Richard de Reviers Lord of Vernon, first Baron of Shipbroke

   Another name for Richard was Richard de Vernon.

  General Notes:

~Ormerod's The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, "Vernon of Shipbrook Pedigree, Vol. III" p. 252, Richard de Vernon, grantee of Shipbrook, father of William de Vernon, baron of Shipbrook ⁷¹³

  Information about this person:

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Richard de Reviers, Seigneur de Reviers, Vernon, and Néhou, in Normandy. His parentage is unknown, but he has been conjectured to be son and heir of William de Vernon. In a charter of Henry I to the canons of Breamore, it appears that Richard's son, Baldwin, had an Uncle Hugh, who may be the Hugh de Redeveris mentioned in a memorandum of La Trinité at Caen. Also the Hugh mentioned as son of William de Vernon in a document in the cartulary of La Trinité de Rouen, signed by William Vernoneniss and Emma his wife. In the register of Carisbrooke [Monasticon, vol. Vii, p. 1041] it is said that Richard de Reviers was nepos of William Fitz Osborn, after whose death, the Isle of Wight was inherited by Richard de Reviers because William Fitz Osborn's two sons had died without issue. Richard de Reviers may have been the son of William de Vernon by Emma, sister of William Fitz Osborn. William of Jumièges states that a nice of Gunnor, the wife of Duke Richard was married to Osmund de Centumvillis, Vicomté de Vernon, and was the mother of the first Fulk de Aneio and of the mother of the first Baldwin de Reviers.

In Domesday Richard appears as the possessor of a single Manor Mosterton in Dorset. It has been erroneously considered that Henry I created him Earl of Devon. The authorities for this are the statements made in two monastic chronicles. There is, however, abundant charter evidence that he never styled himself an Earl, that his wife in her widowhood never styled herself a Countess, and that none of their children, or their grandchildren, ever so styled them this way. He was the founder (in the technical sense of the word) of the Abbey of Montebourg.

Richard married Adelise, daughter of William Peverel of Nottingham, the elder, by Adeline, his wife. He died 8 September 1107, and was buried in the Abbey of Montebourg. His widow survived her eldest son, Baldwin, and died 27 May 1156 or later.

~ Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, (Devon), pp. 309-310

• Background Information. ⁷⁵²
Richard de Vernon, Lord of Vernon, who was one of the Barons created by Hugh Lupus, to whom William the Conqueror, in the 20th year of his reign, granted the county-palatine of Chester.

It appears from the Doomsday book, that this Ricahrd de Vernon, first Baron of Shipbroke, held the lands and manors of Aston, Picton, Shipbroke, Crew, Hetune, Cocheshall, Wice, Malatune, Wanetun, Devenham, Dovestock, Adeline, Boetbury, and others. He was a benefactor, with Hugh Lupus, to the abbey of St. Werburgh in Chester, and during the reign of William II, gave tithes of Easton and Picton, to that abbey. He was succeeded by his eldest son and heir, William de Vernon, whose son was Hugh de Vernon.

~Collins's Peerage of England, Vol. 7, pgs. 396-397

Richard married Adeliza Peverel, daughter of William Peverel and Adeline. (Adeliza Peverel was born about 1072 in Nottingham Castle, Nottinghamshire, England, died 27 May 1156 or later in Devonshire, England ¹⁴¹ and was buried in Abbey of Montebourg, Devonshire, England ¹⁴¹.)