Emma FitzBaldwin , Heiress of Bourne 
Emma was born about 1123 in Bourne, Lincolnshire, England. Emma's father was Baldwin FitzGilbert de Clare , Lord of Bourne and her mother was Adeline de Rollos , Heiress of Bourne. Her paternal grandparents were Gilbert Fitz Richard de Clare , Earl Hertford and Adeliza de Claremont; her maternal grandparents were Richard de Rollos , Lord of Bourne and Godiva d' Envermeu , Heiress of Bourne. She had a sister named Rose. She was the older of the two children. She died in 1168.General Notes
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. [Burke's Peerage]
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He [Hugh Wac] married Emma, daughter and coheir of Baldwin FiTZGILBERT, or DE CLARE, by Adeline, daughter of Richard DE ROLLOS (d). She was dead in 1168. He died probably between Michaelmas 1175 and Michaelmas 1176. [Complete Peerage XII/2:295-6, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
(d) . . . It was the marriage of Hugh Wac to Emma which brought her mother's lordship of Bourne to the Wakes and which led them later to adopt Hereward the Outlaw as their ancestor and to give him their own name as "the Wake".
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 0980 in Brionne, Eure, Normandy, France d.1040 in Assassinated
- b.< 1035 in Brionne, Eure, Normandy, France d.May 1089 in Priory of St Neot, Cambridgeshire, England
- b.~ 1009 in Eu, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France
- b.< 1066 in Clare, Suffolk, England d.< 1117 in of Tonbridge, Kent, England & Cardigan, Wales
- b.~ 1010 in Longueville, Normandy, France d.1084 in France
- b.~ 1036 in Longueville, Normandy, France d.> 1133
- b.~ 1014 in Longueville, Normandy, France d. in France
- b.1088 in Clare, Suffolk, England d.1154 in Bourne, Lincolnshire, England
- b.~ 1072 in Clermont, Beauvais, Oise, France
- b.~ 1123 in Bourne, Lincolnshire, England d.1168
- b.1060 in Rollos, Normandy, France d. in Bourne, Lincolnshire, England
- b.1092 in Bourne, Lincolnshire, England
- b.1075 in Deeping & Skellingthorpe, Lincolnshire, England
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Children
Geoffrey Wake
Geoffrey was born about 1147 in Bourne, Lincolnshire, England. He died after 1200 in Liddell, Cumberland, England.
Baldwin Wake , Lord of Bourne, Sir
Baldwin was born about 1150 in Bourne, Lincolnshire, England. He died before September 29th, 1198.
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