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WAKE Baldwin
Birth: ABT 1150 Bourne, Lincolnshire, England
Death: BEF 29 Sep 1198
Notes
d 1197/1198
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin_of_Clare
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Baldwin Wake; feudal Lord of Bourne; benefactor of Bourne, Vandry, Longues, Mont
St Michael and Prudhomme Abbeys; King's Constable in England; as well as
Hereward's old lands at Witham and Barholm, held Deeping, also in the Fens; married
Agnes (married 2nd Randulph de Vernay and died in or after spring 1224), daughter of
William du Hommet, hereditary Constable of Normandy; and died by early autumn
1198. [Burke's Peerage]
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BALDWIN WAKE, son and heir, rendered account of 200 marks in Lincolnshire in
1176 as he had, without royal permission, given in marriage a lady who was in the
King's gift. He was at Westminster, 3 September 1189, for the Coronation of Richard I,
was with the King at St. Albans, 7 September following, was one of the hostages, for
the payment of Richard's ransom, February 1193/4, and went to the King in Germany
in 1195. Shortly before his death he, together with William Briwerre, tallaged the city
of Gloucester.
He married Agnes, daughter of William du HOMMET, hereditary Constable of
Normandy (who gave her in frank-marriage his moiety of Lower Winchendon, Bucks),
by his wife Lucy. He died before Michaelmas 1198. Agnes married, 2ndly, Ranulph DE
VERNAY and was living in Trinity 1224. [Complete Peerage XII/2:297, (transcribed by
Dave Utzinger)]
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Held the barony of Bourne, Lincolnshire and was Seigneur of Negreville in Normandy.
He was at Westminster on September 3, 1189, for the coronation of Richard I, was
with the King at St. Albans, September 7, 1190 and visited the King in Germany in
1195. With William Briwere he taxed the city of Gloucester not long before his death
(Complete Peerage).
He increased grants to the religious houses at Bourne and Deeping, attended Richard
I's coronation at Westminister in 1189, and was one of the hostages for the payment
of the King's ransom of 150,000 marks in February 1194 after Richard had been taken
prisoner by the Duke of Austria .
Parents
WAKE Hugh (ABT 1120 - BEF 29 Sep 1176)
DE CLARE Emma Fitz Gilbert (ABT 1130 - 1168)
Siblings
WAKE Baldwin (ABT 1150 - BEF 29 Sep 1198)
Marriage To DU HOMMET Agnes (ABT 1163 - AFT Apr 1224)
m.
Notes
Parents
DU HOMMET William (ABT 1130 - ABT 1213)
DE LA HAYE Lucy (ABT 1146 - )
Children by DU HOMMET Agnes ABT 1163 - AFT Apr 1224
WAKE Baldwin (1183 - BEF 20 Jul 1213)
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