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 350 KENT. Margaret, 'la. of Sir Robert de Araick( a ), which lady most have d. before 1199. Ho m secondly, in or before 1199, .Tohanna( b ), da. of William (de Kedyehs alius be Vernon), RaHL ok Devon, by Mabel, da. of Robert, Count of Meih.an. Mo m. thirdly, in 1209. Beatrix, widow of Dodo Bardolph (who d. 1210), da of Willinrn de Waresne, of Wirmgay. He w.(e) fourthly, at York, June 1221. Margaret, da. oi William, King of Scotland (1165—12141 by Krrflengarde, da. of Richard, Vicomte Beaumont. The Earl rf. at his manor of Banstead. co. Surrey, 12 May 1243, when (having no surviving 11 ) issue by bis wife Margaret! the Earldom became txtinct.{') His widow d. (1259-60), 44 Hen. III., seized in dower of the manor of Tunstall, eo. Kent. IV. 1321, 1. EdMTTN'D Pi.antacKN'K T, trfl/lfld " of Woodstock," 5th to and yst. s. of King Edward I., being his 2d s. by bis second wife, 1 330. Margaret, da. of Philip III., Kim; of France, was h, 5 Aug. 13'tl, at Woodstock. Oxon., ami bap. bv the Hisho|i of Chichester. He wa« sum. to Pari, as a Baron [LORD WOODSTOCK) :> Aug. (1320 11 Ed. II., by writ directed " Edmundn a'c Wodestaek," and sat in Pari, under such summons.( r ) Warden of the Cinque Ports and of Kent ; Constable of Dover ami Tunbridge Castles, &c, 1321, being cr. (bv his brother, King Edward II.), 2S July 1321, EARL OK KENT (B) He was sent" to quell the insurrection of the Earl of Lancaster in 1322 and was one of those who condemned bug to death ; wal Ambassador to France, 1321; Lieut of Aqnitaine, 1324, (to., serving in all the wars in Gascony and Scotland. Shortly after Nov. 1326 he received the c;istle and honour of Arundel whereby, according ro the admission by the crown in 1 433,0') he may be considered to have become EARL OF All(JNDKLi') during his tenure of such castle. On the accession of King Edward III. he conspired to rescue and restore the deposed King. He wag arrested and condemned to death by council anil beheaded accordingly 19 March 1329/30, at Winchester, aged 28, when having been attainted all hi* honours were forfeited. He m. about 1327 Margaret, widow of John C'omyn, of Badenoch, da. of John (Wake), 1st LuRO Wake, by Joanna, <la. of Sir John FitZ Barnard, of Kingsdown, co. Kent. This lady on the death of her brother, Thomas, 2d Lord Wake. 31 May 1349, became suo jure BARONESS WAKE, being then aged 40. She d. a few months subsequently, 29 Sep. 1349. ( a ) Brooke, confirmed by Vincent, who in his ped. of De Burgh (marked " B. 2 " at the Coll. of Arms) sets her down as "uxor prima." ( h ) Tint, fia., 1 John, where it i.i stated that. Hubert the Chamberlain paid the King 60 marks for his marriage with Johanna, da. of the Earl of Devon. The lady is often Raid to have been the widow of Willinrn de Briewer, but Johanna de Briewer, according to Dugdale's mcnastieon, did not become a wid~w till 1232. ( c ) There is yet another wife generally attributed to him, viz., Isabel, suo jure Countess of Gloucester, the repudiated wife of King John and the widow of Geoffrey (De Mandeville), Earl of Essex (who d. 23 Feb. 1210), but this is a mistake. See p. 40, note *' a,*' sab 11 Gloucester," ( d ) His only da. by Margaret, of Scotland, was named Margaret, or Magota, on whom (as Margaret) her father settled Portslade, co, Sussex, in 1220-27. and to whom (ns Magota) the King in 1233-34 restored the same [see Blanche's " F.arls of Kent."] She is said to have m, (clandestinely) about 1236 Richard (de Clare Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, but was divorced or dead in 1237. She d. 9. p. before her father. See claim of John Baliol to the throne of Scotland in Rymer's " ftedcra." ( c ) Ho had two sons, John and Hubert, by Beatrix, his former wife, of whom (1) John was knighted as early as 1220 and was father of John de Burgh who d. s.p.m. 1279 leaving three daughters the coheirs of this family, while (2) Hubert is (according to Dugdale, ic), ancestor of the Lords Burgh de Gaynesboro.' ( f ) Ht was not. however, included in the next writ of summons, life., 15 May 1321. three months after which date he was cr. Earl of Kent, but says Nicolas, " as it appears that the Earl of Kent sat in Pari, as a Baron under the writ of 14 Ed. II- « Barony in fee teas thereby created." (B) " Per ciacturam gladii " according to Sandford, (») See vol. i, p. 138, note " e," tub " Arundel." (') See. however, vol. i, p. 146, note " g," for Courthope's remarks hereon.