DE VERE

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Henry DE BEAUMONT - 3rd Lord
born - Belgium - Brabant 1340
died - 17 JUN 1369
burial - England - Lincolnshire - Sempringham Priory
married - Scotland - Stirling,Stirlingshire 1360
Margaret DE VERE
born - England - Herefordshire 1344
died - 15 JUN 1398
burial - England - Grey Friars,London,Middlesex
Children
1. John DE BEAUMONT
2. Henry DE BEAUMONT
3.Eleanor DE BEAUMONT

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John DE VERE - 7th Earl of Oxford b: ABT 12 MAR 1311 - 12
Maud DE BADLESMERE
"John de Vere, 7th Earl of Oxford (c. 12 March 1312 – 24 January 1360) was the
nephew and heir of Robert de Vere, 6th Earl of Oxford. He succeeded as Earl of
Oxford in 1331, after his uncle died without issue. John de Vere was a trusted
captain of Edward III in the king's wars in Scotland and France, and took part in both
the Battle of Crécy and the Battle of Poitiers. He died campaigning in France in
1360. Throughout his career he was closely associated with William de Bohun, 1st
Earl of Northampton, who was his brother-in-law.
John de Vere was the only son of Alfonso de Vere, and Jane, daughter of Sir
Richard Foliot. Alfonso was a younger son of Robert de Vere, 5th Earl of Oxford, and
brother of Robert de Vere, 6th Earl of Oxford. When the younger Earl Robert's son
died without issue in 1329, the earl obtained licence from the king to entail his
estates on his nephew, John.[2] It was in this way that John de Vere, when his
uncle died 17 April 1331, became Earl of Oxford. He had made homage and
received livery by 17 May.[3]

In 1336 he married Maud de Badlesmere, who was the second of the four
daughters of Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Baron Badlesmere, of Badlesmere
in Kent and Margaret de Clare. Maud was a co-heiress of her brother Giles de
Badlesmere, 2nd Baron Badlesmere. When Giles died in 1338, this brought a
significant part of the Badlesmere inheritance into de Vere's hands. The marriage
also forged a strong bond with William Bohun, Earl of Northampton, who had
married Badlesmere's third daughter, Elizabeth de Badlesmere and thus became
Oxford's brother-in-law.[1][4] The two campaigned together, sat on the same
commissions and died the same year.[1]
[edit] Career

De Vere's military career began with service on Edward III's Scottish campaigns, in
the 1330s Second War of Scottish Independence. He took part in the Roxburgh
campaign of 1334–5, and in the summer campaign of 1335.[1] Later in the decade,
England's military efforts turned towards France, with the beginning of the Hundred
Years' War. In March 1340, de Vere served in Flanders, and was therefore out of the
country during Edward's disputes with Archbishop John de Stratford. Oxford was
not forced to take sides in the conflict, and has been described as a "political
neutral".[5]

After a period in England, de Vere returned to the Continent in 1342, where he
served with Northampton, who had been made lieutenant of Brittany. They both took
part in the Battle of Morlaix that year. The next year the two earls were sent to
Scotland to relieve Lochmaben Castle, and in 1345 they were again campaigning
in Brittany. Tradition has it that, returning to England, their ships were forced ashore
by bad weather, and the party was robbed of their possessions by the locals.[1] In
the summer of 1346 de Vere was campaigning with the king in Normandy, and took
part in the Battle of Crécy. According to the chronicler Froissart, de Vere was fighting
with the Black Prince, and was among the captains who sent a request to Edward
III for reinforcements when the king famously answered 'Let the boy win his spurs'.
[1] Oxford was also at the Siege of Calais, but reportedly fell ill in 1348, and did not
take part in any major campaigning until 1355.[1]

In 1355 he was again in the company of the Black Prince, and took part in the
prince's great raid in Languedoc. 19 September 1356, at the Battle of Poitiers,
Oxford was in command of the vanguard together with the earl of Warwick. de
Vere's attack on the flank of the French cavalry, with a group of archers, did much to
secure the English victory.[1] His last campaign was Edward III's Rheims
campaign in 1359–60. Here he died, probably during the raid into Burgundy, on 23
or 24 January 1360.[1][6] He was buried in the de Vere family's burial place Colne
Priory in Essex.[1]
Maud de Vere died in 1366. The couple had four sons and two daughters. The
eldest son, John, married the daughter of Hugh Courtenay, Earl of Devon, but died
before his father, in 1350. Also another son, Robert, died in his father's lifetime. The
oldest remaining son was then Thomas, born around 1336–7, who succeeded his
father in 1360. Thomas's son Robert succeeded at his father's death, but with
Robert's forfeiture in 1392, the earldom was given to Robert's uncle Aubrey – the
seventh earl's fourth son. The eldest daughter, Margaret, married three times, while
of the second, Matilda, little is known.[7]

John de Vere, in the family tradition of the "fighting de Veres",[8] was active in
almost all major military engagements in the years from 1340 to 1360.[9] On the
Roxburgh campaign he brought a retinue of twenty-eight men-at-arms and twelve
mounted archers.[1] In Brittany in 1342, the retinue had grown to forty men-at-arms,
one banneret, nine knights, twenty-nine esquires, and thirty mounted archers.[8]
His retinue was of a diverse composition, and also included foreign mercenaries.
[10] At one point, in the Battle of Poitiers, John Hawkwood, who was later to make
his fortune as a condottiero in Italy, also served with de Vere.[11] Yet in spite of this,
de Vere never distinguished himself particularly as a military commander. Neither
did he receive a great amount of royal patronage, and was never made a member
of the Order of the Garter. This was largely a consequence of the de Vere family's
relatively modest resources among the English peerage. As an example can be
mentioned that in the late 1340, £349 were owed to Oxford in arrears for his
services, yet at the same time the king owed Northampton two debts of £782 and
£1237.[12] This obstacle of resources and status John de Vere was unable to
overcome either by marriage or warfare.[1]"
References

1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Tuck, Anthony (2004-09), "Vere, John de, seventh earl of
Oxford (1312–1360)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford: Oxford
University Press, http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/28212, retrieved 2008-07-15
2. ^ McKisack, May (1959). The Fourteenth Century: 1307–1399. Oxford: Oxford
University Press. pp. p. 260. ISBN 0-19-821712-9.
3. ^ Powicke, Maurice; E.B. Fryde (1961). Handbook of British Chronology (2nd ed.
ed.). London: Royal Historical Society. pp. p. 442.
4. ^ Ormrod, W.M (2004-09), "Bohun, William de, first earl of Northampton (c.1312–
1360)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford: Oxford University Press, http:
//www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/2778, retrieved 2008-07-15
5. ^ Ormrod, W.M (1990). The Reign of Edward III. New Haven and London: Yale
University Press. pp. pp. 113–4. ISBN 0-300-04876-9.
6. ^ His year of death was not, as claimed in some sources, 1359: Castelli, Jorge
H. "De Vere Family". tudorplace.com. http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/VERE.htm.
Retrieved 2008-07-15. Based on The Complete Peerage, vol.X, p.222–224.
7. ^ Margaret's three husbands were, in order, Henry, Lord Beaumont (d. 1369), Sir
Nicholas Loveyn of Penshurst, Kent, (d. c. 1375), and John Devereux, Baron
Devereux (d. 1393); Tuck (2004).
8. ^ a b Brazil, Robert (2003). "EO7 - John de Vere, 7th Earl of Oxford (1313 - 1360)".
earlofoxford.com. http://www.earlofoxford.com/eo02.htm. Retrieved 2008-07-15.
9. ^ McKisack (1959), p. 256.
10. ^ A "John de Ispaynea" is recorded as part of his retinue in 1336: Ayton, Andrew
(1994). Knights and Warhorses. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. pp. p. 187. ISBN
0-85115-568-5.
11. ^ Caferro, William (2006). John Hawkwood: An English Mercenary in Fourteenth-
Century Italy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. pp. 39–42. ISBN
9780801883231.
12. ^ Prestwich, Michael (2007). Plantagenet England 1225–1360. Oxford: Oxford
University Press. pp. p. 330. ISBN 9780199226870.

