Baldwin Wake , Lord of Bourne, Sir 
Baldwin was born about 1150 in Bourne, Lincolnshire, England. Baldwin's father was Hugh Wake , Seigneur de Negreville and his mother was Emma FitzBaldwin , Heiress of Bourne. His paternal grandfather was Geoffrey Wake , Seigneur de Negreville; his maternal grandparents were Baldwin FitzGilbert de Clare , Lord of Bourne and Adeline de Rollos , Heiress of Bourne. He had a brother named Geoffrey. He was the younger of the two children. 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 .
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.< 1100 in Negreville, Manche, Normandy, France d.< 1168
- b.~ 1120 in Negreville, Manche, Normandy, France d.<29 Sep 1176 in Bourne, Lincolnshire, England
- b.~ 1150 in Bourne, Lincolnshire, England d.<29 Sep 1198
- 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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