WAKE, THOMAS (1297-1349)

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WAKE, THOMAS (1297-1349) , English baron, belonged to a Lincolnshire family which had lands also in Cumberland,
being the son of John

Wake

(d. 1300), who was summoned to

parliament

PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

as a baron in 1295, and the grandson of Baldwin

Wake

(d. 1282), both barons and warriors of repute. Among Thomas Wake's guardians were Piers Gaveston and

Henry

earl

EARL

of Lincoln, whose daughter Blanche (d. 1357) he married before 1317. This lady was the niece of Thomas,

earl

EARL

Lancaster

LANCASTER
LANCASTER,
HOUSE
- HOUSE
- HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
  Gothic
  - GOTHIC
  it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)
OF
LANCASTER, JOHN OF GAUNT
LANCASTER, JOSEPH (1778-1838)
LANCASTER, SIR JAMES (f1. 1591—1618)
LANCASTER, THOMAS, EARL OF (c. 1277-1322)

, and her husband was thus attached to the Lancastrian party, but he did not follow Earl Thomas 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

LANCASTER
LANCASTER,
HOUSE
- HOUSE
- HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
  Gothic
  - GOTHIC
  it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)
OF
LANCASTER, JOHN OF GAUNT
LANCASTER, JOSEPH (1778-1838)
LANCASTER, SIR JAMES (f1. 1591—1618)
LANCASTER, THOMAS, EARL OF (c. 1277-1322)

, he joined the malcontent barons. He was possibly implicated in the plot which cost his brother-in-law, Edmund, 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

GOVERNOR (from the Fr. gouverneur, from gouverner, O. Fr. governer, Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, to direct, guide)

of the Channel Islands and he assisted Edward Bruce 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 on the 31st of May 1349. His estates passed to his sister Margaret (d. 1349), widow of Edmund, earl of Kent, and her son John (d. 1352), and later to the Roland family. Wake established a house for the Austin canons at Newton near
Hull; this was afterwards transferred to Haltemprice in the same neighbourhood.

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