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John DE VERE - 7th Earl of Oxford b: ABT 12 MAR 1311 - 12
Maud DE BADLESMERE
"JOHN de VERE, 7th EARL OF OXFORD; b c 12 March 1311/2; successfully claim
ed hereditary post of Master Chamberlain of England; campaigned against S cots
and French, notably at victories of Crécy 1340 and Poitiers 1356 ; m by 27 March
1336 Maud, widow of Robert FitzPayn and dau of Bartholome w de Badlesmere, 1st
Lord (Baron) Badlesmere, and d 23/24 Jan 1359/60 a t Siege of Rheims. 1
# Note: per Faris (1999) p. 16: of Magna Carta Surety descent and descendant o f
Charlemagne 3'

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Robert DE VERE 5th Earl of Oxford
Alice DE SANFORD
"Robert de Vere, 5th Earl of Oxford (c. 1240 – 1296) was the son and heir of Hugh
de Vere, 4th Earl of Oxford. Robert was born c. 1240. He was among the followers
of Simon de Montfort during the Second Barons' War, and was with Simon's son,
Hugh, when Edward I attacked Kenilworth Castle prior to the Battle of Evesham. de
Vere's title and property were forfeited, but restored shortly afterwords by the Dictum
of Kenilworth. When he died in 1296, he was succeeded by his son Robert de Vere,
6th Earl of Oxford."

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Robert DE VERE 5th Earl of Oxford
Alice DE SANFORD
born -
"ROBERT de VERE, 5th EARL OF OXFORD; b c 1240; hereditary Master
Chamberlain of England; ktd 1264 (by Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester (see LEI
CESTER, E, preliminary remarks) on the eve of the Battle of Lewes); as a supporter
of de Montfort's was taken unawares at Kenilworth 1 Aug 1265 and temporarily
deprived of the Earldom till the provisions of the Dictum of Kenilworth (which
among other things restored it to him) came int o force 1266; the Chamberlainship,
of which he had also been deprived, was not restored him though he appears to
have been permitted to perfom its duties at EDWARD I's coronation 1274; m Alice,
dau and heiress of Gilbert de Sanford, and by 7 Sept 1296 4 Occupation: Master
Chamberlain of England 4"

# Sources:

1. 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: pp. 219-220, de SANFORD 1:i
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. 254, de VERE of Oxford 6
3. 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 60-29, pp. 65-66
4. 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
5. 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: pp. 219-220, de SANFORD 1 i

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Hugh DE VERE 4th Earl of Oxford
Hawise DE QUINCY
"Castle Hedingham is a small village in north-east Essex, UK, located four miles
west of Halstead and is situated in the valley of the River Colne on the ancient road
from Colchester, Essex, to Cambridge.
It developed around Hedingham Castle, the ancestral seat of the de Veres, Earls of
Oxford. The first earl, Aubrey de Vere III, finished the initial building of the keep and
established a Benedictine nunnery near the castle gates. Hugh de Vere, fourth earl
of Oxford, purchased the right to hold a market in the town of the crown in the mid-
13th century. He also founded a hospital just outside the gates of the castle around
1250"

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Hugh DE VERE 4th Earl of Oxford
Hawise DE QUINCY
'Hugh de Vere, 4th Earl of Oxford (c. 1210–December, 1263) was the only child and
heir of Robert de Vere, 3rd Earl of Oxford, born circa 1208. When his father died in
1221, his mother Isabel de Bolebec paid for wardship of her son and heir. Hugh
did homage for his earldom in 1231. He was knighted around the same time.

He supposedly took part in the Seventh Crusade in 1248–1254. He purchased the
right to hold a market at the town on his primary estate, Castle Hedingham in
Essex, and founded a nunnery there as well. Hugh married Hawise de Quincy,
daughter of Saer de Quincy, 1st Earl of Winchester, and his wife, Margaret de
Beaumont. When he died in 1263, he was succeeded by his son Robert de Vere,
5th Earl of Oxford."

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Hugh DE VERE 4th Earl of Oxford
Hawise DE QUINCY
'Hugh de Vere, 4th Earl of Oxford (c. 1210–December, 1263) was the only child and
heir of Robert de Vere, 3rd Earl of Oxford, born circa 1208. When his father died in
1221, his mother Isabel de Bolebec paid for wardship of her son and heir. Hugh
did homage for his earldom in 1231. He was knighted around the same time.

He supposedly took part in the Seventh Crusade in 1248–1254. He purchased the
right to hold a market at the town on his primary estate, Castle Hedingham in
Essex, and founded a nunnery there as well. Hugh married Hawise de Quincy,
daughter of Saer de Quincy, 1st Earl of Winchester, and his wife, Margaret de
Beaumont. When he died in 1263, he was succeeded by his son Robert de Vere,
5th Earl of Oxford."

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Hugh DE VERE 4th Earl of Oxford
Hawise DE QUINCY
"per xxx: [quote] Weever ("Antient Funeral Monuments', 1767 edition, p 374 ) records
the memorial of Hugh de Vere, 4th Earl of Oxford, who was burie d at Earls Colne
Priory, Essex; the monument was moved to the neighborin g parish church when
the priory was dissolved.
He records its inscription as follows:
"Hic jacent Hugo de Veer, eius nominus primus, comes Oxonie quartus, mag nus
camerarius Anglie, filius et heres Roberti comitis, et Hawisus uxor e ius, filia Saeri
de Quinci, comitis Wintonie, qui quidem Hugo obiit 1263 . Quorum animabus
propitietur altissimus."
"Here lies Hugh de Vere, the first of his name, fourth Earl of Oxford, G reat
Chamberlain of England, son and heir of Earl Robert, and Hawise hi s wife,
daughter of Saer de Quency, Earl of Winchester, of whom the sai d Hugh died in
1263. On whose soul may the Most High have mercy."
MA-R [end quote] 4
Occupation: Herditary Master Chamberlain of England 1
Note: HUGH de VERE, 4th EARL OF OXFORD; b c 1210; hereditary Master
Chamberlai n of England; ktd 1233; m after 11 Feb 1222/3 Hawise, dau of Saher de
Qui ncey, 1st Earl of Winchester (see WINCHESTER, M, preliminary remarks), an d
d by 23 Dec 1263, having had, with three daus (Isabel, m John de Courte nay (see
DEVON, E) and had issue; Laura, m Reynold d'Argentine and d 1292 , leaving
issue; Margaret, m Hugh de Cressi): 5"

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 120-2, 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: pp. 253-254, de VERE of Oxford 5
3. 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
4. Title: Andrews-Reading email 11 March 2008: "Tomb of Hugh de Vere, 4th Earl of
O xford (d 1263)", Recipient: GEN-MEDIEVAL-L@rootsweb.com, Author E-mail: m
jcar@btinternet.com
Abbrev: Andrews-Reading email 11 March 2008
Author: Michael Andrews-Reading
Publication: 11 March 2008
5. 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
6. 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. 210, de QUINCY 3:i

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Robert DE VERE - 3rd Earl of Oxford
Isabel DE BOLBEC of Wraysbury
"Robert de Vere (died 1221) was the second surviving son of Aubrey de Vere III, first
earl of Oxford, and Agnes of Essex. Almost nothing of his life is known until he
married in 1207 the widow Isabel de Bolebec, the aunt and co-heiress of his
deceased sister-in-law. The couple had one child, a son, Hugh, later 4th earl of
Oxford. When Robert's brother Aubrey de Vere IV, 2nd earl of Oxford died in Oct.
1214, Robert succeeded to his brother's title, estates, castles, and hereditary office
of master chamberlain of England (later Lord Great Chamberlain). He swiftly joined
the disaffected barons in opposition to King John; many among the rebels were his
kinsmen. He was elected one of the twenty-five barons who were to ensure the
king's adherence to the terms of Magna Carta, and as such was excommunicated
by Pope Innocent III in 1215.

King John besieged and took Castle Hedingham, Essex, from Robert in March
1216 and gave his lands to a loyal baron. While this prompted Robert to swear
loyalty to the king soon thereafter, he nonetheless did homage to Prince Louis
when the French prince arrived in Rochester later that year. He remained in the
rebel camp until Oct. 1217, when he did homage to the boy-king Henry III, but he
was not fully restored in his offices and lands until Feb. 1218.[1]

At this time, aristocratic marriages were routinely contracted after negotiations over
dowry and dower. In most cases, dower lands were assigned from the estates
held by the groom at the time of the marriage. If specific dower lands were not
named, on the death of the husband the widow was entitled to one-third of his
estate. When Robert's brother Earl Aubrey married a second time, he did not name
a dower for his wife Alice, for Robert determined the division of his estate by having
lots drawn. For each manor his sister-in-law drew, he drew two. This is the sole
known case of assigning dower lands in this manner.

