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314 DEVON DE Charenton, in that province. (") He d. s.p., lo or 28 May iiSS-C") His widow, who was aged 3 years in 1 176, m., in Aug. 1 189, at Salisbury, in the presence of Richard I and of Queen Alianore, Andre de Chau- viGNY,(') a Poitevin, afterwards a celebrated crusader.('^) He was one of those taken prisoners by King John at Mirebeau in Poitou, early in the morning of i Aug. 1202, when the King relieved that place. (") He was still living 30 Aug. following,() but d. the same yearjO being probably starved to death (like many others captured at the same time) in the King's dungeons, at Corfe or at Windsor.(8) His widow, who lost the lands in England which she had in dower from her ist husband,(^) d. in I22I,Q and was bur. in the Church of Deols. (*) " In civitate Bituricas . . . erat archiepiscopus vir nobilis et religiosus Henricus. Hujus itaque frater Odo cantor Bituricensis in episcopum Parisiensem . . . eligitur. Erant isti duo fratres Egidii de Soileio, nepotes magiii Theobald! Comitis, quorum soror Radulfo filio Ebonis de oppido de Dolis peperit matrem Guillelmi de Chavigni, qui per earn factus est dominus de Castro Radulfi." [Chron. Alberici Trium Fontium monachi, ad annum 1 196). This statement is followed by La Thaumassi^re {Hht. lie Berry)yAnitmc, and others, but it is erroneous. " Ego Guillermus de Calvigniaco dominus Castri Radulphi . . . Domina Agnes avia mea maritata fuit domino Radulpho avo meo cum castello et castellania de Mellant quod dominus Ebo de Carentonio pater ejusdem domine dedit ei in maritagio . . . Actum anno Domini M°cc°xvi° mense aprilis." {Cartul. des Sully, Archives du Cher, p. 176 — Raynal, Hist, du Berry, vol. ii. p. 43). (*>) In 1 1 88 according to the Annalei de JVaverleia, p. 245, where he is called Baldewinui Comes Cornuhie [j/c] consanguineus Regis (his mother being a granddaughter of Henry I). "10 Maii. Baldevinus Comes." {Obituary of Lyre). "28 Mail. Comes Baldoinus." {Obituary of Montebourg). if) "McLxxxix, Aug. [Ricardus Dux] venit ... ad civitatem Sarisbiriensem, ubi dedit cuidam militi suo nomine Andree de Chavenni filiam Radulfi de Dols cum Castro Radulfi et honore de Berri ad castrum illud pertinente, que quondam fuerat uxor Comitis Baldewini de Rivers, ct fecit eos desponsari a Gileberto Rofensi episcopo in presencia Alienore Reginc, i^c." (Benedictus, vol. ii, p. 76). There was some defect in this marriage, and it was established by a decree of Pope Innocent III, ii non. Junii 1202. (Migne, Patrologia Cursus, vol. ccxiv, col. 1019-20). {^) See the Itinerarium Regis Ricardi. Queen Alianore, in her grant to him in 1 199 of the fee of Ste. Severe in Berry, calls him karissimo amico et consanguineo nostra. {Trhor des Chartes, J 628 — Angleterre, I — no. 5, Orig. sealed). (') King John's letter (Coggeshale, pp. 137-8): Patent Roll, 4 Joh., m. 9. (') " Mccii. Obiit Andreas dc Calveniaco, optimus miles, sponsus Dionysie, duodecimus dominus Castri Radulphi." {Chron. Dolense, in Labbe, Novae Bihl., vol. i, p. 315). (e) Twenty-two m Corfe Castle alone, according to the Annals of Margan. C") William, Earl of the Isle, made a fine of 500 marks for having seizin of his castle of Plympton, and of the manors of Moresk and Rillaton, which were of the inheritance of the Countess of Meulan and which she had granted him, and the manor of Crewkerne, which was the dowry of the Countess of Berry, and of his fee. {Fine Roll, 6 Joh., m. 8). (') "Mccxxi. Obiit Dionysia undecima domina Dolensis, uxor Andree de Calveniaco." {Chron. Dolense).