Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent

Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent (* August 5, 1301 in Woodstock Palace, † (executed ) March 19, 1330 in Winchester ), was an English nobleman.

Life

Edmund was the son of Edward I of England from his second marriage with Margaret (1282-1318), daughter of King Philip III. of France.

Edmund of Woodstock supported his older half- brother Edward II during an uprising English nobleman in 1321, which was directed mainly against Edward's favorite, Hugh le Despenser. Edmund besieged Pontefract and was assessor in the Tribunal against the leader of the rebellion Thomas Plantagenet, 2nd Earl of Lancaster. Then Edmund in 1321 was raised to the Earl of Kent.

1324 he was appointed by the King to the Lieutenant of Aquitaine, where he had to defend itself against an invasion of Charles de Valois. He participated in 1326 in the conspiracy of Queen Isabella against her husband, Edward II and was after his forced abdication to the regency council for the minor Edward III. Still suspects in the same year, to want to free the now murdered, but still incarcerated believed King Edmund was accused of high treason and beheaded on March 19, 1330 in Winchester.

Progeny

Edmund married in December 1325 Margaret (* 1300, † September 29, 1349 ), daughter of John Wake, 1st Baron Wake of Liddell, with whom he had the following children:

  • Edmund (1326-1331), 2nd Earl of Kent, Baron Woodstock
  • Margaret (* 1327, † before 1352) ∞ Amadeus de La Brette, Lord of Albret
  • Joan (1328-1385)
  • John (1330-1352), 3rd Earl of Kent ∞ about 1352 Elizabeth, daughter of Duke William of Jülich
296633
de