Seigneur Richard de Reviers 
Richard was born about 1060 in Reviers,Normandie.1 Richard's father was William De Vernon and his mother was Emma FitzOsbern. His paternal grandparents were Gilbert "Crispin" Brionne and Gunnora D' AUNOU; his maternal grandparents were Osbern Steward of Normandy and Emma of Ivry. He was an only child. He died on September 8th, 1137 in Abbey of Montbourg,Devonshire,England.1 General Notes
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Richard de Reviers, Lord of Reviers, Vernon, and Nehou (all in Normandy). [Burke's Peerage. p. 832]
Richard; feudal Lord of Vernon and holder of many manors at the time of the Domesday Survey 1086; enjoyed a local prominence in the County Palatine of Chester as Baron of Shipbrooke (a subinfeudatory rank (but not a peerage title) conferred by Hugh d'Avranches or Lupus (ie. "Wolf", so-called from his ferocity and acquisitiveness), Earl of Chester with quasi-regal powers, so created 1071 in the reign of his great-uncle of the half blood William I ("The Conqueror"). [Burke's Peerage, p. 2884 on the Barony of Vernon]
Note: Burke's does not document that Richard was made an Earl of Devon.
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Richard de Abrincis, surnamed de Redvers, having s. to the honours and possession of his father, resigned the Barony of Okehampton, the sheriffalty of Devon, and the custody of the castle at Exeter, in favour of his nephew, Robert de Abrincis, and was created Earl of Devon by King Henry I with a grant of the Isle of Wight in fee. This nobleman (who, from residing chiefly at Exeter, was generally called Earl of Exeter) m. Adeliza, dau. and co-heiress of William FitzOsborne, Earl of Hereford, and had issue,
I. Baldwin de Redvers, his successor.
II. William de Redvers, surnamed de Vernon.
III. Robert de Redvers.
I. Hadwise, m. to William de Romare, Earl of Lincoln.
Richard de Redvers, 1st Earl of Devon, d. in 1137, and was s. by his eldest son, Baldwin de Redvers. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, London, 1883, p. 140, Courtenay, Barons Courtenay, Earls of Devon]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.~ 0893 in Normandy,France d.17 DEC 942 in Picardy,France
- b.28 AUG 933 in Faecamp Normandy d.20 NOV 996 in Faecamp Normandy
- b.~ 0878 in Bretagne,France d.< 0940
- b.0953 in Normandy,France d.~ 1015 in ,,Normandy,France
- b.BET. 885 - 914 in Denmark d.BET. 955 - 1000 in Jomsborg,Denmark
- b.~ 0946 in ,,Normandy,France d.1031 in ,,,France
- b.~ 0905 in ,,,Sweden d.1000 in Y
- b.~ 0979 in Of,,Normandy,France d.1040 in Assassinated
- b.~ 0840 in Friesland,Germany d.> 0873
- b.0905 in Germany,Thuringia d.0965
- b.~ 0869 in ,,Lorraine,France d.0908
- b.~ 0958 in Castle At Guines,Pas-DE-Calais,France d.Deceased in Y
- b.~ 0889 in Gand Flanders Belgium d.27 MAR 964
- b.~ 0939 in of,Flanders,Flanders,Belgium d.~ 0965 in Y
- b.Abt 910/915 in of,Vermandois,Normandy,France d.10 OCT 958/960 in Bruges
- b.~ 1032 in Meules,Normandy,France d.1090
- b.~ 0952 in Germany d.Deceased
- b.~ 0969 in Courcy,Ardennes,France d.Deceased
- d.DEC
- b.~ 0985 in Aunou,Orne,Normandy,France d.> 1007 in Y
- b.~ 0970 in Normandy,France d.< 1020
- b.~ 0984 in Tillieres,Eure,France d.Deceased in Y
- b.0937 in Tillieres,Normandy,France d.0962
- b.0963 in Normandy France
- b.0942 in Tillieres,Normandy,France
- b.~ 0985 in Normandy,France d.Deceased
- b.<964> in <Of,,Normandy,France>
- b.~ 1060 in Reviers,Normandie d.08 Sep 1137 in Abbey of Montbourg,Devonshire,England
- b.0860 in in Danmark d.0945 in in Gormshoj,Jellinge,Vejle,Danmark
- b.BET. 885 - 914 in Denmark d.BET. 955 - 1000 in Jomsborg,Denmark
- b.0865 d.0935
- b.~ 0944 in ,Normandy,France
- b.~ 0885 in Of,,,Sweden
- b.~ 0905 in ,,,Sweden d.1000 in Y
- b.~ 0886 in Of,Uppsala,Uppsala,Sweden
- b.~ 1000 in Normandy,France
- b.~ 1034 in Normandy,France
- b.~ 0911
- b.~ 0978 in Ivry,France
- b.~ 0884 in Of,Vermandois,Normandy,France d.23 FEB 942/943 in St Quentin,France
- b.~ 0878 in Bretagne,France d.< 0940
- b.~ 0897 in of Vermandois,France d.>Mar 0931 in France
- b.~ 1008 in Ivry,France
- b.0983 in Caux,France
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Richard and Adelise were married in a religious ceremony. They had two sons and a daughter, named William, Baldwin and Hawyse.
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Children
William de Vernon
William was born about 1095 in Northwich (Shipbrook),Cheshire,England.2 He died about 1174.2
Baldwin de Reviers 1st Earl of Devon
Baldwin was born about 1102 in Isle of Wight,Hampshire,England.2 He died on June 4th, 1166.2
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