William de Vernon de Redvers 5th Earl of Devon

• Preferred Name: William de Vernon de Redvers 5th Earl of Devon^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]}
  
• Alternate Name: William de Redvers 5th Earl of Devon
  
• Gender: M
  
• Birth: ABT 1128 in Devonshire, England at LATI: N0.7365 LONG: E3.7189
  
• Burial: AFT 19 SEP 1217 in Twyneham, Sussex, England at LATI: N0.9642 LONG: E0.2127
  
• Residence: of Montsbourg, Normandy, France
  
• FSID: MV95-58S
  
• Death: 10 SEP 1217 in Christ Church, Tiverton, Devonshire, England at LATI: N0.8998 LONG: E3.4916
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
  “MABEL OF MEULAN, married WILLIAM DE VERNON (or DE REVIERS, DE REDVERS), 5th Earl of Devon, of Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight, Exminster and Plympton, Devon, Christchurch, Hampshire, Crewkerne, Somerset, etc., younger son of Baldwin de Reviers, 1st Earl of Devon, by his wife, Adelise. They had one son, Baldwin, and two daughters, Mary and Joan. Sometime before 1188 he granted land and a house in Yarmouth, Hampshire to William Maskerel to make a hospital. He was heir in 1193 to his nephew, Richard de Reviers, 4th Earl of Devon. In the period, c.1193-1208, he confirmed earlier gifts of the advowsons of the churches of llsington, Stokeinteignhead, and Ugborough, Devon to Plympton Priory. He also either gave or confirmed to Plympton Priory the chapel of St. Mary in his castle at Plympton, Devon. In 1194 King Richard I granted him the tertius denarius of Devon as his father Baldwin and predecessor Richard had held it. He attended the second coronation of King Richard I in 1194, where he was one of four nobles who supported the silken canopy over the king. His wife, Mabel, was living 1 May 1204. In 1206 he sued Robert, Prior of Plympton regarding the advowson of the church of Exminster, Devon. WILLIAM DE VERNON, 5th Earl of Devon, died 10 Sept. 1217.
  
  Children of Mabel of Meulan, by William de Vernon:
  i. MARY DE VERNON, married (1st) PETER DE PREAUX, Knt., of Alton, Hampshire, Sudbury (in West Ham), Essex, etc. [see COURTENAY 3]; (2nd) ROBERT DE COURTENAY, Knt., of Okehampton, Devon [see COURTENAY 3].
  ii. JOAN DE VERNON, married WILLIAM BRIWERRE, Knt., of Horsley, Derbyshire, Odcombe, Somerset, etc. [see BRIWERRE 3.ii].”
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  Wikipedia
  
  William de Redvers, 5th Earl of Devon[1] (died 10 September 1217) (or de Reviers), of Tiverton Castle[2] and Plympton Castle, both in Devon, was feudal baron of Plympton in Devon.[3]
  
  Origins
  He was the son of Baldwin de Redvers, 1st Earl of Devon by his wife Adelize Ballon. William de Redvers is also known as William de Vernon, because he was brought up at Vernon Castle, in Normandy, the seat of his grandfather Richard de Redvers.
  
  Career
  In 1194 De Redvers took part in the second coronation of King Richard the Lionheart (1189-1199), when the Canopy was supported by four Earls. He was a firm supporter of Richard's younger brother and heir King John (1199-1216). Nevertheless, at the end of King John's life, in 1216 he permitted Falkes de Breauté, one of his mercenary captains, to seize De Redvers' widowed daughter-in-law, force a marriage, and take her dowry. These events are featured in Alfred Duggan's novel, Leopards and Lilies (1954).
  
  Marriage and issue
  He married Mabel de Beaumont, a daughter of Robert de Beaumont, Count of Meulan by his wife Maud FitzRoy, a daughter and co-heiress of Reginald de Dunstanville, 1st Earl of Cornwall by his wife Beatrice FitzRichard. By Mabel de Beaumont he had one son who predeceased him and two daughters:
  
