Thomas Wake, 2nd Baron Wake of Liddell (129731 May 1349),

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baron, belonged to a

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family which had lands also in

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, being the son of

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(died 1300), 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

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and Henry, Earl of Lancaster, whose daughter Blanche (died 1380) he married before 1317. This lady was the niece of

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, 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

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, Wake joined Queen Isabella in 1326 and was a member of the small council which advised the young king,

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; 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,

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, his life in 1330, and he fled to

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, returning to England after the overthrow of Isabella and Mortimer. Edward III made him governor of the

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and he assisted

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to invade

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, 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

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and elsewhere when he died childless. His estates passed to his sister Margaret (died 1349), widow of Edmund of Woodstock, Earl of Kent, then to her son

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(died 1352), and later to her daughter

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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

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for the Austin canons at Newton near Cottingham, East Riding of Yorkshire where he is buried.

References

* A. H. Stamp, ''A Brief History of Haltemprice Priory''. (1989) Cottingham Local History Society. .

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wake, Thomas 1297 births 1349 deaths 2 People from Lincolnshire 14th-century English people People from Cottingham, East Riding of Yorkshire