162 LANDOWNERS IN CORNWALL, 1165. 



record, was probably his son, and the father of Nicholas Fitz- 

 Geoffry, a witness to the confirmation charter to "William Boterell 

 by Earl Eeginald. This Nicholas Fitz-Geoffry, in the Scutage 

 roll (1196-1204) appears as holding 10 knights' fees ; his father, 

 Geoffry Fits-Baldwin having died between 1166 and 1196. 



Baldwin the Vice-Comes of the Earl, or Comes, in 1086, 

 married Albreda, daughter of Richard, surnamed G-oz, Count of 

 Avranche, son of Turstin, and had, with other issue, Richard, 

 surnamed De Reviers, (Redvers) who was created earl of Devon, 

 by King Henry I. This Richard first Earl of Devon ; died in 

 1137, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Baldwin de Redvers, 

 as second Earl of Devon, who died in 1155, and was succeeded 

 by his son, Richard de Redvers, third Earl of Devon, who 

 married Dionysia, daughter of Reginald Earl of Cornwall, and 

 had two sons, Baldwin and Richard. The third Earl of Devon 

 died in 1162, and his sons are found among the witnesses to the 

 confirmation charter above mentioned, as also the name of 

 William de Redvers, afterwards sixth Earl of Devon, Baldwin 

 and Richard, successively fourth and fifth earls having both 

 died s. p. It is very probable that Baldwin of this record was 

 of the family of De Redvers, whose son, Geoffrey, held the 

 goodly number of ten knights' fees. 



The ten fees held in 1166, by Geoffrey Fitz- Baldwin, and in 

 1 196, by Nicholas Fitz- Geoffrey, seem by a scutage roll in the Red 

 Book of the Exchequer, dated probably 1213 to 1220, to have 

 passed into the hands of Thomas de Hiddleton, who is therein 

 stated to hold ten knights' fees of the Honor of Middleton. 

 Sir Richard de Grenvill, whose father married Gundreda, and 

 died before 1205, is supposed to have married the heiress of 

 Thomas Fitz-Nicholls de Middleton, and to have died circa 1217. 

 The name of Grenvill first occurs in Cornish records, 40th Henry 

 III (1255), when Richard de Grenvile, son of the last mentioned, 

 appears to have been the largest land owner, being possessed of 

 fifty librates of land. Lysons says "that these ten fees 'de 

 honoure de Middleton,' were granted by King John, in 1203, to 

 William Briwere ; and this property of course we trace no 

 farther." 



