August 5, 1301 – March 19, 1330) was Earl of Kent from July 28, 1321 (1st creation). ...

She was the daughter of Sir John Wake, from whom she inherited the title, 'Lady Wake of Liddel, and was descended directly from Llywelyn the Great, Prince of Gwynedd. Her mother was Joan de Fiennes, making her a cousin of Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March. Llywelyn ap Iorwerth ( 1173–April 11, 1240) was a Prince of Gwynedd and eventually ruler of much of Wales. ... Roger Mortimer (25 April 1287 – 29 November 1330), grandson of the 1st Baron Wigmore, was the best-known of his name. ...

Margaret married John Comyn, son of the John Comyn who was murdered by Robert the Bruce in 1306. Her husband John died at Bannockburn, and their only child, Aymer Comyn, died a toddler in 1316. She married for a second time to Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, they having received a dispensation in October 1325, with the wedding being celebrated probably at Christmas. John Comyn, Lord of Badenoch, nicknamed the Red Comyn, (died 10 February 1306) was a Scottish patriot and royal Competitor. ... Robert I, King of Scots, usually known as Robert the Bruce (July 11, 1274 – June 7, 1329, reigned 1306 – 1329), was, according to a modern biographer (Geoffrey Barrow), a great hero who lived in a minor country. ... Telfords circular roadbridge over the Bannock Burn Bannockburn is a village immediately south of the city of Stirling in Scotland. ... Edmund Plantagenet, or Edmund of Woodstock (August 5, 1301 – March 19, 1330) was Earl of Kent from July 28, 1321 (1st creation). ...

Through her marriage to Edmund (who was executed for treason in 1330), she was the mother of two short-lived Earls of Kent and of 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. Margaret died during an outbreak of the plague in 1372. Events The Bulgars under Michael III are beaten by the Serbs at Velbuzhd, and large parts of Bulgaria fall to Serbia. ... Joan, Princess of Wales (September 29, 1328–August 1385) is known to history as The Fair Maid of Kent, and was the wife of Edward, the Black Prince. ... Edward of Woodstock, Prince of Wales, KG, known as the Black Prince (June 15, 1330 – June 8, 1376) was the eldest son of King Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault. ... Thomas Wake (1297 - May 31, 1349), English baron, belonged to a Lincolnshire family which had lands also in Cumberland, being the son of John Wake (d. ... Edward III (13 November 1312 – 21 June 1377) was one of the most successful English kings of medieval times. ...