Emma FitzBaldwin
Female 1123 - 1168
Born, Bourne, Lincoln, Lincolnshire.
Married to Hugh Wake. Mother of Geoffrey Wake and Baldwin Wake. Daughter of Adeline Rollos and Baldwin Clare. Sister of Rose FitzBaldwin.
Emma (becoming through her feudal Lord of Bourne, Lincs), elder daughter a
nd coheir of Baldwin Fitz Gilbert/de Clare (brother of 1st Earl of Pembro
ke of the 1138 creation and son of Gilbert, feudal Lord of Clare, Suffo
lk and Cardigan, whose father Richard was son of the Count of Brionn
e, of an illegitimate line of the Dukes of Normandy), by Adeline (daught
er of Richard de Rollos, Chamberlain to Henry I, apparently by Godiva, dau
ghter of Hugh d'Envermeu by Turfrida, daughter and heiress of the Merci
an Thegn Hereward, who led Anglo-Saxon resistence to William I (The Conque
ror) 1071 and who apparently got back his pre-Conquest lands at Witham, Ba
rholm, and Rippingale about the time of the Domesday Survey 1086. [Burke
's Peerage]
T, or DE CLARE, by Adeline, daughter of Richard DE ROLLOS (d). She was de
ad in 1168. He died probably between Michaelmas 1175 and Michaelmas 117
6. [Complete Peerage XII/2:295-6, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
's lordship of Bourne to the Wakes and which led them later to adopt Herew
ard the Outlaw as their ancestor and to give him their own name as "the Wa
ke".
Sources
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