Geoffrey Wake

• Preferred Name: Geoffrey Wake
  
• Gender: M
  
• Christening: in Channel Islands at LATI: N9.3259 LONG: E2.365 with note: Guernsey, Channel Islands
  
• Death: 1142 in Guernsey, Channel Islands at LATI: N9.45 LONG: E2.58
  
• FSID: 9CSK-446
  
• Birth: 1065 in Normandy, Bedford, France at LATI: N9.06 LONG: E0.11
  
• Notes:

  === Also known as Wac ===
  Also known as Wac
  
  === Sources: Northamptonshire Past and Prese ===
  Sources: Northamptonshire Past and Present, v5, p169, "Origins of theWake Family;" A. Roots 184A-5: Kraentzler 1396. K: Geoffrey Wac, held lands in Guernsey. Roots: Geoffrey Wac. NPP: Geoffrey, held land in Guernsey and built a windmill, siteunspecified.
  
  === BIRT PLAC Of Bessin In Normandy & Island ===
  BIRT PLAC Of Bessin In Normandy & Island Of Guernsex
  
  === Geoffrey Wac/Wake; allegedly of Flemish ===
  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 (b), who was born almost certainly before 1100, held land in Guernsey, as well as land, probably in the Cotentin, where he built a mill. It is probable that he married twice, but nothing is known
  of his wives or wife. He was dead in 1168, probably in 1142. [Complete Peerage XII/2:295, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
  
  (b) The name Wac is clearly a nickname, but the meaning is uncertain. The caput baroniae in Normandy was at Negreville, Manche, arr. Valognes.

• m. BEF 1101 in Europe

1. Hugh Wake, b. 1101 in Liddel, Cumberland, England     d. 1172 in Deeping, Lincolnshire, England