Name Suffix:<NSFX> Lord Of Bourne
Ancestral File Number:<AFN> 924H-WK
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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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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