Baron Wake of Liddell is an

abeyant Abeyance (from the Old French ''abeance'' meaning "gaping") is a state of expectancy in respect of property, titles or office, when the right to them is not vesting, vested in any one person, but awaits the appearance or determination of the tru ...

title in the

Peerage of England The Peerage of England comprises all peerages created in the Kingdom of England before the Act of Union in 1707. In that year, the Peerages of England and Scotland were replaced by one Peerage of Great Britain. There are five peerages in t ...

. It was created in 1295 for John Wake. It has been in abeyance since 1408.

John Wake

John Wake was born in 1268, the son of Baldwin Wake and Hawise de Quincy.

G. E. Cokayne George Edward Cokayne, (29 April 1825 – 6 August 1911), was an English genealogist and long-serving herald at the College of Arms in London, who eventually rose to the rank of Clarenceux King of Arms. He wrote such authoritative and standar ...

; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, ''The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant'', new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, UK: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume IX, page 281. He campaigned in Gascony between 1288 and 1297. He campaigned against the Scots between 1297 and 1300. To this he was appointed Joint Captain of March of Scotland in

Cumberland Cumberland ( ) is a historic county in the far North West England. It covers part of the Lake District as well as the north Pennines and Solway Firth coast. Cumberland had an administrative function from the 12th century until 1974. From 19 ...

and Westmoreland in 1297. He fought at the

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(1298). He was to married Joan de Fenes by 24 September 1291. She was allegedly daughter of Sir John FitzBernard, of Kingsdown, Kent or William de Fenes/Fiennes, a Spanish count, and

Blanche de Brienne Blanche de Brienne, Baroness Tingry (c. 1252 – c. 1302) was the wife of William II de Fiennes, Baron of Tingry (c. 1250 – 11 July 1302). She was also known as Dame de La Loupelande, and Blanche of Acre. Family Blanche was born in a ...

, Dame de La Loupelande. Joan de Fenes was possibly a relative of

Edward I Edward I (17/18 June 1239 – 7 July 1307), also known as Edward Longshanks and the Hammer of the Scots, was King of England and Lord of Ireland from 1272 to 1307. Concurrently, he ruled the duchies of Aquitaine and Gascony as a vassal o ...

. She died just prior to 26 October 1309. John Wake, 1st Lord Wake, was created baron by

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on 24 June 1295. He died circa 10 April 1300. Through his mother, John Wake, 1st Baron Wake of Liddell was a great-great-grandson of King

John of England John (24 December 1166 – 19 October 1216) was King of England from 1199 until his death in 1216. He lost the Duchy of Normandy and most of his other French lands to King Philip II of France, resulting in the collapse of the Angevin Emp ...

. He was great-grandfather of

Richard II of England Richard II (6 January 1367 – ), also known as Richard of Bordeaux, was King of England from 1377 until he was deposed in 1399. He was the son of Edward the Black Prince, Prince of Wales, and Joan, Countess of Kent. Richard's father die ...

. The family claimed descent from

Hereward the Wake Hereward the Wake (Traditional pronunciation /ˈhɛ.rɛ.ward/, modern pronunciation /ˈhɛ.rɪ.wəd/) (1035 – 1072) (also known as Hereward the Outlaw or Hereward the Exile) was an Anglo-Saxon nobleman and a leader of local resista ...

's daughter by his second wife, Alftruda. Children of John Wake, 1st Lord Wake and Joan de Fiennes: # John Wake – died between 1320 and 1349 # Thomas Wake, 2nd Lord Wake born 20 Mar 1297/98, d. 30/31 May 1349 # Margaret Wake, born c. 1300, d. 29 September 1349

Barons Wake of Liddell (1295)

John Wake, 1st Baron Wake of Liddell John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second ...

(1268 – c. 4 October 1300)Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 3, page 4023. *

Thomas Wake, 2nd Baron Wake of Liddell Thomas Wake, 2nd Baron Wake of Liddell (129731 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 1300), who was summoned to parliament as a b ...

(1297–1349) *

Margaret Wake, 3rd Baroness Wake of Liddell Margaret Wake, ''suo jure'' 3rd Baroness Wake of Liddell and Countess of Kent (c. 1297 – 19 September 1349), was the wife of Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, the youngest surviving son of Edward I of England and Margaret of France.Marsh ...

(c. 1300 –1349) * John, 4th Baron Wake of Liddell and 3rd Earl of Kent (1330–1352) * Joan, 5th Baroness Wake of Liddell and Countess of Kent (1328–1385) * Thomas Holland, 6th Baron Wake of Liddell and 2nd Earl of Kent (1350–1397) * Thomas Holland, 7th Baron Wake of Liddell, 3rd Earl of Kent, and 1st Duke of Surrey (1374–1400) * Edmund Holland, 8th Baron Wake of Liddell and 4th Earl of Kent (1384–1408)

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