Baldwin de Reviers 1st Earl of Devon
- Born: Abt 1102, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England
- Marriage: Adelica 141
- Died: 4 Jun 1155, Exeter, Devon, England about age 53 141
- Buried: 1155, Quarr Abbey, Ryde, Isle of Wight, England 141
 Information about this person:
• Background Information. 141
Baldwin de Reviers, son and heir of Richard de Reviers, on the rumor of the King's death, in April 1136, was one of the first to break into revolt. Seizing the royal castle of Exeter, he sustained a long siege by the King, and was ultimately allowed to withdraw his forces on giving up the castle. The King then proceeded to the Isle of Wight, took possession of the island, and drove him, with his wife and children, into exile. Baldwin took refuge at the Court of the Count of Anjou, and soon afterwards conducted a successful raid into Normandy. About Lent 1138, Enguerrand de Say, a partisan of King Stephen, took him prisoner in Normandy. He returned to England in the autumn of 1139, shortly before the arrival of the Empress Maud, and, landing at Wareham, seized the castle of Corfe. This he defended successfully against the King, forcing him eventually to raise the siege. By the Empress, he was created Earl of Devon, probably in 1141, and certainly before Midsummer in that year. He married Adelise. He died 4 June 1155, and was buried, as was his wife, in Quarr Abbey, which he had founded in 1132.
~ Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, (Devon), p. 311-312
Baldwin married Adelica.141 (Adelica was born about 1105 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England, died after 1155 in Exeter, Devon, England and was buried in Quarr Abbey, Ryde, Isle of Wight, England.)
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