Wake

The Wakes were a warrior family of Lincolnshire, with estates in Cumberland; Baldwin Wake and his son John, first Baron Wake of Liddell in 1295, were soldiers. John's son Thomas inherited as a child and was ward first to Piers Gaveston, then to Henry, Earl of Lancaster, whose daughter Blanche he married before 1317.

He joined Queen Isabella's rising against Edward II in 1326 and sat on Edward III's early council, but fell out with Isabella and Roger Mortimer and fled to France in 1330, returning after their fall. He governed the Channel Islands and backed Edward Balliol's invasion of Scotland.

Thomas died childless in 1349 and was buried at the priory he had founded at Haltemprice in Yorkshire; his lands passed through his sister Margaret to the earls of Kent and then the Holland family, and the barony fell into abeyance in 1408.