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 100 DEVON. under "Clare," Vol. II, p. 267.) His wife is said to liavo been n near relative of William the Conqueror, who rewarded him with 164 mauora (159 being in Devon), the 'Lordship of Okehampton, and the Shrievalty of Devon, whence ho is called Vicecome* [Sheriff, not Viscount] Devonicc. Hod. 1090, and was sue. by hiss, and h. KirH.utD Fitz-Baldwin, feudal Lord of Okehampton and Sheriff ( Vicccomcs) of Devon, who J. s.p. 113" nad was bur. at Brightley Abbey, but was removed to Ford Abbey, Devon(»).] Earldom. 1, Richard de Redvers(i>|, whose parentage is obscure(i), I 1100? was mentioned in a Charter of 10S0 ; was holder of Mostcrton, co. Dorset, in the Domesday Survey ; one of the five Barons who adhered to Henry I in his contest against his br. Hubert, and was shortly after that King's accession to the Throne (say 1100) a: EARL OF DEVON (styled also EARL OF EXETER'' 1 ), or EAKL DE REDVERS), receiving the third penny of tin: pleas of the County of Devon(°) and a grant of the Lordships of Tiverton and Plyrnptou therein. He was also granted the Lmxltkip of the Isle of Wiglitif) about the same time. He m. Adeliza, da. of William Pkverei., of Nottingham, by Adeliza de Lancaster his wife. He d. 1107 and was bur. at the Abbey of Mouteburgh in Normandy. His widow was living 1155, at a very great age, but d. before 1165. II. 1107, 2. Baldwin (de Redvers), Earl of Devon' (e) or of Exeter, or Earl Redvers, Lord of the Isle of Wight, s. and h. Taking the part of the Empress Maud, he gallantly defended the Castle of Kx.-b-r, and subsequently that of Carisbrooke against King Stephen, by whom he was dis ( a ) See Planche s "The Conqueror and his Companions," sub " Baldwin de Monies " and •' Richard de Redvers." ( b ) " The first of the family called He Redvers, Rivers, or Ripariis, from Reviers, near Creuilli and afterwards [called] de Vernon, from the Castle of that name in the Coteutin." See Planche's " Lords of the Isle of Wight," in the " Brit. Arch. Ass. " (1885), vol. xi, pp. 213-227. ( c ) Not improbably s. of William de Redvers, who held lands at Mouteburgh in Normaudy, where he himself was buried. It is conjectured that this William in. a da. of William (Fitz-Osborne), Earl of Hereford and Lord of the Isle of Wight, which would account for the Lordship of that island being granted to Richard, their son. ( d ) Exeter, the capital of the count}', being his chief residence. As in other earlier Earldoms, the designation of the title was varying, the fact that the person indicated was an Earl ( viz., " Earl Richard) being the only one of importance. ( u ) " In Comilem Devonicc, tertium denarium aunui exitns ejusdem comitatns illi concedeudo, eum consequenter creavit." See statement made (on the authority of Camden, for the original is now lost) in the book of the Abbey of Ford, a work of which Mr. Planche speaks somewhat slightingly. O The Lordship of the Isle of Wight war; granted by the Conqueror to his kinsman William FitzOsborne, Earl of Hereford, whose s. and h. Roger, the 2d Earl, forfeited it. It was then granted to the Redvers family, who held it till 1293, as in the text. Since that date it was granted only for life (or a less term), viz. (1), in 1307 (grant resumed in 1308) to Piers (Gaveston), Earl of Cornwall, beheaded 1312 ; (2) to Edward Earl of Chester, afterwards Edward HI ; (3) in 1385, to William (de Montacute) Earl of Salisbury, who d, 1397 ; (4) in 1397, to Edward, Earl of Rutland, afterwards Duke of York, Blain 1415, whose widow, Philippa (5) obtained it for her life and d. 1 130 ; (6) in 1415 (in reversion !), to Humphrey, " the good " Duke of Gloucester, who d. 1446, during whose Lordship took place the extraordinary ceremony of the coronation of Henry (Beauchamp), Duke of Warwick, as " King of the Isle of Wight," who, however, does not appear to have ever acquired the Lordship thereof, and who d. in 1455, aged 22, in the lifetime of Duke Humphrey ; (7) iu 1452, to Edmund (Beaufort), Duke of Somerset, slain 1455 ; (8) in 1457 (aa Lieut, and Warden), to Henry (Beaufort), Duke of Somerset, beheaded 1464 ; and (9) in 1474, to Anthony (Wydeville), Earl Rivers, beheaded 1483. His br., Sir Edward Wydeville, was made Captain (possibly Lord) of that island by Henry VII, but since that reign, "at any rate, there has been no Royal grant of the island." See Plancho's " Lords of the Isle of Wight," above alluded to, where is a curious wood cut of tho Duke of Warwick, the young King (1444) of that "island. (6) Mr. Stapleton's arguments that this Baldwin was the 1st Earl of Devon and was so or, by King Stephen, are refuted iu Planches - Earls of Devon," pp. 2G0-27O.