Edmund of Woodstock Plantagenet 1st Earl of Kent [4238] ^24,25

   Cause of his death was Beheaded.

  General Notes:

Knight of the Garter. Beheaded. Earl of Arundel. Weir suggests that Robert and Thomas were fictional sons of Edmund. The Complete Peerage v ol.VII,pp.142-148. This great Earl of Kent was beheaded at Winchester in 1380, after he had remained upon the scaffold from noon until five o'clock in the evening, waiting for an executioner; he was so loved by the peop le that no one was willing to undertake the horrid office, till a malefactor from the Marshalsea was procured to perform it.

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Edmund married Margaret of Liddell Wake Baroness Wake [5412] [MRIN: 1709], daughter of Lord John of Lidell Wake 1st Baron Wake [4243] and Joan (Joanna) de Fiennes [10573], on 25 Dec 1325. (Margaret of Liddell Wake Baroness Wake [5412] was born about 1309 and died on 29 Sep 1349.)