Redvers Coat of Arms / Family Crest

(Earl of Devon, Earldom passed to Courtenay; Richard De Abrincis, alias De Redvers, son of Baldwin De Brioncis, who came to England with William I., was created by Henry I. Earl of Devon, with a grant of the Isle of Wight in fee; Baldwin De Redvers, eighth Earl of Devon, d. s. p. 1262, when his sister, Isabel, became his heir, she d. s. p. 1293, when the earldom devolved upon the heir-at-law of the last earl, viz., Sir Hugh Courtenay, Baron of Okehampton, grandson of Robert De Courtenay, feudal Baron of Okehampton, by the Lady Mary, eldest surviving dau. of William De Redvers, sixth Earl of Devon, from whom the earldom has descended, through various vicissitudes, attainders, forfeitures, and new creations, always through the family of Courtenay, to the present possessor of the earldom, under the patent of restoration of Mary I., dated 3 Sept. 1553). Or, a lion ramp. az. armed and langued gu.