Baldwin de Redvers, 1st Earl of Devon

Baldwin de Redvers, 1st Earl of Devon (died 4 June 1155), feudal baron of Plympton in Devon, was the son of Richard de Redvers 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 Carisbrooke, 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 Isle of Wight, a priory at Breamore, Hampshire, 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. ). They had children:

Richard de Redvers, 2nd Earl of Devon. Married Denise de Dunstanville, the daughter of Reginald the first Earl of Cornwall. Henry de Redvers William de Redvers, 5th Earl of Devon. 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

The name de Redvers can also be found as de Reviers or Revières.

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