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Birth:          ABT 1028 of Meules, Normandy
Death:          1090 

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin_FitzGilbert
Baldwin FitzGilbert (died 1090) (alias Baldwin the Sheriff, Baldwin of Exeter, Baldwin 
de Meulles/Moels and Baldwin du Sap) was an Anglo-Norman magnate and one of the 
52 Devon Domesday Book tenants-in-chief of King William the Conqueror.
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He was originally from Meulles or nearby Le Sap, in Calvados, Normandy. He was a 
younger son of Gilbert, Count of Brionne and Count of Eu, in Normandy.

Career[edit]

Together with his eldest brother Richard FitzGilbert, in 1066 Baldwin accompanied 
William Duke of Normandy in the Norman Conquest of England.[2]

Following William the Conqueror's successful siege of the Saxon city of Exeter, that 
king appointed Baldwin castellan of the newly built Rougemont Castle in Exeter, a 
royal castle, and appointed him hereditary Sheriff of Devon, which position he held 
until his death. Exeter Castle was thenceforth the official seat of the Sheriff of Devon. 
King William I also granted him the very large feudal barony of Okehampton in Devon, 
at the caput of which he built Okehampton Castle.[3][4]

English landholdings[edit]

Baldwin's fiefdom in Devon was the largest in that county,[5] listed in the Domesday 
Book of 1086 as comprising 176 holdings, mostly manors or estates, except the first 
two listed holdings which consisted of groups of houses in Exeter and Barnstaple.[6] 
He is listed in the Domesday Book as "Baldvinus Vicecomes", literally translated as 
"Baldwin the Viscount", a Norman title signifying deputy to the Count of Devon, 
another Norman title called in the Anglo-Saxon language "Earl of Devon", which office 
was almost synonymous with the Sheriff of Devon, an Anglo-Saxon office, for which 
reason Baldwin is commonly known as "Baldwin the Sheriff".[7] These landholdings 
comprised the feudal barony of Okehampton, later held by the Courtenay family, later 
also feudal barons of Plympton and Earls of Devon.

Marriage & progeny[edit]

He married twice, firstly to Albreda and secondly to Emma. He had three sons, all of 
whom died childless, and one, possibly two, daughters:[8]
Richard FitzBaldwin, eldest son and heir.
William FitzBaldwin
Robert FitzBaldwin
Adeliza FitzBaldwin, her father's ultimate sole heiress.
Matilda FitzBaldwin (uncertain). She married William fitzWimund, who is listed in the 
Domesday Book of 1086 as holding land at Dolton, Devon in North Tawton Hundred, 
from his father-in-law Baldwin.[9]

Death and succession[edit]

Baldwin died in 1090. Following the deaths of his three sons without heirs, his 
daughter Adeliza was his ultimate sole heiress.

Parents
DE BRIONNE Gilbert ("Crispin") (ABT  980 - ABT 1040)
D'EU Constance (ABT 1009 - )

Siblings
DE CLARE Richard Fitzgilbert "de Tonbridge" (ABT 1024 - ABT 1090)
CRISPIN Heselia (ABT 1025 - )
FITZ GILBERT Baldwin (ABT 1028 - 1090)
DE CLARE Ann (1038 - )

Marriage To LE GOZ Albreda (Auberee) (Emma) (ABT 1032 - )
    m.  

Notes

Parents
LE GOZ Richard "le Goz" (ABT 1014 - AFT 1082)
----- ----- (unknown wife or mistress) (ABT 1015 - )

Children by LE GOZ Albreda (Auberee) (Emma) ABT 1032 - 
FITZ GILBERT Emma (ABT 1050 - 24 Aug 1142)
DE MOLIS Roger (ABT 1060 - )

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