Plympton in the Olden Time, by James Hine, F.R.I. B. A. 87 
which ensued, he was restored to all his honours and possessions 
by Henry II. He died A.D. 1155, and was succeeded by his son 
Richard de Redvers. 
Baldwin, the eighth Earl, was the last of the male Redvers or 
Rivers who held the barony of Plympton. His death, by poison, 
occurred in France in 1262, and the inheritance of the Earls of 
Devon and Lords of Plympton, descended to Isabella de Redvers, 
the wife of the Earl of Albermarle, who styled herself Countess of 
Devon. 'J heir only issue was a daughter, Aveline, who married 
the Earl of Lancaster, and she dying in 1293, without issue, 
Hugh Lord Courtenay, next heir to Isabella, Countess of Devon, 
and lineally descended from John Courtenay, Lord of Okehampton, 
who married the daughter of Sir William de Redvers, became 
ninth earl. 
The possession by the Courtenays during succeeding centuries 
of the Earldom of Devon and the Barony of Plympton, was 
marked by many interesting and even tragical incidents, but these 
have no very immediate connection with the subject of this paper.^- 
The barony of Plympton was subdivided in the reign of Queen 
Mary. In the beginning of the last century it was in the hands 
of three families. It is now invested in the Earl of Morley. 
The castle (probably rebuilt after its partial demolition in the 
time of Baldwin de Rivers, second Earl) does not appear to have 
been much molested between the reigns of Stephen and Charles 
the First ; at least, we have no record of any memorable event 
during that long interval. 
At the beginning of the civil war, Plympton was the head 
quarters of the force which the royalists then had in the county. 
* One remarkable circumstance— mentioned by Pole— concerning Henry Courtenay, 
created Earl in 1525, may be noted. " This Henry," says Pole, " was soe intimate unto 
King Henry the 8th, that having no issue he intended to have made hym his successor 
unto the crown ; but afterwards he fell into high displeasure of the King, so, as being 
questioned with divers others for ayding of Cardinale Poole, and intencion for the 
raising of forcea on the Pope's behalf, he was arraigned, convicted, and executed for 
treason." 
