diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c07bf665c..65cc40e61 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,14 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](http://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/).
 This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html),
 with the exception that 0.x versions can break between minor versions.
 
+## Unreleased
+### Changed
+- Pass original instead of normalized label to `InlineParserContext` for lookup (#204).
+  This allows custom contexts to change the lookup logic and have access to the original
+  label content.
+  In case you have a custom implementation of `InlineParserContext`, you might need to adjust
+  it to do normalization.
+
 ## [0.17.1] - 2021-02-03
 ### Fixed
 - Fix emphasis surrounded by non-BMP punctuation/whitespace characters
diff --git a/commonmark/src/main/java/org/commonmark/internal/DocumentParser.java b/commonmark/src/main/java/org/commonmark/internal/DocumentParser.java
index 179ad1140..ed8ae7412 100644
--- a/commonmark/src/main/java/org/commonmark/internal/DocumentParser.java
+++ b/commonmark/src/main/java/org/commonmark/internal/DocumentParser.java
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ public class DocumentParser implements ParserState {
     private final List<DelimiterProcessor> delimiterProcessors;
     private final IncludeSourceSpans includeSourceSpans;
     private final DocumentBlockParser documentBlockParser;
-    private final Map<String, LinkReferenceDefinition> definitions = new LinkedHashMap<>();
+    private final LinkReferenceDefinitions definitions = new LinkReferenceDefinitions();
 
     private final List<OpenBlockParser> openBlockParsers = new ArrayList<>();
     private final List<BlockParser> allBlockParsers = new ArrayList<>();
@@ -460,11 +460,7 @@ private void addDefinitionsFrom(ParagraphParser paragraphParser) {
             // Add nodes into document before paragraph.
             paragraphParser.getBlock().insertBefore(definition);
 
-            String label = definition.getLabel();
-            // spec: When there are multiple matching link reference definitions, the first is used
-            if (!definitions.containsKey(label)) {
-                definitions.put(label, definition);
-            }
+            definitions.add(definition);
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/commonmark/src/main/java/org/commonmark/internal/InlineParserContextImpl.java b/commonmark/src/main/java/org/commonmark/internal/InlineParserContextImpl.java
index bff085ad8..f485614d5 100644
--- a/commonmark/src/main/java/org/commonmark/internal/InlineParserContextImpl.java
+++ b/commonmark/src/main/java/org/commonmark/internal/InlineParserContextImpl.java
@@ -10,10 +10,10 @@
 public class InlineParserContextImpl implements InlineParserContext {
 
     private final List<DelimiterProcessor> delimiterProcessors;
-    private final Map<String, LinkReferenceDefinition> linkReferenceDefinitions;
+    private final LinkReferenceDefinitions linkReferenceDefinitions;
 
     public InlineParserContextImpl(List<DelimiterProcessor> delimiterProcessors,
-                                   Map<String, LinkReferenceDefinition> linkReferenceDefinitions) {
+                                   LinkReferenceDefinitions linkReferenceDefinitions) {
         this.delimiterProcessors = delimiterProcessors;
         this.linkReferenceDefinitions = linkReferenceDefinitions;
     }
diff --git a/commonmark/src/main/java/org/commonmark/internal/InlineParserImpl.java b/commonmark/src/main/java/org/commonmark/internal/InlineParserImpl.java
index c90e61fb2..c14b9e885 100644
--- a/commonmark/src/main/java/org/commonmark/internal/InlineParserImpl.java
+++ b/commonmark/src/main/java/org/commonmark/internal/InlineParserImpl.java
@@ -323,8 +323,7 @@ private Node parseCloseBracket() {
             }
 
             if (ref != null) {
-                String label = Escaping.normalizeLabelContent(ref);
-                LinkReferenceDefinition definition = context.getLinkReferenceDefinition(label);
+                LinkReferenceDefinition definition = context.getLinkReferenceDefinition(ref);
                 if (definition != null) {
                     dest = definition.getDestination();
                     title = definition.getTitle();
diff --git a/commonmark/src/main/java/org/commonmark/internal/LinkReferenceDefinitions.java b/commonmark/src/main/java/org/commonmark/internal/LinkReferenceDefinitions.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8fbdb982a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/commonmark/src/main/java/org/commonmark/internal/LinkReferenceDefinitions.java
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+package org.commonmark.internal;
+
+import org.commonmark.internal.util.Escaping;
+import org.commonmark.node.LinkReferenceDefinition;
+
+import java.util.LinkedHashMap;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+public class LinkReferenceDefinitions {
+
+    // LinkedHashMap for determinism and to preserve document order
+    private final Map<String, LinkReferenceDefinition> definitions = new LinkedHashMap<>();
+
+    public void add(LinkReferenceDefinition definition) {
+        String normalizedLabel = Escaping.normalizeLabelContent(definition.getLabel());
+
+        // spec: When there are multiple matching link reference definitions, the first is used
+        if (!definitions.containsKey(normalizedLabel)) {
+            definitions.put(normalizedLabel, definition);
+        }
+    }
+
+    public LinkReferenceDefinition get(String label) {
+        String normalizedLabel = Escaping.normalizeLabelContent(label);
+        return definitions.get(normalizedLabel);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/commonmark/src/main/java/org/commonmark/parser/InlineParserContext.java b/commonmark/src/main/java/org/commonmark/parser/InlineParserContext.java
index 467742e2c..dae96e2c8 100644
--- a/commonmark/src/main/java/org/commonmark/parser/InlineParserContext.java
+++ b/commonmark/src/main/java/org/commonmark/parser/InlineParserContext.java
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ public interface InlineParserContext {
 