  Baldwin de Redvers (b. after 28 April 1200; d. 1 September 1216), eldest son and heir apparent, who predeceased his father aged under 16, having married Margaret FitzGerold, daughter and heiress of Warin FitzGerold (1167-post-1216) (eldest son and heir of Henry FitzGerold (d.1174/5), Chamberlain to King Henry II[4]) by his wife Alice de Curcy, sister and heiress of William de Curcy IV (d.1194) feudal baron of Stoke Curcy (now Stogursey)[5] in Somerset and of Harewood in Yorkshire.[6] He left a son Baldwin de Redvers, 6th Earl of Devon.
  Mary de Redvers, known as "Mary de Vernon", who married firstly Pierre des Preaux (Anglicised to "Peter Prouz"[7] and Latinized as de Pratellis ("from the meadow")).[8] Ralph Brooke (1553–1625), York Herald, and others, stated that her descendants by her first marriage were the "Prouse" family of Gidleigh Castle and of Chagford in Devon;[9][10] the arms of de Redvers were quartered by this family, as is visible on the monument of Humphrey Prouse (d.1648) in Chagford Church. However the Devonshire historian Sir William Pole (d.1635) was sceptical about Brooke's version of the pedigree which he could "hardly admytt without better proofe than theire allegacion",[11] objecting that he had never encountered the Devonshire Prouses called de Pratellis in any documents, and that their name was instead Latinized as Probus ("upright, proud").[12] Mary de Redvers married secondly Robert de Courtenay (died 1242), feudal baron of Okehampton, Devon, son of Reginald de Courtenay (died 1194) by his wife Hawise de Curcy (died 1219), heiress of Okehampton. From this marriage the Courtenays later inherited the feudal barony of Plympton in 1293 and in 1335 were declared Earls of Devon.[13] Robert de Courtenay (died 1242) was the great-grandfather of Hugh de Courtenay, 1st/9th Earl of Devon (d.1340).
  Joan de Redvers, who married William Brewere; she had been betrothed to Hubert de Burgh, 1st Earl of Kent, but the marriage did not proceed.
  Death & succession
  He died on 10 September 1217 when his title passed to his grandson, Baldwin de Redvers, 6th Earl of Devon, his only son Baldwin de Redvers having predeceased him.
  
  BIO
  BIO: from http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL1.htm#WilliamDevondied1217 as of 8/23/2016
  
  WILLIAM de Vernon (-8 or 10 Sep 1217, bur Christ Church, Twynham). The Fundationis
  
  === !Complete Peerage ===
  !Complete Peerage
  
  === Notes and sources to Royal Ancestry ===
  Brooke Discoverie of Certaine Errours (1724): 75-76,112. Topographer 2 (1790): 288-291. Placitorum in Domo Capitulari Westmonasteriensi Asservatorum Abbrevatio (1811): 1. Risdon Chorographical Desc. or Survry of the County of Devon (1811): 356-357. Burke Gen'l & Heraldic Dict. of the Peerages of England, Ireland & Scotland (1831): 142-146 (sub Courtenay). Ferrey Antiqs. of the Priory of Christ-Church, Hants (1834): 6-7. Coll Top. et Gen. 2 (1835): 390. Guilrneth Histoire de la Ville et des Environs d'Elbeuf (1842): 393-467. Westcote View of Devonshire in MDC.,00C (1845): 421. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1846): 377-382 (Ford Abbey, Fundationis et Fundatorum Historia: "Anno itaque sequenti, quarto idus Septembris [10 Septembert obiit idem comes Willielmus."); 6(2) (1830): 843 (charter of William de Vernon dated pre-May 1188), 843-844 (charter of William de Vernon), 843-844 (confirmation charter of William de Vernon dated pre-1194). Stapleton De Antiquis Legibus Liber Cronica Maiorum et Vicecomitum Londoniarum (Camden Soc. 34) (1846): lvii. Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 464-466. Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 11(1855): 213-227. Adams Hist., Topog., & Antiqs. of the Isle of Wight (1856): 132-133. Collectanea Archaologica 1 (1862): 263-284. Western Antiq. 1 (1882): 37. Clark Mediæval Military Arch. in England 1 (1884): 390-391. Worthy Hist. of the Suburbs of Exeter (1885): 61-62, 81-82. Notes & Gleanings 2 (1889): 65-68. Worthy Practical Docs. Heraldry (1889): 193-195 (seal of William de Vernon, 6th Earl of Devon - "The device on his seal to an undated deed ... consists of three Roundles, and over them a label of three points."). MSS of the Duke of Somerset, the Marquis of Ailesbury & the Rev. Sir T.H.G. Puleston, Bart. (Hist. MSS Comm. 43) (1898): 133. Round Cal. Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 321 (charter of William de Vernon, Earl of Devon dated c.1196; charter names his wife, Mabel, and his grandmother, Adeliz de Rivers), 322. Depoin Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de St-Martin de Pontoise 3 (1901): 306-327. Bones Hist. du Canton de Meulan 1 (1906): 25-38. Guilloreau Cartulaire de Loders (1908): 19-20 (charter of William de Vernon, Earl of Devon dated c.1196; charter names his wife, Mabel, and his grandmother, Adeliz de Rivers), 20 (letter of William, Earl of Devon to Hubert Walter, Archbishop of Canterbury; letter names his grandmother, Adelicia de Rivers). C.P. 4 (1916): 771; 7 (1929): Appendix I, 740, footnote i (sub Counts of Meulan). D.N.B. 16 (1909): 828-829 (sub Redvers, Fam. of). Lays Sandford Cartulary 2 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 22) (1941): 200-201 (charter of William de Vernon dated pre-May 1188), 203-204 (confirmation charter of William de Vernon dated pre-1194). Paget Baronage of England (1957) 466: 3-4. Seversmith Col. Fams. of Long Island 5 (1958): 2440-2442. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 137-138. Hockey Quarr Abbey & its Lands, 1132-1631 (1970): 39, 61, 67, 85, 126. Bearman Charters of the Redvers Fam. & the Earldom of Devon, 1090-1217 (Devon & Cornwall Soc. n.s. 37) (1994). Power Norman Frontier in the 12th & Early 13th Cents. (2004): 245-246, 509 (Malian. ped.). Hanna Christchurch Priory Cartulary (Hampshire Rec. Ser. 18) (2007): 217 (charter of William de Vemun, Earl of Devon dated c.1193-1208; charter witnessed by Countess Mabel and Peter Meulent), 226 (charter of William de Redveriis, Earl of Devon dated 1194). Fizzard Plympton Priory (2008): 61, 82, 92-93 ("William de Vernon ... continued the pattern of patronage ... the majority of his charters, both confirmations and original gifts, were made to Christchurch Priory and Quarr Abbey, although he did issue a couple of confirmation charters to Plympton Priory ... [His charters] also record gifts and confirmations to the houses of Montebourg, Carisbrooke, Breamore, and Lyre as well as to the Knights Templar."), 113-114.
  