Robert served as a king's justice in 1220-21, and died in Oct. 1221. He was buried
at Hatfield Regis Priory, where his son Earl Hugh or grandson Earl Robert later had
an effigy erected. Earl Robert is depicted in chain mail, cross-legged, pulling his
sword from its scabbard and holding a shield with the arms of the Veres. [2]
[edit] Sources * G. E. Cokayne, Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland,
Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Page: X:210-3
1. ^ Cokayne, "Complete Peerage v. 10, 210-213
2. ^ "Royal Commission Historical Monuments" Essex, II, 119 & plate 122.

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Robert DE VERE - 3rd Earl of Oxford
Isabel DE BOLBEC of Wraysbury
'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 was
always referred to as Isabel or Isabella de Bolebec after her second marriage to
Robert de Vere in contemporary documents.
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, later 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.

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.
[edit] Dominican Order

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.
[edit] Notes

1. ^ Her niece bore the same first and surname, Isabel de Bolebec, and also
married a de Vere, Robert's brother Aubrey de Vere, 2nd earl of Oxford. That has led
to confusion and difficulty separating the two women. Isabel the younger had died
by 1207, and her aunts Isabel and Constance were her co-heirs."
Sources
* Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, "Isabel de Bolebec."
* Complete Peerage, "Robert De Vere, 3rd earl of Oxford", vol. X:210-3.
* Survey of the Antiquities of the city of Oxford...by Anthony Wood (Oxford Historical
Society, 1890)
* Magna Charta Sureties 1215 by Frederick Lewis Weis, Page: 120-1, 154-3
* Burke's Peerage & Baronetage by John Burke, Page: 2498"

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Aubrey III DE VERE - 1st Earl of Oxford and 1st Earl of Essex
Agnes of Essex
"Aubrey de Vere III (c. 1115-Dec. 1194) was created Earl of Oxford by the empress
Matilda in July 1141. He had inherited the barony of Hedingham on the death of his
father Aubrey de Vere II in May 1141, when he was already Count of Guînes by right
of his wife Beatrice. In July 1141 he was granted an earldom by the Empress
Matilda, and was confirmed as the first earl of Oxford by her son King Henry II of
England. On the annulment of his first marriage, between 1144-46, he lost Guînes.
Earl Aubrey was little involved in national political affairs after this period. His
attempt to divorce his third wife, Agnes of Essex, was a celebrated marriage case
that Agnes appealed successfully to Pope Alexander III. In 1153 he was present
with King Stephen's army at the siege of Wallingford and attested at the Treaty of
Wallingford, finally signed at Westminster. Two of his sons by Agnes, Aubrey IV and
Robert, became earls of Oxford. Robert, the third earl, was one of the 25 rebel
barons who were to hold King John to the terms of Magna Carta. He was buried at
the family mausoleum founded by his grandfather, Colne Priory, Essex.
Family The son of Aubrey de Vere II and Adeliza of Clare, earl Aubrey married three
times. His marriage to Beatrice, heiress of Guînes, in 1137 made him count of
Guînes by her right on the death of her grandfather but their marriage was annulled
1144-46. His second wife, Eufemia, died in 1153-4, leaving the earl still childless.
He and his third wife, Agnes of Essex, had five children, four sons and a daughter:
Aubrey, Roger, Robert, Henry, and Alice. The earl had eight siblings, outliving all but
his two youngest brothers and youngest sister.
Lands From his father he inherited estates in Essex, Cambridgeshire, Suffolk,
Northamptonshire, Huntingdonshire and Middlesex. These were traditionally
assessed at approximately 30 knights' fees.[1] References 1. ^ Red Book of the
Exchequer, vol. I, pp. 352-3"

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Agnes of Essex
"Agnes of Essex, countess of Oxford (c. 1151 – c. 1212) was the daughter of Henry
of Essex and his second wife. She was betrothed at age three to Geoffrey de Vere,
brother of the first earl of Oxford, and turned over to the Veres soon thereafter.
Agnes later rejected the match with Geoffrey and by 1163 had married his brother
Aubrey de Vere III, the earl (died 1194), as his third wife.

After her father's disgrace and forfeiture of lands and offices in that year, the earl
sought to have his marriage annulled. Agnes fought the action. On May 9, 1166,
she appealed her case from the court of the bishop of London to the pope (the
archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket, being in exile at the time). While the
case was pending in Rome, the earl kept Agnes confined in one of his three
castles, for which the bishop of London Gilbert Foliot reprimanded Aubrey. Pope
Alexander III ruled in her favor, thus establishing the right and requirement of
consent by females in betrothal and the sacrament of marriage.

The couple may have co-operated in the founding of a Benedictine nunnery near
their castle at Castle Hedingham, Essex. Countess Agnes survived her husband
and paid the crown for the right to remain unmarried in 1198. She died sometime in
or after 1212 and was buried in the Vere mausoleum, Colne Priory, Essex.

Many have followed the mistake of antiquarians in believing the third wife of earl
Aubrey to have been named Lucia. A woman of this name was prioress at Castle
Hedingham Priory. On Lucia's death, a mortuary or roll was carried to many
religious houses in the region requesting prayers, and in the preface of that
document Lucia is called the foundress of the priory. As the countess presumably
cooperated with her husband in the founding of the house, the erroneous
assumption was made that the prioress was in fact the earl's widow.[1]
[edit] Children

Agnes bore her husband four sons and a daughter, including two future earls of
Oxford: Aubrey IV and Robert I. Her daughter Alice married 1) Ernulf de Kemesech,
2) John, constable of Chester. Their son Henry may have become chancellor of
Hereford Cathedral in the bishopric of his uncle, William de Vere, and later a royal
clerk under King John of England.[2]
[edit] References

1. ^ RaGena DeAragon. "The Child-Bride, the Earl, and the Pope: The Marital
Fortunes of Agnes of Essex" in Henry I and the Anglo-Norman World, 2007 Boydell
& Brewer.
2. ^ G. E. Cockayne, Complete Peerage, vol. 10"

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Agnes of Essex
"AUBREY de VERE, 1st EARL OF OXFORD (E), so cr 1142 by the EMPRESS
MATILD A (see also OXFORD AND ASQUITH, E, preliminary remarks) and
recognised a s such by STEPHEN c 1152-53; b probably c 1110; Master
Chamberlain of Eng land, as which s f; m 1st c 1139 (divorce by 1146) Beatrice,
gdau of Mana sses, Count of Guisnes, Northern France, whom he s in that fief late
113 9 on doing homage to his overlord Thierry, Count of Flanders (though he w as
obliged to surrender it on his divorce); m 2nd by 1152 Eufeme (dspm (c ertainly and
dsp probably) 1153 or 1154), dau of William de Cauntelo; m 3 rd 1162 or 1163
Agnes, dau of Henry de Essex, feudal Ld of Rayleigh and H aughley, and d 26 Dec
1194 5
Occupation: 1st Earl of Essex 6
Occupation: Master Chamberlain of England 5
Note:

Agnes of Essex -
Birth:ca 1152[5]
Death:aft 26 Dec 1194[5]
Burial:Colne priory, Essex[5]

3rd wife of Aubrey de Vere[5]

her maritagium included land in Stoke (CP Vol X, Oxford - p. 207n)[5]

possibly also had 5 knights' fees in Haughley, Essex as her maritagium:
'She was holding 5 fees of the honour of Haughley in 1206 in her widowho od,
possibly representing her marriage portion (which had probably been a rranged
before her father's downfall). As the Haughley barony consisted o f 50 knights' fees
and the Rayleigh barony had consisted of about 48-58 , [Sanders 120, 139], this is
a very small proportion of the total. Mos t of it remained in the king's hands after
confiscation, although in 120 5 Gilbert Stanford (Sanford?) answered for 13 fees "a
sixth part" of th e honor of Henry de Essex and four and a half fees of the honour of
Haug hley [Red Book of the Exchequer, p.748].'[9]

