General Notes

Baldwin Wake; feudal Lord of Bourne; apparently imprisoned by King John 1207; pardoned by 1210 and regranted his English lands, retaining also his Guernsey ones but losing his Norman ones (his efforts to retain which by currying favour with the French probably occasioning his quarrel with John) following the overrunning of John's territory in Normandy by the French 1206; married Isabel (died in or after 1224), eventual coheiress of estates that included the Manor of Blisworth, Northants which remained with the Wakes till Henry VIII's reign, widow of Foubert de Douvres and daughter of William Briwere, Sheriff of Bucks, Berks, Derbys, Devon, Nottingham and Oxon, and was allegedly killed by a crossbow bolt before 20 July 1213 while besieging a castle in Gascony.  [Burke's Peerage]

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BALDWIN WAKE, son and heir, made fine in 1201, together with his grandfather William du Hommet, for possession of his lands in England and Normandy, promising not to marry without the King's consent. In August 1204 he was allowed to have his English lands if he gave 4 hostages to Crown representatives; but in 1207 he came into conflict with the King, being forced to choose between England and Normandy. His lands were seized in March 1206/7 and he was ordered to leave the realm, but he seems to have been imprisoned in June following. It is not known when he was restored to royal favour but at Michaelmas 1210 he appears among the witnesses of a charter.

He married Isabel, widow of Foubert DE DOUVRES (a), daughter of William BRIWERRE, by his wife Beatrice. He died before 20 July 1213. Isabel was living, 1224, but died before 10 June 1233.  [Complete Peerage XII/2:297-8, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

(a) G. A. Moriarty, "The First House of De Douvres or De Chilham," in The New England Hist. and Geneal. Reg., vol cv, pp. 39-40.  It was formerly believed that the family to which Foubert belonged took its name from Dover, but Round suggested that the name was derived from Douvres in the Bessin and the evidence which he adduced seems to be convincing.

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Held the barony of Bourne in Lincolnshire, and had lands in Normandy. With his Grandfather William de Hommet, he paid a fine in 1201 for possession of his lands in England and Normandy and promised not to marry without the King's consent. In August 1204 he was allowed to have his English lands if he gave four hostages to Crown representatives, but then in 1207 came into conflict with the King and was forced to choose between England and Normandy. His lands were seized in March 1206/07 and was apparently imprisoned in June. He was restored to favor, as he was a witness to a charter. He is said to have been killed by a cross-bow bolt at the siege of a castle in Gascony (Complete Peerage, v. 12-2, p. 297, 298).