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 Devon Notes and Queries. 217 succeeded his father in the barony of Okehamton in 1090 (Planch6, I.e. II., 43), but died without issue in 1137 {Oliver Mon.y p. 338), and was succeeded by his elder sister Adela, who was married to a Kentish knight, and also died without issue {Risdon*s Note Book). Her younger sister then succeeded. She was also twice married : (i) to William Avenel, by whom she had a ^on Ralph Avenel, and (2) to William de Abrincis or Avranches, by whom she had a son, Robert de Abrincis. William Avenel held the barony in right of his wife (Oliver Mon.y p. 136), and then his son Ralph ; but Ralph Avenel was dispossessed in favour of Matilda, the only daughter of Robert de Abrincis, who was also twice married, viz. : (i) to Robert de Aincoort, by whom she had a daughter Hawisia, afterwards the wife of the younger Reginald de Courtenay, and (2) to Robert, a natural son of Henry I, by whom she had a daughter Matilda, afterwards the wife of the elder Reginald de Courtenay. In right of his wife Matilda, this Robert filius regis enjoyed the barony of Okehamton for life {Liber Niger, p. 119). It then went to Matilda's half-sister Hawisia, through whom it came to the Courtenays. On the other hand, Baldwin de Redvers was the son of Richard de Redvers and belonged to a later generation. His father, Richard de Redvers, was not Earl of Devon as Mr. Round {Feudal England, p. 486) has shewn ; for his son Baldwin signed the charter of Henry I in 11 23 simply as Baldwin de Redvers. Baldwin, however, was the great champion of Maud, and in her interest seized and defended the Castle of Exeter in 1135. During Stephen's reign he was consequently in disgrace. It is probable that Henry II, when he came to the throne in 1 154, first gave him the earldom as a reward for his services to his mother. He died in 1155. The fact of his defence of the Castle of Exeter has probably led many to connect him •with the family of Baldwin the Sheriff, in which the Castle is said to have been hereditary until 1230. On p. 62 a list is given of the nineteen parish churches of Exeter settled by the ordinance of 1222. That list contains three mistakes, as a reference to the taxation of Pope Nicolas in 1288 (Hingeston-Randolph's Bronescomhe, p. 451) will shew. First, St. Edward's, which was never more than a chapel, is inserted, instead of St. Edmund's Above Bridge, the parish church of Exe Island ; and St. Sidwell's and St. David's