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THOMAS WAKE (1297-1349)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 247 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMAS See also:WAKE (1297-1349)  , See also:English See also:baron, belonged to a See also:Lincolnshire See also:family which had lands also in See also:Cumberland, being the son of See also:John See also:Wake (d . 1300), who was summoned to See also:parliament as a baron in 1295, and the See also:grandson of See also:Baldwin Wake (d . 1282), both barons and warriors of repute . Among See also:Thomas Wake's guardians were Piers See also:Gaveston and See also:Henry, See also:earl of See also:Lincoln, whose daughter See also:Blanche (d . 1357) he married before 1317 . This See also:lady was the niece of Thomas, earl of See also:Lancaster, and her See also:husband was thus attached to the Lancastrian party, but he did not follow Earl Thomas in the proceedings which led to his See also:death in 1322 . Hating the favourites of See also:Edward II . Wake joined See also:Queen See also:Isabella in 1326 and was a member of the small See also:council which advised the See also:young See also:king, Edward III.; soon, however, he See also:broke away from the queen and her ally, See also:Roger See also:Mortimer, and ,in See also:conjunction with his See also:father-in-See also:law, now earl of Lancaster, he joined the malcontent barons . He was possibly implicated in the See also:plot which cost his See also:brother-in-law, See also:Edmund, earl of See also:Kent, his See also:life in 1330, and he fled to See also:France, returning to See also:England after the overthrow of Isabella and Mortimer . Edward III. made him See also:governor of the Channel Islands and he assisted Edward See also:Bruce to invade See also: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 See also:Brittany and elsewhere when he died childless on the 31st of May 1349 . His estates passed to his See also:sister See also:Margaret (d .

1349), widow of Edmund, earl of Kent, and her son John (d . 1352), and later to the See also:

Roland family . Wake established a See also:house for the See also:Austin canons at See also:Newton near See also:Hull; this was afterwards transferred to Haltemprice in the same neighbourhood .

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