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of

Redvers Family

Devon & Cornwall Notes and Queries vol. VI, (January 1910 to October 1911), p.96.

by

Oswald J. Reichel

Prepared by Michael Steer

Baldwin de Reviers (Revere) was recorded in the Domesday census of 1086. Soon after the conquest Baldwin and William (Quillaume) de Reviers, sons of Richard of Montebourg in Calvados received Plympton and Tiverton, the Isle of Wight, and became Earl of Devon to which Baldwin succeeded in 1107. Baldwin de Redvers, the 1st Earl of Devon (died 1155), was Baron of Plympton. His father, Richard de Redvers (or Reviers, Rivers, or Latinised to de Ripariis) (1066-7) was a Norman from Reviers. He rose to become the 1st baron of Plympton. Descending from this great Norman family were the Redvers, the Reivers, the Courtneys, the Prouz, the Chudleighs, the Fortibus, and the Vernon families. The article, from a copy of a rare and much sought-after journal can be downloaded from the Internet Archive. Google has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. These books, on which copyright has expired, are available for free educational and research use, both as individual books and as full collections to aid researchers.

Note 89. REDVERS FAMILY. - In the After-Death Inquest of Maud de Lucy, 27 Hen. Ill (Inquisitions of Hen. III., No. 18), I find the following: - "Whether her heir is Sir B. de Ripariis, her younger son or the son of Sir Richard de Ripariis, who was the son of her elder son and died before her decease, is unknown to the jury; but the son of the said Sir Richard was four years old on the morrow of the nativity of the Blessed Mary, 27 Hen. III."

I have before me the pedigree of the Redvers family, compiled by the late Mr. Brooking Rowe in Trans. Devon Assoc., VII., 363, but do not find anywhere a marriage with a de Lucy. Can anyone explain the difficulty. Mr. Brooking Rowe has made one error in calling Richard de Redvers first Earl of Devon. Dr. Round has conclusively shown that not Richard, but his son Baldwin, was the first earl and that he was so created in 1141. The numbering therefore of all the earls in this pedigree require to be corrected.

In the After-Death inquest of Baldwin the 7th (not the 8th) earl in 1263, 47 Hen. III. (Inquisitions of Hen. III., No. 564, p. 173), two fees in Devon and Dorset are stated to be held of the earl by Hawise de Ripariis (p. 176). This can hardly have been the daughter of the first earl who gave land at Cooksworthy in Beaford for the endowment of a chantry there about 1 155. Who was the Hadwise of 1263?

                                                             Oswald J. Reichel.