Baldwin Wake

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• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Balwin Wake, son and heir of Hugh Wake, said to be aged 38 in 1276, was given seisin of his lands, 20 Oct 1259. At Easter 1260 he came to London to aid the King; and in Sep 1261 he swore to be faithful to the Crown, and he was summoned to London to support Henry III, Oct following. He expressed his willingness, 13 Dec 1263, to accept the arbitration of King Louis in the quarrel between the barons and the King; but in the following year he was among the rebels captured by the Royal forces at Northampton and was imprisoned in Nottingham Castle. He was released after the victory of the barons at Lewes in 1264, but was again captured by Prince Edward at Kenilworth just before the battle of Evesham in 1265. Once again he escaped and opposed the King, seizing Fotheringhay Castle, Northants, and his name is mentioned among those who were with a force of armed men at Richmond. After suffering defeat in the company of the Earl of Derby at Chesterfield, May 1266, and having attacked the castle and sacked the city of Lincoln, he joined the rebels in the Isle of Axholme. He was granted protection, in summer 1266, to appear before the King, stood trial in the autumn and was pardoned, Nov following, if he accepted the Dictum of Kenilworth. In Jun 1267 he was granted exemption from assizes, juries and being made sheriff; and he obtained seisin of his mother's lands, 1 May 1276. He was present at the Council in Westminster which passed judgment on Llewelyn, Nov 1276, was summoned for service in Wales in 1277 and campaigned there in the household of the Earl of Gloucester.

Baldwin Wake married, 1^stly, Ela, sister and (eventually, in her issue) coheir of Simon de Beauchamp, daughter of William de Beauchamp, Baron of Bedford, by his 2^nd wife, Ida, daughter of William Longspee Earl of Salisbury She died before 10 Jan 1266/7. He married, 2^ndly, before 5 Feb 1267/8, Hawise (born circa 1250), younger daughter and coheir of Robert de Quency (youngest brother of Roger, 2nd Earl of Winchester), by Helen, daughter of Llewelyn Ap Iorwerth, Prince of North Wales. He died shortly before 10 Feb 1281/2. Hawise died before 27 Mar 1284/5.

~ Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. XIIB, pp. 300-301

Baldwin married Ela de Beauchamp, daughter of William de Beauchamp Baron of Bedford and Ida Longespée.¹⁴¹ (Ela de Beauchamp was born about 1238 in Bedford, Bedfordshire, England and died 10 Jan 1266(7) ¹⁴¹.)