Family Card - Person Sheet
Family Card - Person Sheet
NameEdmund of Woodstock Plantagenet
Birth5 Aug 1301, Woodstock Palace, Oxfordshire, England
Death19 Mar 1330, Winchester Castle, Hampshire, England
BurialWestminster Abbey, London, England
MotherMarguerite Capet of France (1282-1317)
Misc. Notes
He was from 1327 'after the execution and forfeiture of the 7th Earl' for the three remaining years of his life to hold the castle and honour of Arundel, although he was never formally invested with the titles appropriate to his barony. He was the father of Joan of Kent, through whom the earldom eventually passed into the Holland family.

Edmund was executed for treason, having supported his half-brother, the deposed King Edward II, by order of the 'Regents Mortimer and Queen Isabella', before the outer walls of Winchester Castle. It was said that he had conspired to rescue King Edward from prison. Such was public hostility to the execution that "he had to wait five hours for an executioner, because nobody wanted to do it".

Woodstock was buried on March 31 at the Church of the Dominican Friars in Winchester, England.

Woodstock's execution would appear a retaliation for Edward I's crushing defeat against Simon de Montfort at the Battle of Evesham in 1265, and because the king had treated his rebellious cousins with such great savagery, pursuing the surviving members of the de Montfort family relentlessly.
Spouses
Birth1309
Death29 Sep 1349
MarriageDec 1325, Blisworth, Northamptonshire, England
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