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Richard de Redvers"of Reviers in Normandy", by some held to be Earl of Devon (? – 8 September 1107) accompanied William the Conqueror to England in 1066. He assumed the name of Richard de Ripariis, afterwards anglicized into Redvers, or less commonly, Rivers.

The precise origins of this "Richard de Ripariis" or Richard de Redvers are unclear; he was possibly the son of Baldwin Fitz Gilbert, who was Sheriff of Devonshire and brother of the Richard Fitz Gilbert who established the de Clare family, but it is also possible that the two families were entirely separate.

Richard Fitz-Gilbert, first Earl of Devon, is often confused with his father's kinsman, Richard Fitz-Gilbert Clare. He was one of the earliest Norman settlers this country, and although he did not, at first, receive as large a share of the plundered property of the Saxons as that which fell to the lot of his brother Baldwin de Brion, he held six manors as sub-tenant to the latter; five under the Earl of Mortaigne, uterine brother to King William; two, under William the Porter and Ralph de Pomeroy respectively; besides the Manor of Levaton in that part of the parish of Ipplepen (now Woodland), which was his own demesne in the year 1087.

Richard de Redvers was one of the principal supporters of Henry I in his initial struggle against his brother Robert Curthose for control of the English throne. Henry bestowed on him the towns of Tiverton, Honiton (1100) and the honour of Plympton, together with a yearly pension of one-third of the revenue of that county. The Lordship of the Isle of Wight was also bestowed on him in 1102, which remained in his lineal descendance through a series of De Redvers and De Vernons until the reign of King Edward I.

In the cartulary of Carisbrook he is called the nephew of William Fitzosbern, 1st Earl of Hereford, and the grant of the Isle of Wight to him after the death of Roger de Breteuil, certainly gives some support to the assertion. William Fitzosbern had at least one other daughter besides the unfortunate Countess of Norfolk, of whom we learn no more than that she became the mother of Raynold de Cracci. Her daughter may have been the wife of Richard de Redvers, which would justify the expression "nepos," used indifferently for nephew or grandson.

According to other sources, his wife was Lady Adeliza, a daughter of William Peverel of Nottingham and his wife Adelina of Lancaster.

Richard de Redvers had children:

1. Baldwin de Redvers, 1st Earl of Devon.
2. William de Vernon.
3. Hubert de Vernon.
4. Robert of St. Mary Church.
5. Hadewise de Redvers, married William de Roumare, Earl of Lincoln.

• The Conqueror and His Companions: Richard de Redvers