Redvers

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Redvers (also Reviers or Revières ) was a family of the Norman nobility. It originally came from Reviers in the Calvados , but towards the end of the 11th century the focus of its possessions was in Normandy at Néhou and Vernon . They came to England during the Norman Conquest . A supporter of King Henry I , Richard de Redvers was rewarded with extensive holdings in Devon , Dorset , Hampshire , from which the later Honors of Plympton and Christchurch emerged. To this end, he appointed him Lord of the Isle of Wight . Richard's son and heir Baldwin de Redvers was one of the main supporters of Heinrich's daughter Matilda at the beginning of the English Civil War and was made Earl of Devon by her in June 1141 . His successors remained important nobles, but none of them achieved his importance. Due to early deaths and long underage administrations, the influence of the family declined, which also neglected the estates in south-west England in favor of the Isle of Wight . Baldwin de Redvers, 7th Earl of Devon died in 1262 without male heirs, so that his daughter Isabella inherited the estates. She outlived all of her children and died in 1293. Most of her possessions went to the Crown. In 1335, Hugh Courtenay , Lord of Okehampton, a descendant of her great-aunt Mary de Redvers, became the new Earl of Devon.

Tribe list

Origins in Normandy

  1. NN de Reviers
    1. Baudoin de Reviers, attested in 1060
      1. ? Richard de Reviers , see below
    2. Guillaume de Reviers, attested in 1060
    3. Richard de Reviers († 1060)

The Earls of Devon and Lords of the Isle of Wight

  1. Richard de Redvers († September 8, 1107) seigneur de Reviers , Vernon and Néhou , at Mosterton Manor in Dorset , founds Montebourg Abbey , also buried there; ⚭ Adeline († May 27 after 1156), daughter of William Peverel the Elder and Adeline
    1. Baldwin de Redvers († June 4, 1155), Earl of Devon, probably 1141, founded Quarr Abbey in 1132 , also buried there; ⚭ Adelise
      1. Richard de Redvers († April 21 or 27, 1162), Earl of Devon, Lord of the Isle of Wight , Sheriff of Devon, buried in Christchurch (formerly Twynham) ; ⚭ Denise († after 1162), daughter of Reginald de Dunstanville, 1st Earl of Cornwall , buried in Christchurch (Twynham)
        1. Baldwin de Redvers († May 10 or 28, 1188), 1162 underage, probably 1185/86 Earl of Devon, Lord of the Isle of Wight; ⚭ Denise (* probably 1173, † 1221), heir daughter of Raoul, Prince de Déols , seigneur de Châteauroux , and Agnes de Charenton, she married André de Chauvigny in 1189 , she was buried in Déols.
        2. Richard de Redvers († August 19 before 1193), Earl of Devon, Lord of the Isle of Wight; ⚭ Emma / Gieva, sister of Robert de Pont-de-l'Arche
      2. Henry de Redvers
      3. William de Redvers , called William de Vernon († September 8 or 10, 1217), Earl of Devon, Lord of the Isle of Wight, buried in Christchurch (Twynham); ⚭ Mabirie / Mabel († after 1204), daughter of Robert de Beaumont , Earl of Meulan ( House of Beaumont ), and Maud of Cornwall.
        1. Baldwin de Redvers (* after April 28, 1200, † September 1, 1216); ⚭ Margaret († shortly before September 29, 1252), daughter of Warin FitzGerold, and Alice, she married Falkes de Bréauté , she was buried in the Franciscan Church (Gray Friars), London
          1. Baldwin de Redvers († February 15, 1244/45), 1239 Earl of Devon, Lord of the Isle of Wight, buried in Breamore Priory , Hampshire; ⚭ 1226 Amicia (* May 27, 1220, † shortly before January 21, 1284), daughter of Gilbert de Clare , Earl of Gloucester and Earl of Hertford , and Isabel Marshal , founded Buckland Abbey , Devon, she was married to Robert de Gynes
            1. Baldwin de Redvers (born January 1, 1235/36, † 1262, before September 13 in France), Earl of Devon, Lord of the Isle of Wight, buried in Breamore Priory; ⚭ 1257 Margaret († shortly before May 14, 1292), daughter of Thomas I , Count of Savoy , she married Sir Robert Aguillon of Watton , Hertfordshire († February 15, 1285/86) in 1269.
              1. John de Redvers, † as a child
            2. Isabel de Redvers (July 1237, † November 10, 1293 Stockwell, Surrey ), Countess of Devon, Lady of the Isle of Wight, buried in Breamore Priory; ⚭ William de Forz († May 23, 1260)
              1. John († before August 11, 1260)
              2. Thomas (born September 9, 1253, † before April 6, 1269), buried in the Franciscan Church (Black Friars) in Stamford
              3. William († Oxford), buried in the Franciscan Church (Black Friars) in Oxford
              4. Amice / Anice, buried in Meaux Abbey
              5. Aveline (born January 20, 1259, † November 10, 1274), buried in Westminster Abbey ; ⚭ April 8 or 9, 1269 Westminster Abbey Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster ( House Plantagenet )
        2. Mary de Redvers; ⚭ I. Pierre de Préaux ( House Préaux ); ⚭ II Robert de Courtenay of Okehampton ( House of Courtenay )
        3. Joan de Redvers, ⚭ William Brewer ; previously she was engaged to Hubert de Burgh , who later became the Earl of Kent , but the marriage did not materialize.
      4. Matilda de Redvers; ⚭ Anshetil de Gray
      5. Maud de Redvers, ⚭ Ralph de Avenel
      6. Alice de Redvers, ⚭ Roger II. De Nonant
      7. Hawise de Redvers, ⚭ Robert Castellan.
      8. Eva de Redvers, ⚭ Robert d'Oyly.
    2. Guillaume de Vernon, heir to the property in Normandy; ⚭ Lucy de Tancarville, daughter of Guillaume I. de Tancarville and Matilda d'Arques ( house Tancarville )
    3. Robert de Sainte-Mère-Église
    4. Hubert de Vernon
    5. Hadewise de Redvers, ⚭ William de Roumare, Earl of Lincoln († before 1161)
  2. ? Hugh, mentioned posthumously as the uncle of the Earl of Devon in 1130
  3. Adelisa, attested in 1107

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wace mentions a Sire de Reviers who fought in the Battle of Hastings
  2. ^ Robert Bearman: Revières, Baldwin de, earl of Devon (c.1095-1155). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004

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