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.
William of Worcester's Chronicle of England
William of Worcester, born around 1415, and died around 1482 was secretary to John Fastolf, the renowned soldier of the Hundred Years War, during which time he collected documents, letters, and wrote a record of events. Following their return to England in 1440 William was witness to major events. Twice in his chronicle he uses the first person: 1. when writing about the murder of Thomas, 7th Baron Scales, in 1460, he writes '… and I saw him lying naked in the cemetery near the porch of the church of St. Mary Overie in Southwark …' and 2. describing King Edward IV's entry into London in 1461 he writes '… proclaimed that all the people themselves were to recognize and acknowledge Edward as king. I was present and heard this, and immediately went down with them into the city'. William’s Chronicle is rich in detail. It is the source of much information about the Wars of the Roses, including the term 'Diabolical Marriage' to describe the marriage of Queen Elizabeth Woodville’s brother John’s marriage to Katherine, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, he aged twenty, she sixty-five or more, and the story about a paper crown being placed in mockery on the severed head of Richard, 3rd Duke of York.
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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.
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 