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Richard de Redvers, by some held to be Earl of Devon (? – 8 September 1107) accompanied William the Conqueror to England in 1066. He assumed the name of Richard de Ripariis, afterwards anglicized into Redvers, or less commonly, Rivers. Image File history File links Broom_icon. ... September 8 is the 251st day of the year (252nd in leap years). ... Events William Warelwast becomes Bishop of Exeter. ... William of Normandy (French: Guillaume de Normandie; c. ... Events January 6 - Harold II is crowned September 20 - Battle of Fulford September 25 - Battle of Stamford Bridge September 29 - William of Normandy lands in England at Pevensey. ...

The precise origins of this "Richard de Ripariis" or Richard de Redvers are unclear; he was possibly the son of Baldwin Fitz Gilbert, who was Sheriff of Devonshire and brother of the Richard Fitz Gilbert who established the de Clare family, but it is also possible that the two families were entirely separate.

Richard Fitz-Gilbert, first Earl of Devon, is often confused with his father's kinsman, Richard Fitz-Gilbert Clare. He was one of the earliest Norman settlers this country, and although he did not, at first, receive as large a share of the plundered property of the Saxons as that which fell to the lot of his brother Baldwin de Brion, he held six manors as sub-tenant to the latter; five under the Earl of Mortaigne, uterine brother to King William; two, under William the Porter and Ralph de Pomeroy respectively; besides the Manor of Levaton in that part of the parish of Ipplepen (now Woodland), which was his own demesne in the year 1087. The feudal concept of demesne is a form of manorial land tenure as conceived in Western Europe, initially in France but exported to England, during the Middle Ages. ...

Richard de Redvers was one of the principal supporters of Henry I in his initial struggle against his brother Robert Curthose for control of the English throne. Henry bestowed on him the towns of Tiverton, Honiton (1100) and the honour of Plympton, together with a yearly pension of one-third of the revenue of that county. The Lordship of the Isle of Wight was also bestowed on him in 1102, which remained in his lineal descendance through a series of De Redvers and De Vernons until the reign of King Edward I. Henry I (circa 1068 – 1 December 1135) was the fourth son of William the Conqueror and the first born in England after the Norman Conquest of 1066. ... Robert II (called Curthose for his short squat appearance) (c. ... Tiverton is a town in the County of Devon, in England. ... Location within the British Isles Honiton is a town in Devon, England. ... Plympton is a suburb located in south-east Plymouth. ... The Isle of Wight is an English island and county, off the southern English coast, to the south of the county of Hampshire. ... Events Valencia is captured by the Almoravids. ... Edward I (17 June 1239 – 7 July 1307), popularly known as Longshanks[1] and Hammer of the Scots,[2] achieved fame as the monarch who conquered Wales and who kept Scotland under English domination during his lifetime. ...

In the cartulary of Carisbrook he is called the nephew of William Fitzosbern, 1st Earl of Hereford, and the grant of the Isle of Wight to him after the death of Roger de Breteuil, certainly gives some support to the assertion. William Fitzosbern had at least one other daughter besides the unfortunate Countess of Norfolk, of whom we learn no more than that she became the mother of Raynold de Cracci. Her daughter may have been the wife of Richard de Redvers, which would justify the expression "nepos," used indifferently for nephew or grandson. Chartulary renders two Latin words, for a collection of charters viz. ... Carisbrook Stadium Carisbrook is a major sporting venue in Dunedin, New Zealand. ... William fitzOsbern (cir 1020 – February 22, 1071), Seigneur de Breteuil, was a relative and close counsellor of William the Conqueror who became one of the great magnates of early Norman England. ... The Isle of Wight is an English island and county, off the southern English coast, to the south of the county of Hampshire. ... Roger de Breteuil, 2nd Earl of Hereford (fl. ...

According to other sources, his wife was Lady Adeliza, a daughter of William Peverel of Nottingham and his wife Adelina of Lancaster. William Peverel, c. ...

Richard de Redvers had children:

1. Baldwin de Redvers, 1st Earl of Devon.
2. William de Vernon.
3. Hubert de Vernon.
4. Robert of St. Mary Church.
5. Hadewise de Redvers, married William de Roumare, Earl of Lincoln.

Baldwin de Redvers, 1st Earl of Devon(? – 4 June 1155, ), was the son of Richard de Redvers and his wife Adeline Peverel. ... William de Romare (born c. ...

External links

• The Conqueror and His Companions: Richard de Redvers