Baldwin de Redvers, 1st Earl of Devon (died 4 June 1155), feudal baron of Plympton in

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, was the son of

Richard de Redvers Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'stron ...

and his wife Adeline Peverel. He was one of the first to rebel against King Stephen, and was the only first rank magnate never to accept the new king. He seized Exeter, and was a pirate out of

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, but he was driven out of England to Anjou, where he joined the Empress Matilda. She made him Earl of Devon after she established herself in England, probably in early 1141. He founded several monasteries, notably those of Quarr Abbey (1131), in the

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, a priory at Breamore,

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, and the Priory of St James, at Exeter. Some monastic chronicles call his father also Earl of Devon, but no contemporary record uses the title, including the monastic charters.

Family and children

He married Adelize De Baalun (d. circa 1146).Bearman, R. (1994).''Charters of The Redvers Family and the Earldom of Devon 1090–1217''. p. 9. They had children: #

Richard de Redvers, 2nd Earl of Devon Richard de Redvers, 2nd Earl of Devon (died 1162) was Earl of Devon from 1155 until his death and was feudal baron of Plympton in Devon.Sanders, I.J. English Baronies: A Study of their Origin and Descent 1086-1327, Oxford, 1960, pp.137-8, Barony o ...

. Married Denise de Dunstanville, the daughter of Reginald the first Earl of Cornwall. # Henry de Redvers #

William de Redvers, 5th Earl of Devon William de Redvers, 5th Earl of Devon (died 10 September 1217) (or de Reviers), of Tiverton Castle and Plympton Castle, both in Devon, was feudal baron of Plympton in Devon. Origins He was the son of Baldwin de Redvers, 1st Earl of Devon by h ...

. Married Mabel de Beaumont. # Matilda de Redvers, married to Anschetil de Greye. # Maud de Redvers, married Ralph de Avenel. # Alice de Redvers, married Roger II de Nonant. # Hawise de Redvers, by 1147 married Robert FitzRobert, Castellan of Gloucester. Robert was an illegitimate son of

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. # Eva de Redvers, married Robert d' Oyly. Between 1151 and his death in 1155, Baldwin married Lucy de Clare. Lucy was assumed to have been the widow of

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and a daughter of Ranulf earl of Chester. However, Gilbert de Clare died unmarried and without issue in 1152. One source states that Lucy was the daughter of Richard Fitz Gilbert de Clare and Adelisa of Chester. They were the parents of Gilbert de Clare, who died in 1152. Therefore, Lucy was a sister of Gilbert de Clare. A charter mentioning her late brother Gilbert de Clare, and her late husband Baldwin was given shortly after Baldwin's death.Keats-Rohan,K.S.B. (2002).''Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1066–1166 : II Pipe Rolls to Cartae Baronum''.p. 658 and 245. The name ''de Redvers'' can also be found as ''de Reviers'' or ''Revières''.

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References

*Frederick Lewis Weis ''Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700''; Line 50-27 * *Charles Mosley, editor-in-chief ''Burke's Peerage and Baronetage'', 106th edition, 1999, Page: 832 *Robert Bearman, 'Revières, Baldwin de, earl of Devon (c.1095–1155)’, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 200

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