Spouse:Aubrey de Vere[10], (1st) Earl of Oxford
Death:26 Dec 1194[11]
Birth:ca 1110[5]
Father:Aubrey de Vere (<1090-1141) Mother:Adeliza de Clare (-ca1163) Marr:ca 1162[11] Children:Aubrey (-<1214) Ralph (-<1214) Robert (>1164-<1221) Henry (-<1221) Cecily Sources: 5. G. E. Cokayne, "The Complete Peerage," The Complete Peerage of Engl and Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom. 9. Rosie Bevan, "Re: Essex/Valognes/Fitz John," Apr 18, 2003, GEN-MEDIE VAL- L@rootsweb.com, cites Sanders 120, 139 and Red Book of the Exchequer , p.748 re: Agnes fitz John and the Valoins family, as well as PRO E 40/3 699 and PRO E 40/3958 concerning Gunnora de Essex, 'neptis' of Agnes fit z John. 10. Stewart Baldwin, "Oldest Female Line?," Nov 20, 1996, GEN-MEDIEVAL- L@rootsweb.com. 11. Frederick L. Weis, Th. D., "The Magna Carta Sureties, 1215," Baltimo re: Gen Pub Co., 5th ed., 1997 (W. L. Sheppard Jr & David Faris). 2" Sources: 1. 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: pp. 252-253, de VERE of Oxford 3 2. 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 3. 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 246-26, p. 208 4. 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 154-2, p. 187 5. 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 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 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=I10613 Updated: 2009-09-19 21:45:34 UTC (Sat) Contact: Gregory Saturday, December 26, 2009 30 Aubrey II DE VERE - Sheriff of London and Middlesex Alice (Adeliza) Fitz Gilbert DE CLARE "Aubrey de Vere II (c. 1080-1141) was also known as "Alberic[us] de Ver". He was the second of that name in post Norman Conquest England, being the eldest surviving son of Alberic or Aubrey de Vere who had followed William the Conqueror to England in or after 1066. Their lineage is probably Norman, possibly originally from the eponymous town of Ver/Vire in western Normandy, and were [erroneously] said to descend from Charlemagne himself through the Counts of Flanders or Guînes by later antiquarians. In fact, their connection with Guînes, in Flanders, was temporary; Aubrey de Vere III was briefly married to Beatrice, heiress to that county, from 1137 to about 1145. Aubrey II served as sheriff of many shires and as a Justiciar under kings Henry I and Stephen.[1] King Henry I had declared the estates and office of the first master chamberlain, Robert Malet, to be forfeit, and in 1133 awarded the office of master chamberlain of England to Aubrey. The chronicler William of Malmesbury reports that Aubrey represented King Stephen in 1139, when the king had been summoned to a church council to answer for the seizure of castles held by Roger, Bishop of Salisbury. He was killed by a London mob in May, 1141, and buried in the family mausoleum, Colne Priory, Essex. His eldest son Aubrey de Vere III, was later created Earl of Oxford, and their descendants were to hold that title and the office that came to be known as the Lord Great Chamberlain until the extinction of the male line in 1703.[2] Aubrey II married Adeliza/Alice, daughter of Gilbert Fitz Richard of Clare. Their known children: Aubrey de Vere, 1st Earl of Oxford; Rohese de Vere, Countess of Essex, Robert; Alice "of Essex;" Geoffrey; Juliana, Countess of Norfolk; William de Vere, Bishop of Hereford; Gilbert, prior of the Knights Hospitaller in England; and an unnamed daughter who married Roger de Ramis. [edit] References 1. ^ Davis, et al.: "Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum". Oxford University Press, 1913-68: v. 2. 2. ^ Cokayne, George: "The Complete Peerage", v. 10. St. Catherine Press, 1910- 58" Aubrey de Vere II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey_de_Vere_II Saturday, December 26, 2009 30 Aubrey II DE VERE - Sheriff of London and Middlesex Alice (Adeliza) Fitz Gilbert DE CLARE "Occupation: Sheriff of London and Middlesex BET 1121 AND 1125 5 6 Burial: Colne Piory, Essex, England 1 Note: GAV-24 EDV-24 GKJ-23 Note: ALBERIC de VERE; b probably by 1090; described as King's Chamberlain by 1 112; Sheriff London and Middx 1121 or 1122, Jt Sheriff 1125, often Sherif f Essex, Jt Sheriff Beds, Bucks, Cambs, Hunts, Norfolk, Suffolk and Surre y 1129 and Essex, Herts, Leics and Northants 1130; Master Chamberlain o f England 1133; possibly Ch Justiciar of England 1139; m Alice, dau of Gi lbert FitzRichard, Lord of Clare and Tunbridge, and sis of Gilbert, 1st E arl of Pembroke (see PEMBROKE and MONTGOMERY, E, preliminary remarks), an d was k in a riot in London 15 May 1141, having had, with three yr sons ( Robert, feudal Ld of Twywell, Northants; Geoffrey; William, Chllr of Engl and) and three daus (Adeliza, m Henry de Essex; Juliana, m Hugh Bigod, Ea rl of Norfolk (see NORFOLK, D, preliminary remarks); Rohesia, m 1st Geoff rey de Mandeville, Earl of Essex (d 14 Sept 1144), and had issue, m 2nd P ayne Beauchamp, of Bedford) 2 Occupation: Justice and Master Chamberlain" Sources: 1. 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: pp. 251-252, de VERE of Oxford 2 2. 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 3. 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 246D-25, p. 214 4. 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 246-25, p. 208 5. 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 154-1, p. 186 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 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=I10619 Updated: 2009-09-19 21:45:34 UTC (Sat) Contact: Gregory Saturday, December 26, 2009 31 Aubrey I DE VERE Beatrice of Ghent "per van de Pas: "While it is generally agreed that Aubrey derived his sur name from Ver in the Côtentin, it is certain that he was not the Seigneu r of Ver, for neither he nor his sons appear as holding land there, or in deed anywhere in Normandy. Aubrey and his wife Béatrice had five sons. Th e eldest, Geoffrey, was cured of a serious illness by Abbot Farice, but s uccumbed to a second illness, after instigating the gift of Kensington ch urch to Abingdon. Their other sons were Aubrey, Roger, Robert and William . Aubrey and Béatrice may also have had a daughter." 5 # Note: ALBERIC/AUBREY de VER (a place in the Côtentin Peninsula, Normandy), prob ably himself a Norman; b by 1040; by the Domesday Survey held numerous ma nors, chiefly in Cambs, Essex and Suffolk, Hedingham, Essex, being the ch ief one, but also in Hunts, Middx (including Cheniston, now Kensington) a nd Northants; references to him as Chamberlain occur c 1110; founded Earl 's Colne Priory, Essex, where he and many of his descendants are buried ; Sheriff Berks by 1106; m Beatrice - and d probably 1112, having had, wi th an est s (dvp 1106) and four yst sons (Geoffrey; Roger; Robert; Willia m) 3 Note: van de Pas cites: The Complete Peerage, 1936 , Doubleday, H.A. & Lord Ho ward de Walden, Reference: X 193 ; biographical details volume X Appendi x J 5" Sources: 1. 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: pp. 250-251, de VERE of Oxford 1: "The surname of this family was derive d no doubt from Ver on the Côtentin, described in Cokayne's Complete Peer age [10: J:110] as "now dep. Manche, arr. Coutances, cant. Cavray." Howev er, no specific connection between Aubrey de Vere I and the estate in Fra nce has been found." 2. Title: Ferris database on RootsWeb WorldConnect at http://worldconnect. rootsweb. com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=bferris, Url: http://worldconnect.rootsweb. com/cgi -bin/igm.cgi?db=bferris Abbrev: Ferris database WorldConnect Author: William R. Ferris, Jr., Compiler: wrferris@yahoo.com Publication: updated 4 Apr 2002 Page: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi? op=GET&db=bferris&id=I20 89 3. 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 4. 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: pp. 250-251, de VERE of Oxford 1 5. Title: Leo van de Pas Web Site "Leo's Genealogics Website", Url: http://www. gene alogics.org/index.php Abbrev: Leo's Genealogics Website Page: Aubrey de Vere: http://www.genealogics.org/getperson.php? personID=I00109 436&tree=LEO 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=I15928 Updated: 2009-09-19 21:45:34 UTC (Sat) Contact: Gregory Saturday, December 26, 2009 31 Aubrey I DE VERE Beatrice of Ghent "Aubrey (Albericus) de Vere (died circa 1112) was a tenant-in-chief of William the Conqueror in 1086 and also vassal to Geoffrey de Montbray, bishop of Coutances and to Count Alan, lord of Richmond. A much later source named his father as Alphonsus.[1] The common use of the name Albericus by the Veres in medieval England makes it impossible to say for certain if the Aubrey de Vere named in Domesday Book in 1086 holding estates in six counties is the same Aubrey de Vere who around 1111 founded Colne Priory, Essex, but it is probable. His origins are obscure and various regions have been proposed for his birthplace. Their lineage is probably Norman, possibly originally from the eponymous town of Ver/Vire in western Normandy, and the Veres were (erroneously) said to descend from Charlemagne through the Counts of Flanders or Guînes by later antiquarians. In fact, their connection with Guînes, in Flanders, was temporary; his grandson Aubrey de Vere III was briefly married to Beatrice, heiress to Guînes. The only certainty is his landholding recorded in Domesday Book, where he and his unnamed wife also stand accused of some unauthorized land seizures.