Edmund, 2nd Earl of Kent

Edmund, 2nd Earl of Kent (1326 – before 5 October 1331) was a member of the English royal family.

Life

He inherited the Earldom of Kent in 1331, a year after his father, Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, was attainted. His mother was Margaret Wake, 3rd Baroness Wake of Liddell. In 1330 he was, on the petition of his mother and the reversal of his father's condemnation, recognised as Earl of Kent.[1]

Ancestry

Notes

  1. Tout 1888.
  2. Lundy, Darryl (24 January 2013), Baldwin Wake, p. 10777 § 107762
  3. Lundy, Darryl (10 April 2012), Robert de Quincy, Lord of Ware, p. 10776 § 107760

References

  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Tout, Thomas Frederick (1888). "Edmund of Woodstock". In Stephen, Leslie. Dictionary of National Biography. 16. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
Peerage of England
Preceded by
Edmund of Woodstock
Earl of Kent
1331
Succeeded by
John, 3rd Earl of Kent
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