Paternal Family Tree: Redvers
Baldwin de Redvers 1st Earl Devon was born to Richard Redvers and Adeliza Peverell.
On 8th September 1107 [his father] Richard Redvers [aged 41] died.
Before 1138 Baldwin de Redvers 1st Earl Devon and Adelisa Baluun Countess Devon were married. She by marriage Baroness Strange Knockin, Countess Devon.
In 1141 Baldwin de Redvers 1st Earl Devon was created 1st Earl Devon.
Around 1146 [his wife] Adelisa Baluun Countess Devon died.
In 1147 [his son-in-law] Robert Fitzrobert and Hawise Redvers were married. She the daughter of Baldwin de Redvers 1st Earl Devon and Adelisa Baluun Countess Devon. He the illegitmate son of Robert Normandy 1st Earl Gloucester [aged 48].
On 4th June 1155 Baldwin de Redvers 1st Earl Devon died. His grandson Richard succeeded 2nd Earl Devon.
[his son] William Redvers 5th Earl Devon was born to Baldwin de Redvers 1st Earl Devon. He married before 10th September 1217 Mable de Beaumont, daughter of Robert Beaumont Count Meulan and Maud FitzRoy de Dunstanville of Cornwall, and had issue.
[his son] Richard Redvers was born to Baldwin de Redvers 1st Earl Devon.
Annals of Six Kings of England by Nicholas Trivet. Stephen at first seemed to have a favourable beginning, when he drove back with great force beyond the River Tyne David, king of the Scots, the uncle of the empress and a supporter of her cause, who had invaded the land of Northumbria, and crushed his army with a strong hand. He also subdued Baldwin de Redvers1, who had rebelled, and sent him into exile. After occupying Normandy, he arranged everything there with favourable fortune. The English sea, having gone beyond its bounds, submerged a great part of Flanders together with its inhabitants.
STEPHANUS initia visus est habere fausta, dum David Scotorum regem imperatricis avunculum, et pro vita ejus zelantem, terramque Northumbriam invadentem, trans fluvium Tynam magnis repulit viribus, et ejus exercitum in manu potenti contrivit. Baldewynum etiam de Riveriis rebellantem expugnavit, et in exilium relegavit, Normanniamque occupans, omnia in ea gerenda felici fortuna disposuit. Mare Anglicanum, terminos suos egressum, partem magnam Flandriæ cum habitatoribus ejusdem submersit. Scotland.
Note 1. Baldwin de Rivers aka Redvers, died 1155, Created Earl of Devon by Empress Matilda.
This is a translation of the 'Memoires of Jacques du Clercq', published in 1823 in two volumes, edited by Frederic, Baron de Reissenberg. In his introduction Reissenberg writes: 'Jacques du Clercq tells us that he was born in 1424, and that he was a licentiate in law and a counsellor to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, in the castellany of Douai, Lille, and Orchies. It appears that he established his residence at Arras. In 1446, he married the daughter of Baldwin de la Lacherie, a gentleman who lived in Lille. We read in the fifth book of his Memoirs that his father, also named Jacques du Clercq, had married a lady of the Le Camelin family, from Compiègne. His ancestors, always attached to the counts of Flanders, had constantly served them, whether in their councils or in their armies.' The Memoires cover a period of nineteen years beginning in in 1448, ending in in 1467. It appears that the author had intended to extend the Memoirs beyond that date; no doubt illness or death prevented him from carrying out this plan. As Reissenberg writes the 'merit of this work lies in the simplicity of its narrative, in its tone of good faith, and in a certain air of frankness which naturally wins the reader’s confidence.' Du Clercq ranges from events of national and international importance, including events of the Wars of the Roses in England, to simple, everyday local events such as marriages, robberies, murders, trials and deaths, including that of his own father in Book 5; one of his last entries.
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Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. In this king's time was all dissention, and evil, and rapine; for against him rose soon the rich men who were traitors; and first of all Baldwin de Redvers, who held Exeter, Devon [Map] against him. But the king beset it; and afterwards Baldwin accorded. Then took the others, and held their castles against him; and David, King of Scotland, took to Wessington against him. Nevertheless their messengers passed between them; and they came together, and were settled, but it availed little.
[his daughter] Hawise Redvers was born to Baldwin de Redvers 1st Earl Devon and Adelisa Baluun Countess Devon. She married 1147 Robert Fitzrobert, son of Robert Normandy 1st Earl Gloucester.
father: Richard Redvers 