General Notes

Geoffrey Wac/Wake; allegedly of Flemish extraction and possibly kin to the Vicomtes of the Bessin, Normany; held land near Bayeux in the Bessin, also in the Channel Islands, where after Geoffrey of Anjou, husband of the Empress Maud, wrested Normandy from King Stephen in 1142 the Guernsey fief of the forfeited Vicomte of the Bessin (Ranulf of Bayeux, Earl of Chester) was divided between the Wakes and the Abbey of Mont St Michel; probably married twice and died by 1168, probably as early as 1142. [Burke's Peerage]

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Geoffrey Wac, a Norman, held land in Guernsey (island off of Normandy, France) and Cotentin in Normandy. He built a mill in the latter. Nothing is known of his wife or wives. Geoffrey's death year may have been as early as 1142 in view of the fact that his son, Hugh, was at Stephen's Court that year. Geoffrey was a witness to a Bayeux charter earl in the reign of Stephen. (From Compete Peerage, Vol 12, pt 2, p. 295; Northamptonshire Families, p. 315)