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Birth:          ABT 1120 Negreville, Manche, Normandy
Death:          BEF 29 Sep 1176 Bourne, Lincolnshire, England

Notes
d 1175/1176
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin_of_Clare
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I11723
Hugh Wac/Wake; Seigneur de Negreville, near Valognes, Cotentin Peninsula; as well 
as his Norman and Guernsey fiefs helf over 16 knight's fees in England; living 1142; 
founder 1168 Benedictine Abbey of Longues, Calvados; gave Wilsford, Lincs to Le 
Bec Abbey; married Emma (becoming through her feudal Lord of Bourne, Lincs), elder 
daughter and coheir of Baldwin Fitz Gilbert/de Clare (brother of 1st Earl of Pembroke 
of the 1138 creation and son of Gilbert, feudal Lord of Clare, Suffolk and Cardigan, 
whose father Richard was son of the Count of Brionne, of an illegitimate line of the 
Dukes of Normandy), by Adeline (daughter of Richard de Rollos, Chamberlain to Henry 
I, apparently by Godiva, daughter of Hugh d'Envermeu by Turfrida, daughter and 
heiress of the Mercian Thegn Hereward, who led Anglo-Saxon resistence to William I 
(The Conqueror) 1071 and who apparently got back his pre-Conquest lands at Witham, 
Barholm, and Rippingale about the time of the Domesday Survey 1086), and died 
probably between early autumn 1175 and early autumn 1176. [Burke's Peerage]

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HUGH WAC, 1st son and heir, "a noble man," was with King Stephen at Stamford in 
1142; but was with the Earl of Chester at Devizes in 1153, when he witnessed ex 
parte comitis the charter for the Earl of Henry, Duke of Normandy. About 1150 he 
made a feoffrnent of land in Waltham on the Wolds, co. Leicester; in 1161-62 the 
Sheriff of cos. Warwick and Leicester answered for the scutage of Hugh; in 1164-65 
Hugh paid £38 2. 6. in Lincolnshire; and in 1166 he answered for 10 1/8 knights' fees 
from Bourne, Lincs, his wife's inheritance. In 1168 he founded the Abbey of Longues 
and made numerous gifts thereto for the souls of his father and mother, of Baldwin 
FitzGilbert and his daughter Emma, Hugh's wife, and for the salvation of his children 
Baldwin and Geoffrey and the others. He also gave Wilsford, Lincs, to the Abbey of Le 
Bec.

He married Emma, daughter and coheir of Baldwin FiTZGILBERT, or DE CLARE, by 
Adeline, daughter of Richard DE ROLLOS. She was dead in 1168. He died probably 
between Michaelmas 1175 and Michaelmas 1176. [Complete Peerage XII/2:295-6, 
(transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

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Seigneur of Negreville in Normandy, France, and, in 1168, founder of Longues Abbey. 
Hugh was with King Stephen at Stamford in 1142, and was with the Earl of Chester at 
Devizes and Roger Wake in 1153 when he witnessed the charter for the Earl of 
Henry, Duke of Normandy.

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From Northamptonshire Families, p. 315:
"In 1166 he made the return for the barony of Bourne, and at this time he was also 
holding single knights' fees under Humphrey de Bohun, the Earl of Gloucester and Earl 
Simon of Northampton and probably held of Robert of Stafford and of the Earl of 
Chester as well. In Normandy his lands lay at Negreville and St. Hilaire de Petitville in 
the Contentin peninsula...and at Longues in the Bessin, whilst to these must be added 
his inheritance in Guernsey. This rich baron founded in 1168 a Benedictine abbey at 
Longues near Bayeux, which he endowed from his Norman lands, one Roger Wac 
being witness to his foundation charter."

Parents
WAC [WAKE] Geoffrey (BEF 1100 - BEF 1168)
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Siblings
WAKE Hugh (ABT 1120 - BEF 29 Sep 1176)

Marriage To DE CLARE Emma Fitz Gilbert (ABT 1130 - 1168)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
DE CLARE Baldwin Fitz Gilbert (ABT 1088 - 1171)
DE ROLLOS Adeline (ABT 1098 - )

Children by DE CLARE Emma Fitz Gilbert ABT 1130 - 1168
WAKE Baldwin (ABT 1150 - BEF 29 Sep 1198)

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