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Baldwin FitzGilbert, "the Sheriff"

Baldwin FitzGilbert, "the Sheriff"[1]

Male Abt 1020 - 1090  (70 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.

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  • Name Baldwin FitzGilbert 
    Suffix "the Sheriff" 
    Birth Abt 1020  Meules, Normandy, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death 1090 
    Siblings 2 Siblings 
    Person ID I21452  Geneagraphie | Voorouders HW
    Last Modified 2 May 2021 

    Father Gilbert de Brionne   d. ca 1040 
    Family ID F323204  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Albreda d' Avranches,   b. Abt 1020   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Marriage
    • From Stirnet:

      BE1883 (Courtenay of Devon) shows Baldwin as father of Richard de Redvers and Robert and Emma mentioned below.

      TCP (Devon) names his wife as Emma or Auberee and reports that she was related to King William I ("first cousin, or niece").

      BE1883 identifies Baldwin's wife as Albreda d'Avranche which would make her related through her mother's mother who was mother of the King.

      We therefore accept the identity given by BE1883.

      TCP (Devon) shows their issue as follows:
    Children 
     1. Robert FitzBaldwin   d. Yes, date unknown
     2. William FitzBaldwin   d. Yes, date unknown
     3. Richard Crispin   d. Yes, date unknown
    +4. Adelicia de Bryonis   d. 24 Aug 1142
    +5. Emma FitzBaldwin de Crispin,   b. Abt 1037, Okehampton, Devonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
    +6. Roger de Molis,   b. Abt 1080, Lewe, Devonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
    Family ID F119814  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 19 Jan 2021 

    Family 2 Emma Aldreda d' Ivry,   b. 1059, Ivry, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown 
    Family ID F260117  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 19 Mar 2010 

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  • Notes 
    • de Brion
      Lord of Le Sap, Maules, Okehampton.
    • Baldwin Fitz-Gilbert, of Brionis or Moels, 2nd son, a follower of the Conqueror, called Vicecomes, and Baldwin of Exetor.
      He was Seigneur de Meules and du Sap, in Normandy.
      After the death of his father, who was murdered by the son of Giroie, he and his brother Richard, who was ancestor of the de Clares, took refuge at the court of the Duke of Flanders. Duke William afterwards restored to Baldwin his estates of Meules and Sap, and to Richard FitzGilbert his estates of Bienfaite and Orbec, portions of their father's lands. Baldwin received from the Conqueror some 150 lordships in Devonshire, Hemington and Parlock and Apley in Somerset, and Iwerne in Dorset. Okehampton was the capital seat of his barony.
      He was Sheriff of Dorset 1080-1086 probably until his death. (After the Conquest the sheriffs were still the King's representatives in the county. As the King was nearly absolute, the sheriff was very powerful.
      The sheriff had important duties:
      1. Finance. He farmed the shire at a fixed sum a year.
      2. Justice. He was the King's representative in the shire court, and he sat there as president, or as a royal judge.
      3. War. It was the duty of the sheriff to summon the forces of the county. The great lords led their own retainers, but the sheriff led all the rest of the troops.
      --Montague's Elements of English Constitutional History. E. E. W. Very different from modern sheriffs. This was from a textbook at Washington University.) In Domesday Book he is called Baldwin of Exeter, or Baldwin, the Sheriff.
      He married Emma or Albreda, niece of the Conqueror. He died 1090.
      They had Robert, Richard and William.

  • Sources 
    1. [S190] Peter Barns-Graham, British Pedigrees, (Stirnet), Dukes of Normandy, Counts of Corbeil & Eu & Rosmar & Rouen, Lords of Hastings (Reliability: 2).



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