WAKE, Baron Thomas

1297 - 1349  (52 years)  Submit Photo / Document

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• Name	WAKE, Thomas
  Prefix	Baron
  Birth	20 Mar 1297	Lydell, Cumberland, England
  Christening	Bourne, Cambridgeshire, England
  Gender	Male
  Burial	May 1349	Haltemprice, Yorkshire, England
  Death	31 May 1349	Cumberland, England
  WAC	26 Sep 1939
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  Person ID	I45675	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
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  Father	WAKE, Sir John ,   b. Abt 1268, Blisworth, Northamptonshire, England Blisworth, Northamptonshire, Englandd. Bef 10 Apr 1300, Liddel, Cumberland, England (Age < 32 years)
  Mother	FITZBERNARD, Joan ,   b. 1272, Blisworth, Northamptonshire, England Blisworth, Northamptonshire, Englandd. 26 Oct 1309, Blisworth, Northamptonshire, England (Age 37 years)
  Marriage	Bef 24 Sep 1291	Kingsdown, Kent, England
  Family ID	F23920	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	PLANTAGENET, Blanche ,   b. 1297, Stevington, Bedfordshire, England Stevington, Bedfordshire, Englandd. Abt 12 Jul 1380, Stamford, Lincolnshire, England (Age 83 years)
  Marriage	Bef 9 Oct 1318	Stevington, Bedfordshire, England
  Family ID	F23777	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

• Notes

  Thomas Wake, 2nd Baron Wake of Liddell (1297 – 31 May 1349), English baron, belonged to a Lincolnshire family which had lands also in Cumberland, being the son of John Wake, 1st Baron Wake of Liddell (died 1308), who was summoned to parliament as a baron in 1295, and the grandson of Baldwin Wake (died 1282), both warriors of repute. Among Thomas Wake's guardians were Piers Gaveston and Henry, Earl of Lancaster, whose daughter Blanche (d. 1380) he married before 1317. This lady was the niece of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, and her husband was thus attached to the Lancastrian party, but he did not follow Thomas of Lancaster in the proceedings which led to his death in 1322. Hating the favourites of Edward II, Wake joined Queen Isabella in 1326 and was a member of the small council which advised the young king, Edward III; soon, however, he broke away from the queen and her ally, Roger Mortimer, and in conjunction with his father-in-law, now earl of Lancaster, he joined the malcontent barons. He was possibly implicated in the plot which cost his brother-in-law, Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, his life in 1330, and he fled to France, returning to England after the overthrow of Isabella and Mortimer. Edward III made him governor of the Channel Islands and he assisted Edward Balliol to invade Scotland, being afterwards sent on an errand to France. In 1341 he incurred the displeasure of the king and was imprisoned, but he had been restored and had been employed in Brittany and elsewhere when he died childless. His estates passed to his sister Margaret (d. 1349), widow of Edmund of Woodstock, Earl of Kent, then to her son John (d. 1352), and later to her daughter Joan who became 4th Countess of Kent. Through Joan of Kent's marriage to Thomas Holland the title and estates were passed down to the Holland family. Wake founded a monastery Haltemprice Priory for the Austin canons at Newton near Cottingham, East Riding of Yorkshire where he is buried.