Baldwin Wake , Lord of Bourne, Sir 
Baldwin was born about 1150 in Bourne, Lincolnshire, England. He died before September 29th, 1198.General Notes
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 .
‌Baldwin and Agnes du were married in a religious ceremony in 1st husband. They had a son named Baldwin.
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Baldwin Wake , Lord of Bourne, Sir
Baldwin was born about 1180 in Bourne, Lincolnshire, England. He died before July 20th, 1213 in Gascony, France (killed by crossbow while besieging a caslte).
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