Map showing manors in Normandy associated with the origins of Baldwin FitzGilbertSurviving motte and ruins of keep of Okehampton Castle, built by Baldwin FitzGilbert and caput of his feudal barony of Okehampton
Baldwin FitzGilbert (died 1086–1091) (aliasBaldwin the Sheriff, Baldwin of Exeter, Baldwin de Meulles/Moels and Baldwin du Sap) was a Norman magnate and one of the 52 Devon Domesday Book tenants-in-chief of King William the Conqueror, of whom he held the largest fiefdom in Devon, comprising 176 holdings or manors. He was feudal baron of Okehampton,[1] seated at Okehampton Castle in Devon.
^Sanders, I.J. English Baronies: A Study of their Origin and Descent 1086–1327, Oxford, 1960, p.69
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BaldwinFitzGilbert (died 1086–1091) (alias Baldwin the Sheriff, Baldwin of Exeter, Baldwin de Meulles/Moels and Baldwin du Sap) was a Norman magnate and...
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Okehampton Castle, which was established by the Norman Sheriff of Devon, BaldwinFitzGilbert (d.1090), and the 17th century Okehampton Town Hall. Okehampton was...
holdings of BaldwinFitzGilbert (died 1090), Sheriff of Devon (alias Baldwin the Sheriff, Baldwin of Exeter, Baldwin de Meulles/Moels and Baldwin du Sap)...
(daughter of Richard de Rullos and his wife Godiva d'Envermeu) married BaldwinFitzGilbert and left an eldest daughter and co-heiress Emma de Rullos, wife of...
1035. When Gilbert was assassinated in 1039 or 1040, his young sons Baldwin and Richard fitzGilbert fled with their guardians to Baldwin V, Count of...
barony of Okehampton was BaldwinFitzGilbert (dead by Jan 1091) called in the Latin Domesday Book of 1086 Baldvinus Vicecomes, "Baldwin the Viscount" (of Devon)...
Avenell, a son of the castle-builder BaldwinFitzGilbert; de Avenell also founded a priory at nearby Cowick. In 1136, Baldwin de Redvers seized the castle as...
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Gwynedd Robert Fitz Richard de Clare, perhaps died in childhood Rohese de Clare, m. Gilbert de Gant, Earl of Lincoln. Lucy de Clare, m. Baldwin de Redvers...
Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, KG, PC, PC (Can), JP, FRS (3 August 1867 – 14 December 1947) was a British statesman and Conservative politician...
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castle in Devon, England. It was built between 1068 and 1086 by BaldwinFitzGilbert following a revolt in Devon against Norman rule, and formed the centre...
Vauville was in charge of the garrison at Exeter castle but was replaced when Baldwin de Moeles (or de Brionne) was appointed sheriff by William I . In the eleventh...
Martin de Turribus and William fitzBaldwin (sheriff of Devon, and son of the previous such sheriff, BaldwinFitzGilbert) respectively. At the same time...
identified Richard de Redvers with Richard the son of BaldwinFitzGilbert (also known as Baldwin de Meules) who was sheriff of Devon under William the...
107th of the 176 Devon landholdings of Baldwin the Sheriff, otherwise known as BaldwinFitzGilbert and Baldwin de Meulles. He held it in demesne. He was...
Peerage, new edition, vol.IV, p.317, pedigree chart "The Heirs of Richard FitzBaldwin" Sanders, p.112: The manor of Christchurch, sometimes called a barony...
and support by BaldwinFitzGilbert (died 1090), Sheriff of Devon, and feudal baron of Okehampton (alias Baldwin de Meulles and Baldwin du Sap), tenant-in-chief...
of their personal abilities and usefulness. Thus, for instance, Turstin FitzRolf, the relatively humble and obscure knight who had stepped in at the last...
Castle 1068–1086 Ruins A motte and bailey castle, which was built by BaldwinFitzGilbert due to a revolt against Norman rule, and formed the centre of the...
abbey was founded as a canonry, by a charter granted in 1138, by BaldwinfitzGilbert de Clare (with the consent of Roger his son and Adelina his wife)...
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