  === 1a. Source: "Ancestry of Roger Ludlow" ===
  1a. Source: "Ancestry of Roger Ludlow" by Seversmith, pp. 2,413 & 2,440-41. 1b. "Pole's History of Devonshire"; Devon 4, p.3; "The Complete Peerage", G.E.C., Eng. V, v.5, p.465, v.4, p315-17; "Visitations of Devon", Devon 2, pp243-44; "History of the Family of Courtenay", B18A16, p12, 126-129. 2a. Last name also listed as "de Vernon" (p. 2,413). 2b. "William de Vernon, as he was more frequently called,..." (p. 2,440). 3. Was "Earl of Devonshire" or "Earl of Devon." 4. William took part in Richard I's second coronation, 17 Apr 1194, being one of the earls who bore the canopy." (p. 2,441) 5. Death date listed as "8 or 10 Sep 1217".
  
  === William de Reviers, 5th Earl of Devon (d ===
  William de Reviers, 5th Earl of Devon (died 10 September 1217) was the son of Baldwin de Redvers, 1st Earl of Devon and Adelise Baluun. William de Redvers is also William de Vernon, because he was brought up at Vernon Castle, in Normandy, the seat of his grandfather.
  
  He took part in Richard the Lionheart's second coronation, in 1194, when the Canopy was supported by four Earls; he consistently supported King John. Nevertheless, at the end of John's life, the King permitted Falkes de Breaute, one of his mercenary captains to seize the Earl's widowed daughter-in-law, force a marriage, and grab her dowry. These events are also featured in the novel Leopards and Lilies by Alfred Duggan.
  
  On his death his title passed to his grandson, Baldwin de Redvers, 6th Earl of Devon, his only son, Baldwin de Redvers, having predeceased him.
  
  From the collection of Jerry Dean Ferren.
  
