Baldwin Wake

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Baldwin Wake, Lord of Bourne (* around 1238, † around February 10, 1282 ) was an English nobleman and rebel.

Life

Baldwin Wake was a son of Hugh Wake and his wife Joan de Stuteville . He inherited estates in Buttercrambe , Cottingham and Kirkby Moorside in Yorkshire from his father . Through his mother he inherited estates in Market Deeping and Skellingthorp in Lincolnshire . During the conflict of King Henry III. with an opposition to the nobility, he sided with the barons. When this conflict led to the Second War of the Barons against the King, Wake was captured by royal troops during the conquest of Northampton in April 1264 . After the victory of the rebels led by Simon de Montfort in the Battle of Lewes in May 1264, he was released again. Immediately before the decisive victory of the king's party in the Battle of Evesham , he was captured again when the heir to the throne Edward surprised the troops of Simon de Montfort the Younger at Kenilworth Castle on July 31, 1265 . After he was released again, Wake joined the remaining rebels, the so-called disinherited, who had retired to the Isle of Axholme under the leadership of Simon de Montfort the Younger . The heir to the throne, Lord Eduard , moved against the disinherited in autumn 1265 and was able to conquer the wetland of the Isle of Axholm with the help of wooden footbridges. The disinherited, including Wake, had to submit to Christmas 1265. Wake was released on condition that he was answerable to parliament , but he delayed doing so and eventually continued the fight. On May 15, 1266 he took part in the Battle of Chesterfield . After this defeat, he initially joined the remaining disinherited on the Isle of Ely , but eventually submitted to the king. Finally, in November 1266, he was pardoned. In 1277 he took part in King Edward I's campaign against Wales .

Marriage and offspring

In his first marriage he married Ela de Beauchamp , a daughter of William de Beauchamp, Lord of Bedford , and his wife Ida Longespée . He had at least three daughters with her:

  • Joan Wake
  • Ida Wake
  • Elizabeth Wake

These three daughters inherited a third of the estates of the Beauchamp family in Bedfordshire through their mother after 1265 .

In his second marriage, Wake married on February 5, 1267 Hawise de Quincy, a daughter of Robert de Quincy , Lord of Ware and of Helen ferch Llywelyn , a daughter of Prince Llywelyn from Iorwerth of Gwynedd. He had at least three children with her, including:

Since his sons were minors when he died, Edmund, 2nd Earl of Cornwall, became their guardian. Edmund paid the king the high sum of 7,000 marks for the administration of Wake's property until she came of age .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Michael Prestwich: Edward I. University of California, Berkeley 1988, ISBN 0-520-06266-3 , p. 55
  2. ^ The Star: Date set for the Battle of Chesterfield celebration. Retrieved June 30, 2015 .
  3. ↑ C. Gore Chambers, GH Fowler: The Beauchamps, barons of Bedford . In: The Publications of the Bedfordshire Historical Record Society , 1 (1913), p. 20
  4. ^ Michael Prestwich: Edward I. University of California, Berkeley 1988, ISBN 0-520-06266-3 , p. 239
personal data
SURNAME Baldwin Wake
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baldwin Wake, Lord of Bourne (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English nobleman and military
DATE OF BIRTH around 1238
DATE OF DEATH on February 10, 1282