[2] 'Baldwino patri meo Molas et Sapum reddidit [Rex W. et filiam amitæ suæ uxorem dedit' (Ord. Vit.)
[3], [3a] 'Eodem anno obierunt plures ex principibus Angliæ.... Ricardus filius Gisleberti Robertus filius Ricardi, patruus ejus, Ricardus filius Baldwini, consobrinus ejus' (Robert of Torigni).
[4] 'Mortuis autem absque liberis Rogero et Waltero.'
[5], [5a] 'Oportet me habere in custodia et defensione mea omnes res Becci sicut ecclesie que fundata est ab antecessoribus meis' (Cartulary of St Neot's, fo. 73).
[6] Ancestor of the fitzWalters of Dunmow and of Baynard's Castle, who are accordingly spoken of by Fantôme as 'Clarreaus'—a word which has puzzled his editor, Mr Howlett.
[7] Mon. Ang. iv. 597. Formul Ang. p. 40.
[8] Mon. Ang., iv. 597.
We have yet to deal with one more member of this historic house, Baldwin fitz Gilbert, or Baldwin de Clare, ancestor, through his daughter and heir, of the family of Wake. I had always suspected that Baldwin fitz Gilbert, the recognized grandfather of Baldwin Wac (1166), could be no other than Baldwin, son of Gilbert de Clare, a well-known man. But Dugdale, under 'Wake' (i. 539) positively asserts that the former was 'brother to Walter de Gant, father of Gilbert de Gant, the first Earl of Lincoln of that family'. This proves, however, on inquiry, to be based on an almost incredible blunder. Dugdale actually relied on a charter,[5] which includes Baldwin among the Clares, and which he himself under 'Clare' rightly so interprets (Baronage, i. 207b). There is, therefore, no ground for deriving Baldwin from De Gant, or for rejecting his identity with that Baldwin de Clare, who addressed the troops on behalf of Stephen at the battle of Lincoln.[6]