Baldwin de Redvers, 6th Earl of Devon

Matthew Paris noted the death of Baldwin de Redvers, 6th Earl of Devon, in his Historia Anglorum with a depiction of his upside down coat of arms, 13th century.

Baldwin de Redvers, 6th Earl of Devon (* 1216/1217 - † February 15, 1245 ) was an English nobleman in the 13th century. He was a son of Baldwin de Redvers and Margaret FitzGerold.

Redvers father died during the period of his birth and shortly afterwards his grandfather William de Redvers, 5th Earl of Devon , who he succeeded as Earl of Devon and Lord of the Isle of Wight as a small child . His mother then married the mercenary leader Falkes de Bréauté . On December 25, 1239, he was officially invested in Winchester as Earl of Devon .

From 1239 to 1240 Redvers participated on the side of Richard of Cornwall in the barons' crusade to the holy land. After his death he was buried in the Breamore Priory in Hampshire .

Baldwin de Redvers was married since 1226 to Amicia de Clare († 1284), a daughter of Gilbert de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford and 1st Earl of Gloucester . The marriage had two children:

• Baldwin de Redvers (born January 1, 1236, † 1262 in Paris), 7th Earl of Devon and Lord of the Isle of Wight
• Isabel de Redvers (* 1237; † November 10, 1293), 8th Countess of Devon and Lady of the Isle of Wight ⚭ 1248 with William de Forz († 1260)

See also: House Redvers

literature

• Malcolm Barber, Keith Bate: Letters from the East: Crusaders, Pilgrims and Settlers in the 12th-13th Centuries , in: Crusade Texts in Translation (2010), pp. 136-137

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Matthäus Paris, Chronica Majora , ed. by Henry Richards Luard in: Rolls Series (RS) 57.4 (1877), pp. 138-144; see Barber and Bate

Web link

• Earls of Devon (Redvers) at Foundation for Medieval Genealogy.ac (English)

predecessor	Office	successor
William de Redvers	Earl of Devon 1217-1245	Baldwin de Redvers
William de Redvers	Lord of the Isle of Wight 1217-1245	Baldwin de Redvers