Baldwin de Redvers, 7th Earl of Devon

Baldwin de Redvers, 7th Earl of Devon[1] (1 January 1236 – 1262), feudal baron of Plympton in Devon[2] and Lord of the Isle of Wight, was the son of Baldwin de Redvers, 6th Earl of Devon and Amice de Clare, daughter of Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford. He succeeded his father at the age of ten.

Arms of de Redvers:
Or, a lion rampant azure

He died in the expedition of Henry III of England to France in 1262; the record of his death by the royal clerks was made on 13 September. He was succeeded by his sister, Isabella de Fortibus,[3] widow of William de Forz, 4th Earl of Albemarle.

Marriage edit

He married, shortly after his coming of age, in 1257, Margaret, daughter of Thomas II of Savoy, Count of Flanders.[4] They had one child:

  • John de Redvers, who died an infant.

Notes edit

  1. ^ Cokayne 1916, pp. 319–22
  2. ^ Sanders, I.J. English Baronies: A Study of their Origin and Descent 1086-1327, Oxford, 1960, pp. 137–8, Barony of Plympton
  3. ^ Labarge 1997, p. 107.
  4. ^ Jobson 2012, p. xxvi.

References edit

  • Cokayne, George Edward (1916). The Complete Peerage, edited by H.A. Doubleday. Vol. IV. London: St. Catherine Press.
  • Jobson, Adrian (2012). The First English Revolution: Simon de Montfort, Henry III and the Barons' War. Bloomsbury Academic.
  • Labarge, Margaret Wade (1997). A Medieval Miscellany. Carleton University Press.

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Peerage of England
Preceded by Earl of Devon
1245–1262
Succeeded by