BOLBEC

Elihu Vedder, (1836 – 1923)
Dominicans (Three Monks at Fiesole) 1859 ca
The Fine Arts Museums, San Francisco

"Dominicans in Oxford
Past
The friars first came to Oxford on 15 August 1221. They had been sent to England by
a 'General Chapter' of their Order, which met under the presidency of St Dominic in
Bologna. The small band of thirteen friars made their first foundation not in
Canterbury or London, the ecclesiastical and political centres of England, but in
Oxford, the country's intellectual capital. There they would find recruits among the
University's students and masters, and bring the benefit of an Oxford education to
Dominican preaching.
With the help of the Mayor and other leading citizens, the first Blackfriars was built in the Jewish Quarter, between today's Town Hall and Christ Church. There was little room for expansion, and in 1245 a new site was obtained through the generosity of the Countess of Oxford outside the city walls where a new Priory for ninety friars and a large preaching church were built by the river. The English Parliament met there in 1258.
The daily life of prayer, study, and preaching ended abruptly in 1538 at the
Reformation, which saw the dissolution by Henry VIII of all religious houses in his
kingdom. Many friars fled abroad. The Priory gradually fell into ruins, and today only two archways remain on the site. Present
The foundation stone of a third Priory was laid on 15 August 1921. Dedicated to the
Holy Spirit, it was founded by Father Bede Jarrett, the first Dominican friar to study at Oxford since the Reformation. In bringing the Order back to the university and to the city he was helped by an American donor, Mrs Charlotte Jefferson Tytus, who purchased the site, then partly occupied by three houses on St Giles'."
The new Priory was designed by the architect Doran Webb and construction
stopped in 1929. The full community arrived on 17 May 1929, and the church was
consecrated three days later. A tower was added in the 1950s, but the building
remains essentially unfinished.
More than twenty friars currently live and work at Blackfriars. Their preaching extends beyond the Priory church into a wide variety of apostolic ministries. In particular, they study and teach in the Dominican Studium and in Blackfriars Hall, a Private Hall of the University of Oxford, where they are joined by other students with a variety of religious backgrounds from all over the world, who share their enthusiasm for philosophy and theology.

Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford - Dominicans in Oxford:
http://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/about_dominicans.php
Blackfriars Hall 2005 - 2009
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Robert DE VERE - 3rd Earl of Oxford
"Hereditary Master Chamberlain of England, one of the magnates appointed to
enforce KING JOHN's observance of Magna Carta; Justice Itinerant 1220 and
Justice in King's Court at Westminster 1221"
born - 1164
died - England - Hatfield Priory 1221
married - After 1205
Isabel DE BOLBEC of Wraysbury
born -
died - 03 FEB 1245
Children
1. Eleanor DE VERE
2. Henry DE VERE Knt.
3. Hugh DE VERE - 4th Earl of Oxford

Sources:

1. Title: The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215 : The Barons Named in the MagnaCharta, 12 15 and
Some of Their Descendants Who Settled in AmericaDuring the Early C olonial Years, Fifth
Edition
Abbrev: Weis [1999] Magna Charta Suret
Author: Frederick Lewis Weis, with additions and corrections by Walter Lee Sheppa rd Jr. and
William R. Beall
Publication: Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1999
Note:
Royal Families
Repository:
Name: Unknown
Page: line 120-1, p. 156
2. Title: Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans: Many of the English Anc estral Lines
Prior to 1300 of those Colonial Americans with known Royal A ncestry but Fully Developed in all
Possible Lines
Abbrev: Boyer, Med English Ancestors (2001)
Author: Compiled by Carl Boyer 3rd
Publication: Carl Boyer 3rd, PO Box 220333, Santa Clarita, CA 91322-0333, 2001
Page: p. 36, de BOLBEC 2:iii
3. Title: Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans: Many of the English Anc estral Lines
Prior to 1300 of those Colonial Americans with known Royal A ncestry but Fully Developed in all
Possible Lines
Abbrev: Boyer, Med English Ancestors (2001)
Author: Compiled by Carl Boyer 3rd
Publication: Carl Boyer 3rd, PO Box 220333, Santa Clarita, CA 91322-0333, 2001
Page: p. 253, de VERE of Oxford 4
4. Title: Ravilious email 23 May 2004: "Re: Peter de Valognes/Peter de Valence/Pier s de
Valoins", Recipient: Gen-Medieval-L@Rootsweb.com, Author E-mail: The rav3@aol.com
Abbrev: Ravilious email 23 May 2004
Author: John P. Ravilious
Publication: 23 May 2004
5. Title: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America befor e 1700: The
Lineage of Alfred the Great, Charlemagne, Malcolm of Scotlan d, Robert the Strong, and Some
of Their Descendants, 7th edition, Recor d Number: I
Abbrev: Weis [1992] "Ancestral Roots"
Author: Frederick Lewis Weis
Publication: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.Baltimore, 1992
Note:
Royal Families
Repository:
Name: Unknown
Page: line 60-28, pp. 65-66
6. Title: Pedigrees of Some of the Emperor Charlemagne's Descendants, Vol. II
Abbrev: Charlemagne's Descendants, Vol. II
Author: Compiler: Aileen Lewers Langston and J. Orton Buck, Jr.
Publication: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 1974 (1996 reprint)
Page: p. 145
7. Title: Burke's Peerage & Gentry Web Site, Url: http://www.burkes-peerage.net/sit
es/peerageandgentry/sitepages/home.asp
Abbrev: Burke's Peerage & Gentry Web Site
Page: Saint Albans Family Page

RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project: Ancestors of Alexandra Catlin Vaut, et al:
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=gregv&id=I10608
Updated: 2009-09-19 21:45:34 UTC (Sat) Contact: Gregory
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Hugh DE BOLBEC - 2nd Baron de Bolebec
Lord of Whitchurch - Buckinghamshire
born -
died - 1166
married -
Margaret of MONTFICHET
born - England - Stanstead Mountfitchet, Essex 1142
died -
Children
1 Walter DE BOLBEC
2. Isabel DE BOLBEC

Sources:
1. Title: Henry Duke Councilor His Descendants and Connections
Page: 434

RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project: Carrie's Family Tree:
Updated: 2009-09-06 18:17:19 UTC (Sun) Contact: RCKarnes
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=arciek&id=I17873
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Walter DE BOLEBEC
born -
died -
married -
Unknown
born -
died -
Children
1. Hugh DE BOLBEC

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Robert DE VERE
Isabel DE BOLBEC
"dau of Walter de Bolbec and Sibil de Vescy ? Isabel de Bolebec, sister of Walter de Bolebec and daughter of Hugh, 2d Baron de Bolebec.
(Henry Duke Councilor His Descendants and Connections, page 434)
Isabel de Bolebec, countess of Oxford (1165 – 3 February 1245) was eldest daughter
and co-heiress of Hugh II de Bolebec, lord of Whitchurch, Buckinghamshire, England
(d. c. 1166) and his wife Margaret de Montfichet. Isabel was a patroness of the Order of Friars Preacher (Dominicans) in England.
She married first Henry of Nonant (Novaunt), lord of Totnes, Devonshire who died
childless in 1206. In 1207, she petitioned the Crown for the right to marry whom she
wished. She received permission, and that same year she married Robert de Vere,
heir to the earldom of Oxford.[1] Her only known child, Hugh de Vere (later fourth earl of Oxford), was born within the next year, and Isabel became countess of Oxford
when Robert inherited the earldom from his brother in 1214.
Earl Robert joined the barons whose dissatisfaction with King John of England
prompted their rebellion, and the earl was one of twenty-five barons elected by the
terms of Magna Carta to ensure the king's continued good behavior. That position led
to his excommunication when Pope Innocent III released John from the terms of
Magna Carta, and the king took Castle Hedingham, Essex, the earl's seat, in 1216.
Robert made peace with the regents of John's son, Henry III of England, in 1217 and
eventually served as a judge until his death in 1222. The widowed Countess Isabel
purchased the wardship of her minor son and his inheritance for 6000 marks. They
travelled together on pilgrimage "beyond the sea" in 1237.
Countess Isabel was one of the chief benefactors of the Dominican Order in
England. She assisted the friars sent to England in 1221 to find quarters in the city of Oxford, contributing to the building of their oratory there c. 1227. When the friars needed a larger priory, she and the bishop of Carlisle bought land south of Oxford and contributed most of the funds and materials needed. She was buried in the new church there. The countess was litigious, engaging in a number of lawsuits,
including one long dispute with Woburn Abbey. (Wikipedia)"

RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project: Carrie's Family Tree:
Updated: 2009-09-06 18:17:19 UTC (Sun) Contact: RCKarnes
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