  === POLE'S HISTORY OF DEVONSHIRE, P.3; THE C ===
  POLE'S HISTORY OF DEVONSHIRE, P.3; THE COMPLETE PEERAGE (GS NUMBER 942 D24C) VOL 3 P.465; VOL 4 P.315-317, 323; VISITATIONS OF DEVONSHIRE, P.243, 244; HISTORY OF THE FAMILY OF COURTENAY, P.12, 126-129; ANCESTRAL FILE, LDS GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY;

• m. BEF 1184 in England

1. Mary de Vernon, b. 1185 in Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England     d. AFT 1244

1. Title: William de Redvers de Vernon, "Find A Grave Index"
   Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV28-2XFT : 14 June 2022), William de Redvers de Vernon, ; Burial, Christchurch, Christchurch Borough, Dorset, England, Christchurch Priory Churchyard; citing record ID 71971878, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
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2. Title: Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
   Publication: Name: https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL1.htm#WilliamDevondied1217;
   Note: WILLIAM de Vernon (-8 or 10 Sep 1217, bur Christ Church, Twynham). The Fundationis et Fundatorum Historia of Forde Abbey names “Ricardum, Henricum et Willielmum” as the three sons of ”comes Baldwinus”[489]. "Adeliz de Redveris" donated property to the abbey of Loders, Dorset, for the souls of "patris mei…Willelmi Pevrel de Notingeham…et matris mee Adeline", with the consent of "…nepotum meorum Ricardi de Reveris, Henrici atque Willelmi", by undated charter[490]. “Baldewinus comes Devoniæ” donated property to Exeter St James, with the consent of “Ricardo filio meo”, by undated charter witnessed by “…duobus filiis meis Willielmo et Henrico”[491]. "…Baldwino et Ricardo nepotibus meis, Willelmo de Vernun…" witnessed the charter dated to [1163/75] by which "Reginaldus, Henrici Regis filius, comes Cornubiæ" granted property to "Willielmo de Boterell, filio Aliziæ Corbet, materteræ meæ"[492]. He succeeded his nephew in [1193] as Earl of Devon, Lord of the Isle of Wight. “Willielmus de Vernon comes Devoniæ et filius comitis Baldewini” donated property to Quarr Abbey, for the souls of “patris mei comitis Baldewini et matris meæ Adeliciæ comitissæ et fratris mei comitis Ricardi et uxoris meæ Mabiliæ comitissæ”, by undated charter[493]. The Obituary of Lyre records the death 8 Sep of “Willelmus comes”[494]. The necrology of Mont-Bourg records the death "17 Sep" of "Guillelmus de Reveriis secundus"[495]. Henry III King of England notified "W. Briwerr juniori" of the death of "W. comes de Insula" and requested him to take custody of "castrum de Carebroc" until a decision about its custodianship dated [Sep] 1217[496]. m ([1178/86]) MABILE de Meulan, daughter of ROBERT de Beaumont Comte de Meulan & his wife Matilda of Cornwall ([1166/72]-after 1 May 1204). Her marriage date is estimated from the marriage date of her daughter Mary. Thomas Stapleton, in his "Observations on the Great Rolls of the Exchequer of Normandy", records that Robert Comte de Meulan devised his lands in Normandy and England "ex toto to Mabiria wife of William Earl of the Isle and to have them confirmed to [her], as to his next heir [tanquam heredi meo propinquiori]", by charter dated 1 May 1204 "copied into the cartulary of Beaulieu in the forest of Préaux near Rouen", witnessed by "John de Préaux, William de Préaux…"[497]. The Fundationis et Fundatorum Historia of Forde Abbey names “Mabilia comitissa” as the wife of ”Willielmum de Vernona”[498]. “Willielmus de Vernon comes Devoniæ et filius comitis Baldewini” donated property to Quarr Abbey, for the souls of “…et uxoris meæ Mabiliæ comitissæ”, by undated charter[499]. Earl William & his wife had three children: a) MARY de Vernon (-after 1244). b) JOAN de Vernon (-after 1233). c) BALDWIN de Vernon (after 28 Apr 1200-1 Sep 1216).
   
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   Note: Unknown-Begin: ; Devonport, Devonshire, England, United Kingdom "Armigerous" (ahr-MIJ-ehr-us) adjective Bearing or entitled to bear heraldicarms. The reason the notion of a family crest was brought into the languagewas that those who were armigerous (entitled to bear arms) used to put their crest or achieveme
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4. Title: WIKIPEDIA: William de Redvers, 5th Earl of Devon
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5. Title: William de Redvers 5th Earl of Devon, Wikipedia
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6. Title: The visitations of the county of Devon : Comprising the herald's
   Publication: Name: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=yale.39002002213917&view=1up&seq=640&skin=2021&size=175;
   
7. Title: Pedigrees of Charlemagne
   Author: Aileen Lewers Langston & J. Orton Buck, Jr, Pedigrees of Some of the Emperor Charlemagne's Descendants (Genealogical Publishing Co, Inc., Baltimore, MD. 1988), Page 122.