[2] As his spouse's name is recorded as Beatrice in 1104, she may have been his wife in 1086 and the mother of his five known sons.[3] Aubrey's estates held of the king were valued at approximately £300, putting him in roughly the middle ranks of the post-conquest barons in terms of landed wealth.[4] More difficult to sort out are contemporary references to "Aubrey the chamberlain" and "Aubrey of Berkshire." An Aubrey was chamberlain to Queen Matilda, wife of William the Conqueror, but it is unlikely that this was Aubrey de Vere. An "Aubrey of Berkshire" was a sheriff in the early reign of Henry I; it cannot be ruled out that this was Aubrey de Vere. Aubrey de Vere I may also have served that king as a royal chamberlain, as his son and namesake Aubrey de Vere II did. Before 1104, Aubrey's eldest son Geoffrey fell ill and was tended at Abingdon Abbey by the royal physician, Abbot Faritius. The youth recovered but suffered a relapse and was buried at the abbey. His parents founded a cell of Abingdon on land they donated: Colne Priory, Essex. Within a few years, Aubrey and his son William joined that community. Aubrey died soon after taking the Benedictine habit, William passing away not long after his father. Both were buried at the priory, establishing it as the Vere family mausoleum.[5] His heir was Aubrey de Vere II. Besides Geoffrey, Aubrey II, and William mentioned above, his sons included Roger and Robert.[6] [edit] Estates The principle estates held by Aubrey de Vere in 1086: Beauchamp [Walter], Great Bentley, Great Canfield, Castle Hedingham, Earls Colne, [White] Colne, Dovercourt, and Stevington, Essex; Aldham, Belstead, Lavenham, and Waldingfield, Suffolk; Castle Camps, Hildersham, Silverley, and Wilbraham, Cambridgeshire. He possessed houses and acreage in Colchester. As tenant of the bishop of Coutances, he held Kensington, Middlesex; Scaldwell and Wadenhoe, Northamptonshire. Of the barony of Count Alan his manors were Beauchamp Roding, Canfield, and West Wickham, Essex. His wife held at Aldham, Essex, in her own right of Odo bishop of Bayeux. She was accused by Domesday jurors of expansion into Little Maplestead, Essex. Aubrey's seizures or questionable right of possession to estates included Manuden, Essex; Great Hemingford, Huntingdonshire; and Swaffham, Cambridgeshire. (Counties given are those of Domesday Book.) [edit] References 1. ^ BM Cott. Vesp. B 15, f. 61, from a supposed inscription on his tomb 2. ^ Domesday Book 3. ^ Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum II, p. 100, no. 981 4. ^ Corbett, Cambridge History of the Middle Ages 5. ^ History of the Church of Abingdon, pp. 90-91 6. ^ Cockayne, Complete Peerage vol. 10, p. 194" Aubrey de Vere I - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey_de_Vere_I Sunday, December 20, 2009 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=I15928 Updated: 2009-09-19 21:45:34 UTC (Sat) Contact: Gregory Saturday, December 26, 2009 "Colne Priory, Earls Colne, Essex This Benedictine priory, initially a dependent cell of Abingdon Abbey, Berkshire (modern Oxfordshire), was founded by Aubrey de Vere I and his wife Beatrice in or before 1111. Their eldest son Geoffrey had died at Abingdon about seven or eight years earlier and was buried there. On his deathbed, Geoffrey had bequeathed to Abingdon the church and lands at Kensington, Middlesex, and his parents and brothers had confirmed that grant, as had King Henry I. Aubrey and Beatrice became very attached to Abingdon, but as they lived primarily in Essex, the aging couple found it difficult to journey there. They founded Colne Priory, the only cell of Abingdon, in order to have monks of that house close to them and as a family mausoleum. About 1112 Aubrey I retired to the priory, joined by his youngest son, William de Vere, both of whom died there shortly thereafter. Colne Priory became the principle burial place of the earls of Oxford, with all but a few buried there to 1703. It was given to John de Vere, 14th earl of Oxford, after the Dissolution of the Monasteries. The surviving tombs, some with effigies, from Colne were much later removed to the parish church of Bures, Essex, where they are currently. A late twelfth-century cartulary exists. The relations between Abingdon and its priory were occasionally rocky, and in the thirteenth century Colne Priory became an independent priory. [edit] References G. E. C. Cockayne, Monasticon Anglicanum, IV, 95-99. Victoria County History, Essex II, 102-5" Colne Priory, Essex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colne_Priory,_Essex Saturday, December 26, 2009 24 John DE VERE - 7th Earl of Oxford Maud DE BADLESMERE "John de Vere, 7th Earl of Oxford; successfully claimed hereditary post of Master Chamberlain of England; campaigned against Scots and French, notable at vicotries of Crecy 1340 and Poitiers 1356; married by 27 March 1336 Maud, widow of Robert FitzPayn and daughter of Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Lord (Baron) Badlesmere, and died 23/24 Jan 1359/60 at Siege of Rheims. [Burke's Peerage] ---------------------- The 7th Earl played an important part in the early stages of the Hundred Years War, being a joint commander of the 1st division at both Crecy (1346) and Poitiers (1356). At the latter it was his adroit management of the archers that helped secure victory. [Burke's Peerage, Earldom of Oxford, p. 2178] ---------------------- JOHN (DE VERE), EARL OF OXFORD, nephew and heir, being only son of Alfonso de VERE, 3rd son of the 5th Earl, was born about 12 March 1311/2. His marriage was sold on 26 January 1328/9 to the Bishop of Lincoln, and the custody of his lands was committed in February to Thomas de Weston. He did homage, and had a writ for livery of the castles, manors, &c., of the late EarL, 17 May 1331. He renewed the claim made by his uncle to the office of "Chief Chamberlain" of the Kings of England, and eventually he recovered it. In the spring of 1332 he set out on a pilgrimage to Compostella. In July 1333 he was one of the gmacrantors of Edward's terms at the surrender of Berwick, and he served again in Scotland in 1335. He was a commissioner of array in nine counties in 1338; and in 1339 and 1340 one of the Keepers of the coast of Essex. Early in November 1339 he put to sea with three great ships in the King's service. On 30 March 1340 he was proceeding overseas with the Earl of Warwick to the campaign in Flanders. In 1342 he attended the royal tournament at Dunstable, and served in Brittany. He took part in 1343 in the expedition for the relief of Lochmaben Castle. In 1344 he was a trier of petitions in Parliament, and with other magnates begged the King to end the war, either by battle or by a suitable peace. By mid-June 1345 he sailed to take joint command with the Earl of Northampton in the 2nd campaign in Brittany, where, On 30 September, they defeated a much larger force under Charles of Blois. He sailed with the King in July 1346, was one of the commanders of the 1st division at Crécy, and took part in the siege of Calais. In 1355 he sailed for Bordeaux with Prince Edward, and commanded the 2nd division in the raid through Languedoc. He was in joint command of the 1st division at the battle of Poitiers, 19 September 1356, where his skilful handling of the archers contributed to the victory. In the following summer the Earl was at Bordeaux. He was summoned on 10 October 1359 to attend a Council at Westminster on 11 November, and later joined the King at the front. He married, before 27 March 1336, Maud, widow of Robert FITZPAYN (died 1322), son and heir apparent of Robert, 2nd LORD FITZPAYN, being sister and (later) coheir of Giles (DE BADLESMERE), 2nd LORD BADLESMERE, and 2nd daughter of Bartholomew (DE BADLESMERE), 1st LORD BADLESMERE, by Margaret, elder daughter of Thomas DE CLARE, Lord of Inchiquin and Youghal. The Earl died at the siege of Rheims, 23 or 24 January 1359/60, and was buried at Colne Priory. His widow, who was born circa 1308, had assignment of dower, &c., in February. She died probably 24 May 1366, at Earls Colne, and was buried there. [Complete Peerage X:222-4] Note.