     /**
      * Look up a {@link LinkReferenceDefinition} for a given label.
+     * <p>
+     * Note that the label is not normalized yet; implementations are responsible for normalizing before lookup.
      *
      * @param label the link label to look up
      * @return the definition if one exists, {@code null} otherwise
diff --git a/commonmark/src/main/java/org/commonmark/parser/Parser.java b/commonmark/src/main/java/org/commonmark/parser/Parser.java
index ae1f700b8..63cebb2eb 100644
--- a/commonmark/src/main/java/org/commonmark/parser/Parser.java
+++ b/commonmark/src/main/java/org/commonmark/parser/Parser.java
@@ -4,23 +4,14 @@
 import org.commonmark.internal.DocumentParser;
 import org.commonmark.internal.InlineParserContextImpl;
 import org.commonmark.internal.InlineParserImpl;
-import org.commonmark.node.Block;
-import org.commonmark.node.BlockQuote;
-import org.commonmark.node.FencedCodeBlock;
-import org.commonmark.node.Heading;
-import org.commonmark.node.HtmlBlock;
-import org.commonmark.node.IndentedCodeBlock;
-import org.commonmark.node.LinkReferenceDefinition;
-import org.commonmark.node.ListBlock;
-import org.commonmark.node.Node;
-import org.commonmark.node.ThematicBreak;
+import org.commonmark.internal.LinkReferenceDefinitions;
+import org.commonmark.node.*;
 import org.commonmark.parser.block.BlockParserFactory;
 import org.commonmark.parser.delimiter.DelimiterProcessor;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.Reader;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
-import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Set;
 
@@ -51,8 +42,7 @@ private Parser(Builder builder) {
 
         // Try to construct an inline parser. Invalid configuration might result in an exception, which we want to
         // detect as soon as possible.
-        this.inlineParserFactory.create(new InlineParserContextImpl(delimiterProcessors,
-                Collections.<String, LinkReferenceDefinition>emptyMap()));
+        this.inlineParserFactory.create(new InlineParserContextImpl(delimiterProcessors, new LinkReferenceDefinitions()));
     }
 
     /**
@@ -179,7 +169,7 @@ public Builder extensions(Iterable<? extends Extension> extensions) {
          * </pre>
          *
          * @param enabledBlockTypes A list of block nodes the parser will parse.
-         *                          If this list is empty, the parser will not recognize any CommonMark core features.
+         * If this list is empty, the parser will not recognize any CommonMark core features.
          * @return {@code this}
          */
         public Builder enabledBlockTypes(Set<Class<? extends Block>> enabledBlockTypes) {
diff --git a/commonmark/src/test/java/org/commonmark/test/InlineParserContextTest.java b/commonmark/src/test/java/org/commonmark/test/InlineParserContextTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b7d083df3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/commonmark/src/test/java/org/commonmark/test/InlineParserContextTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+package org.commonmark.test;
+
+import org.commonmark.internal.InlineParserImpl;
+import org.commonmark.node.LinkReferenceDefinition;
+import org.commonmark.parser.InlineParser;
+import org.commonmark.parser.InlineParserContext;
+import org.commonmark.parser.InlineParserFactory;
+import org.commonmark.parser.Parser;
+import org.commonmark.parser.delimiter.DelimiterProcessor;
+import org.commonmark.renderer.html.HtmlRenderer;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.List;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
+
+public class InlineParserContextTest {
+
+    @Test
+    public void labelShouldBeOriginalNotNormalized() {
+        CapturingInlineParserFactory inlineParserFactory = new CapturingInlineParserFactory();
+
+        Parser parser = Parser.builder().inlineParserFactory(inlineParserFactory).build();
+        String input = "[link with special label][FooBarBaz]\n\n[foobarbaz]: /url";
+
+        String rendered = HtmlRenderer.builder().build().render(parser.parse(input));
+
+        // Lookup should pass original label to context
+        assertEquals(Collections.singletonList("FooBarBaz"), inlineParserFactory.lookups);
+
+        // Context should normalize label for finding reference
+        assertEquals("<p><a href=\"/url\">link with special label</a></p>\n", rendered);
+    }
+
+    static class CapturingInlineParserFactory implements InlineParserFactory {
+
+        private List<String> lookups = new ArrayList<>();
+
+        @Override
+        public InlineParser create(final InlineParserContext inlineParserContext) {
+            InlineParserContext wrappedContext = new InlineParserContext() {
+                @Override
+                public List<DelimiterProcessor> getCustomDelimiterProcessors() {
+                    return inlineParserContext.getCustomDelimiterProcessors();
+                }
+
+                @Override
+                public LinkReferenceDefinition getLinkReferenceDefinition(String label) {
+                    lookups.add(label);
+                    return inlineParserContext.getLinkReferenceDefinition(label);
+                }
+            };
+
+            return new InlineParserImpl(wrappedContext);
+        }
+    }
+}