Baldwin de Redvers, 1st Earl of Devon(? – 4 June 1155, ), was the son of Richard de Redvers and his wife Adeline Peverel. June 4 is the 155th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (156th in leap years), with 210 days remaining. ... Events Frederick I Barbarossa crowned Holy Roman Emperor. ...

He was one of the first to rebel against King Stephen. He seized Exeter, and was a pirate out of Carisbrooke, but he was driven out of England to Anjou, where he joined the Empress Matilda. She made him Earl of Devon after she established herself in England, probably in early 1141. Stephen (1096 – October 25, 1154), the last Norman King of England, reigned from 1135 to 1154, when he was succeeded by his cousin Henry II, the first of the Angevin or Plantagenet Kings. ... The city of Exeter is the county town of Devon, in England, UK. It is located at , . In the 2001 census its population was recorded at 111,066. ... Carisbrooke Castle Carisbrooke Castle is a historic castle located near Newport, Isle of Wight // Early History The site of Carisbrooke Castle may have been occupied in pre-Roman times. ... Anjou is a former county (c. ... Empress Matilda (February, 1101 – September 10, 1167) (Saxon form Maud or Maude) – was the daughter and dispossessed heir of King Henry I of England. ...

He founded several monasteries, notably those of Quarr Abbey (1131), in the Isle of Wight, and the Priory of St. James, at Exeter. Some monastic chronicles call his father also Earl of Devon, but no contemporary record uses the title, including the monastic charters. Events May 9 - Tintern Abbey is founded. ... The Isle of Wight is an English island, south of Southampton off the southern English coast. ... The city of Exeter is the county town of Devon, in England, UK. It is located at , . In the 2001 census its population was recorded at 111,066. ...

Family and children

He was married to Adelise Baluun (d. aft. 1155) and had children:

1. Richard de Redvers, 2nd Earl of Devon.
2. Henry de Reviers
3. William de Redvers, 5th Earl of Devon.
4. Eva (of Devon) de Reviers, married to Anschetil (of Thurlock) Grey.
5. Maud, married Ralph de Avenel.