-The Barony of Badlesmere was assumed by John (de Vere), 7th Earl of Oxford in right of his wife, who (though she was not the eldest of the sisters and coheirs of the last Lord) had succeeded to the Lordship of Badlesmere, Kent. The succeeding Earls likewise assumed the style of Lords Badlesmerc, and that, too, even after the death of John, the 14th Earl, in 1526, s.p.m., on whose sisters and coheirs the representation of any Barony in fee which might have been vested in the issue of the 7th Earl would (according to the now received law in Peerage descent) have devolved. This their assumptlon was on the principle (then generally believed) that when a Barony once became united with an Earldom it continued attendant thereon. At length oil the death s.p. of Henry, the 18th Earl, in 1625, when this Barony together with other honours was claimed by Robert de Vere, his cousin and heir male, the House, on 5 April 1626 (without enquiring into the origin or nature of these dignities, or even into the fact of their actual existence in the person of the said John, the 14th Earl), resolved that the Baronies of Bolebec, Sandford and Badlesmere were in abeyance between the heirs general. of the said John, Earl of Oxford. But in the Lords' Reports (3rd) it is added that the Commiteee apprehend that if enquiry had been made "it would have appeared that the Barony of Badlesmere had been in abeyance between four coheirs, one of whom married John, then Earl of Oxford; and unless the Crown had done some act, calling the dignity out of abeyance in favour of some Earl of Oxford, of which the Committee have not found any trace, that 'dignity was never vested in any Earl of Oxford, and must have remained in abeyance between the four coheirs of Giles de Badlesmere and not between the coheirs of John, Earl of Oxford." Notwithstanding this decision, Aubrey (de Vere), Earl of Oxford, in the Court of Claims for the Coronation of Charles II, in 1661, styled himself "Seigneur Bolebeck Stanford [i.e. Sandford] Badlesmere et Scales"; while, by writ of Privy Seal, 8 June 1588, Queen Elizabeth granted Earls Colne Priory to "Edwardo de Veere Comiti Oxon Vicecomiti Bulbeck Domino de Badlesmere et de Scales." See note sub BEDFORD Barony and note sub BOLEBEC. [CP 1:373-4]" RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project: Celtic Royal Genealogy: Updated: 2009-12-14 19:15:41 UTC (Mon) Contact: Arthur E Turner-Thomas http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=aet-t&id=I9070 Saturday, December 26, 2009 26 Robert DE VERE 5th Earl of Oxford Alice DE SANFORD "5th Earl of Oxford. Also the Duke of Ireland. Allied with Simon de Montfort in London, May 1264. Knighted by Simon de Montfort on the eve of the Battle of Lewes. Formally renounced his allegiance to Henry III on the eve of the battle. With Gilbert Clare of Gloucester, had the most to lose of Montfort's supporters. Taken prisoner by Prince Edward at Kenilworth. Edward attacked a force led by Bran de Montfort & overwhelmed them. Sources conflict on who was Roberts wife. The Complete Peerage says it was Alice de Sanford who was the mother of Joan. That is a reliable source. Robert de Vere, 5th Earl of Oxford; hereditary Master Chamberlain of England; knighted 1264 (by Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester on the eve of the Battle of Lewes); as a supporter of de Montfort's was taken unawares at Kenilworth 1 Aug 1265 and temporarily deprived of the Earldom till the provisions of the Dictum of Kenilworth (which amont other things restored it to him) cam into force 1266; the Chamberlainship, of which he had also been deprived, was not restored him though he appears to have been permitted to perform its duties at Edward I's coronation 1274; married Alice, daughter and heiress of Gilbert de Sanford, and died by 7 Sep 1296. [Burke's Peerage] ------------------- Robert de Vere, 5th Earl of Oxford and 6th Great Chamberlain, having arrayed himself under the banner of Montfort, Earl of Leicester, was amongst those who were surprised with young Hugh de Montfort at Kenilworth a few days before the battle of Evesham and taken prisoner, but he made his peace soon after under the "Dictum of Kenilworth," and we find him employed by King Edward I against the Welsh in the 14th of that monarch's reign [1286]. His lordship m. Alice, dau. and heiress of Gilbert de Saundford, chamberlain in fee to Eleanor, Queen of Henry III, and had, with other issue, Robert, Alphonsus, Hugh, Lord Vere, Joan, and Lora. The earl d. in 1296, and was s. by hiis eldest son, Robert de Vere, 6th Earl of Oxford and 7th Great Chamberlain. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, London, 1883, p. 550, Vere, Earls of Oxford, &c. ------------------ ROBERT (DE VERE), EARL OF OXFORD, Hereditary Master Chamberlain of England, son and heir, born circa 1240, did homage 5 March 1263/4. He joined Simon de Montfort and was knighted by him before the battle of Lewes, 14 May 1264. In June he attested Simon's ordinance for the peace of the realm, and in December 1264 he was summoned to Simon's Parliament. On 16 February 1264/5 he was forbidden, with other magnates, to tourney at Dunstable or elsewhere. In 1265 he assisted the younger Simon de Montfort in plundering Winchester, and was captured when they were surprised at Kenilworth on 1 August. On 27 October 1265 the King granted the comitatus and honor of Oxford to Roger de Mortimer, but Robert recovered them under the Dictum de Kenilworth, and in March 1267/8 he made an agreement with Roger for payment for the return of his lands and for the marriage of his eldest son to Roger's daughter Margaret. He did not recover the Chamberlainship, but there is some reason to believe that he was allowed to execute the office at the Coronation of Edward I in 1274. On 12 November 1276 he was present at the Council concerning Llewelyn; and he was summoned to serve against the Welsh in 1277, 1282, and 1283, and to the Parliaments held in 1283, 1295 and 1296. In 1290 Robert attended the marriage of the Princess Margaret to John of Brabant, with a retinue of 12 knights, sumptuously arrayed. In 1292 he was at Berwick, taking part in the proceedings to decide the question of the Scottish succession. The Earl was a benefactor to the Knights Hospitallers, Hatfield Priory, and Thremhall Priory. He married Alice, daughter and heir of Gilbert DE SANFORD, hereditary Chamberlain to the Queen for her Coronation, by Lorette, daughter of (------). Robert died before 7 September 1296, and was buried at Earls Colne, his heart being buried in the Grey Friars, Ipswich. Alice, who survived him, died before 9 (probably 7) September 1312, at Canfield, and was buried at Earls Colne. [Complete Peerage X:216-8]" RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project: Celtic Royal Genealogy: Updated: 2009-12-14 19:15:41 UTC (Mon) Contact: Arthur E Turner-Thomas http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=aet-t&id=I5453 Saturday, December 26, 2009 27 Hugh DE VERE 4th Earl of Oxford Hawise DE QUINCY "Hugh de Vere, 4th Earl of Oxford; hereditary Master Chamberlain of England; knighted 1233; married after 11 Feb 1222/3 Hawise, daughter of Saher de Quincey, 1st Earl of Winchester, and died by 23 Dec 1263. [Burke's Peerage} _____________ HUGH (DE VERE), EARL OF OXFORD, Hereditary Master Chamberlain of England, son and heir, born circa 1210, was in his mother's custody until 1231, when he did homage on 23 October. On 22 November 1232 he was given respite until Pentecost from being knighted; and on 22 May 1233 he was knighted by the King at Gloucester. On 24 May Henry girt him with the sword of the Earldom of Oxford and directed the sheriff to let him have what he ought to have in the name of the Earldom of Oxford as his predecessors had had. On 21 February 1233/4 he obtained royal letters to his knights and free tenants for an aid to pay his debts. On 2 September 1234. he was one of the nobles forbidden to go to a tournament. At the Coronation of Queen Eleanor in 1236 he officiated as Master Chamberlain of England and as such performed the office of the Ewery. On 12 February 1236/7 Hugh and his mother were granted protection while on pilgrimage beyond the seas. In 1244 the Abbey of Ramsey chose him as one of its 4 knights summoned to Newcastle for service against Scotland, but Hugh sent William de Hulecote in his stead. In February 1245 he did homage for his mother's lands, and in September he was with the King in Cymru. In 1246 he was one of the Barons who protested to the Pope against the oppression of the realm; and in 1248 he was in the Parliament held in London. On 24 June 1249 he bought from the Bishop of London the wardship of the land with the marriage of Alice de Sanford, for his son and heir. On 13 May 1253 he was present in Westminster Hall at the excommunication of persons violating the provisions of Magna Carta. In 1258 he was elected by the Barons as one of the Committee of 24, and in October 1259 he was elected to fill a vacancy in the Committee of Twelve which was to treat with the Council. He was summoned to serve with the arrny against Llewelyn in 1260 and 1263. He had various grants of weekly markets and yearly fairs. He founded a hospital at Castle Hedingham circa 1250, and was a benefactor to Colchester Abbey and Hatfield Priory. He married, after 11 February 1222/3, Hawise, da. of Saher (DE QUINCY), 1st EARL OF WINCHESTER, by Margaret, younger sister and coheir of Robert (FITZPERNEL), 4th EARL OF LEICESTFR. He died before 23 December 1263, and was buried at Earls Colnel. His wife survived him, died 3 February (year unknown), and was buried at Earls Colne. [Complere Peerage X:213-15] _____________ Hugh de Vere, 4th Earl of Oxford and 5th Great Chamberlain. In the 17th King Henry III [1233], he was knighted at Gloucester, the King at that time solemnizing the feast of Pentecost there. In 1245 his lordship's mother died, and he then, upon giving security for payment of his relief, namely the sum of £100, and doing homage, had livery of the lands of her inheritance. In the 30th Henry III, he was one of the subscribing barons to the letter transmitted to the Pope complaining of the exactions of his holiness upon this realm, and he sat in the parliament 32nd Henry III, wherein the king was upbraided with his prodigal expenditure, and informed that neither his treasurer not chancellor had the confidence of their lordships. The earl m. Hawise, dau. of Sayer de Quincy, Earl of Winchester, and d. in 1263, having had issue, Robert, his heir; Aubrey; Richard; Margaret, m. Hugh de Cressi; Maud; and Isabel, m. to John de Courtenay. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, London, 1883, p. 550, Vere, Earls of Oxford, &c.]" RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project: Celtic Royal Genealogy: Updated: 2009-12-14 19:15:41 UTC (Mon) Contact: Arthur E Turner-Thomas http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=aet-t&id=I11785 Saturday, December 26, 2009 28 Robert DE VERE - 3rd Earl of Oxford Isabel DE BOLBEC of Wraysbury "A portion of the information concerning Surety Baron ROBERT de VERE is as follows: The principal residence of the de VERES was Castle Headingham. The keep still stands sentry gmacrd over the River Colne in the North of Essex, probably erected by Aubrey de Vere, who died in 1194. The Headingham keep ranks with that of Rochester as the finest of the square keeps in England. Oxford Castle was the seat of the Earls de Vere. It now consists of little more than a Norman tower which stands inside the walls of a county jail. It was here that King Stephen laid siege to Matilda in 1141. She escaped by a rope ladder fashioned from bed sheets during the night and, fleeing, found refuge at Wallingford. Oxford Castle is thought to be the oldest in all England. The Norman structure was built in 1071 by Robert d'Oilly. From what is left of it we can conclude that it was originally a pre-Norman motte and bailey fort. After the 1071 rebuilding, alterations were made by Henry II, between 1165 and 1173. He added the houses inside the shell keep, and also the well. He presumably built the diagonal keep on the motte, the foundations of which were discovered in the 18th Century. ROBERT de VERE, the Surety, born after 1164, became heir to his brother, Aubrey de Vere, who died without issue before September of 1214, and who was reputed to be one of the "evil councillors" of King John. Although he was hereditary lord great Chamberlain of the kingdom, Robert pursued a different course in politics from that of his brother, and became one of the principal Barons in arms against King John, a party to that covenant which resigned the custody of the City and Tower of London to the Barons, and one of those excommunicated by the Pope. In the beginning of the reign of King Henry III, after he had made his peace with that young monarch following the Battle of Lincoln, Robert was received into his favor, and was appointed one of the judges in the Court of King's Bench, but he died only a few months afterward, 25~ October 1221, and was buried in the Priory of Hatfield, Broad Oak, in Essex. His wife was Isabel, who died 3 February 124S, daughter of Hugh, second Baron de Bolebec in Northumberland. [National Society Magna Charta Dames and Barons; www.magnacharta.org] .............................. Robert de Vere [3rd son, eldest was Aubrey, 2nd Earl of Oxford, dspl by Oct 1214, 2nd son was Ralph, dvf], 3rd Earl of Oxford; hereditary Master Chamberlain of England, one of the magnates appointed to enforce King John's observance of Magna Charta; Justice Itinerant 1220 and Justice in King's Court of Westminster 1221; married Isabel (died 3 Feb 1245), sister of Walter de Bolebec and aunt of his [Robert de Vere's] elder brother's [Aubrey, 2nd Earl of Oxford's] 1st wife, and died by 25 Oct 1221. [Burke's Peerage] ----------------------- The 3rd de Vere Earl was one of the barons opposed to King John at Runymede in 1215 at the time of the granting of Magna Carta. His position on that occasion is a good example of the different meaning the term baron had at that time (ie. magnate or tenant in chief of the Crown) from what it does today, viz. holder of a specific degree of lordship of Parliament. De Vere's title of Earl was a real one but it was not a lordship of Parliament, for Parliament did not yet exist. Nor did de Vere have a subsidiary barony or viscountcy title in the way that earls now tend to. [Burke's Peerage, Earldom of Oxford, p. 2178] ________________________________ ROBERT (DE VERE), EARL OF OXFORD, Hereditary Master Chamberlain of England, brother and heir, being 3rd but eldest surviving son of the 1st Earl, by 3rd wife, born probably after 1164. He attested 4 of his father's charters and 3 other charters for Colne Priory. He appears to have had land at Bumpstead Helion, Essex, and in or shortly after 1208 he acquired one moiety of the BoIebec barony by marrying the aunt of his eldest brother's late wife. In 1214 he attested the King's letter promising freedom of election to sees and abbeys. After Aubrey's death he had seisin of his lands and the castles of Hedingham and Canfield in October 1214. Next year he was one of the Barons who met at Stamford and who forced John to grant Magna Carta at Runnymede, and was one of the 25 elected as its guardians. On 23 June 1215 the King issued a writ from Runnymede to the sheriff of Oxfordshire directing him to let Robert have the 3rd penny in accordance with his charter. With the other baronial leaders he was excommunicated by the Pope, and he joined them in inviting Louis of France to England. He was in arms against the King; but in March 1216, after John had taken Hedingham Castle, Robert went to him there and swore that in future he would serve him loyally. However, later in the year, Oxford went over to Louis and was among the Barons who did homage to him at Rochester. In 1217 Louis took Hedingham Castle and restored it to Robert, but in October 1217 Robert returned to his allegiance. On 18 February 1218/9 the sheriff of Oxfordshire was ordered to let him have as Earl of Oxford what his ancestors had had. He was a justice itinerant in 1220 and a justice in the King's Court at Westminster in 1221. The Earl was a benefactor to Oseney Abbey and Tilty Abbey. He married Isabel, daughter of Hugh and sister of Walter DE BOLEBEC, coheir to her niece Isabel, Countess of Oxford, and widow of Henry DE NONANT. He died before 25 October 1221, and was buried at Hatfield Priory. His wife survived him and died 3 February 1245, being buried in the church of the preaching friars at Oxford, which she had founded. [Complete Peerage X:210-13] ______________________ Supplement to Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists by Frederick Lewis Weis M.C. b. prob. before 1164, d. before 25 Oct 1221, Magna Charta Surety, 1215; m. Isabel, d. 3 Feb 1245, dau of Hugh II de Bolbec (son of Walter I). and widow of Henry de Nonant. (CP X 210-216, cf. 213 note b; Philip Morant, Hist of Essex, 1768, II 159, 179-182). Robert de Vere, 3rd Earl of Oxford and Lord Chamberlain of England, was born before 1120 pursued a different course than his brother, Aubrey, and was one of the celebrated twenty-five barons appointed as Sureties to enforce the observance of the Magna Charta. In the beginning of the reign of King Henry III., having made his peace, he appears, from a fine levied before him and others, to have been one of the judges in the Court of King's Bench. He was also one of the party to the covenant which resigned to the barons the custody of the city and tower of London, and one of those excommunicated by the Pope. He married Isabel Bolebec, daughter of Hugh de Bolebec, and sister and heir of Walter de Bolebec. Buried in the Priory of Hatfield, Essex, England." RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project: Celtic Royal Genealogy: Updated: 2009-12-14 19:15:41 UTC (Mon) Contact: Arthur E Turner-Thomas http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=aet-t&id=I11771 Saturday, December 26, 2009 29 Aubrey III DE VERE - 1st Earl of Oxford and 1st Earl of Essex Agnes of Essex "Aubrey de Vere, 1st Earl of Oxford, so created 1142 by the Empress Matilda and recognised as such by Stephen I (c1152-53); Master Chamberlain of England, as which inherited from father; married 1st c1139 (divorced by 1146) Beatrice, gdau of Manasses, Count of Guisnes, Northern France, whom Aubrey inherited in that fief late 1139 on doing homage to his overlord Thierry, Count of Flanders (though he was obliged to surrender it on his divorce); married 2nd by 1152 Eufeme (dspm (certainly and dsp probably 1153 or 1154), dau of William de Cauntelo; married 3rd 1162 or 1163 Agnes, dau of Henry de Essex, feudal Lord of Rayleigh and Haughley. [Burke's Peerage] ------------------------- Oxford, Earldom of: This title, held originally by the de Veres from 1142 to 1702/3, was not the earliest post-Conquest earldom creation. But by Charles I's reign it had been held in unbroken male succession for so long, and the Wars of the Roses together with the Tudor's use of attainder to cut down overmighty subjects had so depleted the other great medieval families, that Chief Justic Crew could in 1626 deliver his famous rhetorical question with some cogency. ["This great honour, this high and noble dignity hath continued ever since in the remarkable surname of de Vere, by so many ages, descents and generations, as no other kingdom can produce such a peer in one and the self same name and title. I find in all this length of time, but two attainders of this noble family, and those in stormy and tempestuous times, when the government was unsettled, and the kingdom in competition. I have laboured to make a covenant with myself, that affection may not press upon judgement, for I suppose there is not many that hath any apprehension of gentry or nobleness, but his affection stands to the continmacnce of so noble a name and house, and would take hold of a twig or a twine thread to uphold it. And yet, time hath its revolutions; there must be a period and an end to all things temporal--finis rerum--and end of names and dignities and whatever is terrene, and why not de Vere? For where is Bohun? Where is Mowbray? Where is Mortimer? Nay, which is more and most of all, where is Plantagent? They are entombed in the urns and sepulchres of mortality! And yet let the name and dignity of de Vere stand so long as it pleaseth God."] Aubrey de Vere's choice of Oxford as the name of his title in 1142 was somewhat arbitrary, however. The Empress Maud had conferred on him an Earldom of Cambridgeshire, together with the third penny of certain revenues from the count for the upkeep of the dignity, which at that time was a necessary concomitant of earldoms. But if Cambridgeshire were in the hands of the King of Scots [David I], which ultimately proved to be the case, and the Empress could not effect and exchange, Aubrey was to take his pick of title from the Earldoms of Berkshire, Dorsetshire or Wiltshire, besides Oxford (or Oxfordshire--there was little distinction between a county name and county town name at this period where earldoms were concerned). Aubrey only seems to have chosen Oxford(shire) because it was the least remote from his own principal land holdings in Essex--which is to say, not close at all, particularly given 12th century communications. [Burke's Peerage, Earldom of Oxford, p. 2178] __________________________________ AUBREY DE VERE III, Hereditary Master Chamberlain of England, 1st son and heir, born probably circa 1110. Before 113 6 he was given land at Hintlesham, Suffolk, and elsewhere by Alan son of Ralph and his mother Agnes, the grant being confirmed by Henry I and Count Stephen of Brittany as Lord of Richmond. Stephen's successor, Alan, Earl of Richmond, gave Aubrey and his heirs the lordship of Spains Hall in Finchingfield, Essex. In or shortly before 1139 the Count and Countess of Guisnes selected him as husband for their granddaughter and heiress, and he married Beatrice in England. On the death of her grandfather, Count Manasses, at the end of 1139, Aubrey hastened to Guisnes and, after doing homage to Thierry, Count of Flanders, became Count of Guisnes; and returning to England, be obtained from King Stephen his wife's English inheritance, i.e. a part of the barony of Folkestone. He remained in England, and in 1140 or early in 1141, as Count Aubrey, be corifirmed his father's gifts to Hatfield; and Ording, Abbot of St. Edmunds, granted to him as Count of Guisnes the fees and service of his uncle Roger de Vere and of Alan FitzFrodon, and 100 shillings per annum. In May 1141 Aubrey succeeded his father, and he continued to reside chiefly in England. From Stephen he probably obtained a charter confirming him in all his father's holdings; after which he turned to the Empress Maud, who gave him a general charter of confirmation, in particular of the office of Master Chamberlain. In 1142 he joined the plot of his brother-in-law, Geoffrey de Mandeville, 1st Earl of Essex, against Stephen, and in July 1142 the Empress granted him a charter, as Earl or Count Aubrey, by which she conceded that he should be Earl of Cambridgeshire, with the third penny, unless that county were held by the King of Scots; in which case, if she could not obtain it by exchange, Aubrey should be Earl Of Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire, or Dorsetshire at his option. She also confirmed the abovementioned charters and granted him inter alia all the land of William d'Avranches with the inheritance which he claimed jure uxoris and the tower and castle of Colchester. Evidently the King of Scots regarded Cambridge as an appanage of his Earldom of Huntingdon, for Aubrey took the title of EARL OF OXFORD, and so styled himself in a charter granted to Colne Priory for the soul of his father, probably soon afterwards and certainly not later than 1147. In 1143 Stephen crushed the plot against him by arresting Earls Geoffrey and Aubrey at St. Albans; and Aubrey had to surrender Canfield Castle to regain his freedom. In that year he is styled "Comes Albericus" in 3 documents relating to Hatfield Priory. Meanwhile Aubrey refused to return to his wife; and finally her father, the Constable of Bourbourg, arranged a divorce, with the consent of Aubrey, who thus ceased to be Count of Guisnes, within the years 1144- 46. Evidently Stephen did not recognise his Earldom, for in 1150 Aubrey attested a royal charter at Winchester without the style of comes. A rapprochement with Stephen was probably connected with Aubrey's 2nd marriage, for the King and Queen gave the bride the manor of Ickleton (Cambs) in free marriage; and on 3 May 1152 Queen Maud died at the Earl's castle of Hedingham. In the winter of 1152-53 he was with Stephen, who now appears to have recognised him as Earl, for at the siege of Wallingford he attested a royal charter as Earl Aubrey, and on 6 November 1153 at Westminster he attested the treaty between Stephen and Henry with the same Style. After the accession of Henry II he paid 500 marks for having the chamberlainship which his father held; and early in 1156 (2-10 January) the King granted him as Earl Aubrey the third penny of the pleas of Oxfordshire in order that he might be Earl thereof. As Earl Aubrey he attested royal charters at Newcastle and Colchester in 1158 and at Le Mans probably about Christmas 1160; but after 1160 his name does not appear as a witness to royal charters for some 16 years. At the inquest of 1166 his return showed that 30 tenants held between them 29 fees under Aubrey. From about 1176 his name again appears as a witness to charters. In 1184 or 1185 he obtained the wardship of Isabel, daughter and heir of Walter de Bolebec. He was present at the Coronation of Richard I on 3 September 1189; and in 1194 he was called on to pay £30 2s. 6d. towards the King's ransom. Aubrey probably founded the priories of Ickleton and Castle Hedingharn. He confirrned his father's foundation of Hatfield and gift to Colchester, and his mother's grant to St. Osyth; and he made gifts to St. Edmund and very many benefactions to Colne. He also confirmed a gift to Clerkenwell by Maud de Ros, daughter of Richard de Canville. He married, 1stly, in or before 1139, Beatrice (born after 1120), daughter of Henry, Constable of Bourbourg, by his 1st wlfe Sibyl (usually called Rose), daughter and in her issue sole heir of Manasses, COUNT OF GUISNES, by Emma, daughter and coheir of William, vicomte of Arques and Lord of Folkestonc, which marriage was dissolved in or before 1146, and Beatrice married, 2ndly, Baldwin, Lord of Ardres, but died s.p., a few days later, and was buried in the Abbey of La Capelle.(d) Aubrey m., 2zidly, in or before i i S2,,(e,).E-ufem-, said to be da. of Williarn DE CAUNTELO. She died s.p.m., almost certainly s.p., in 1153 or 1154, and was buried at Colne. He married, 3rdly, in 1162 or 1163, Agnes, daughter of Henry DE ESSEX, Lord of Rayleigh and Haughley, by his wife Cicely. This child, who was born in 1151 or 1152, the Earl tried to repudiate within a year; but she appealed from the Bishop of London's court to Rome, and in 1171 or 1172 Alexander III directed the Bishop to order him to take his wife back. She was living with him in 1191, and survived her husband. Aubrey died 26 December 1194, and was buried at Colne. Agnes was buried by his side. [Complete Peerage X:199-207]" RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project: Celtic Royal Genealogy: Updated: 2009-12-14 19:15:41 UTC (Mon) Contact: Arthur E Turner-Thomas http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=aet-t&id=I11773 Saturday, December 26, 2009 30 Aubrey II DE VERE - Sheriff of London and Middlesex Alice (Adeliza) Fitz Gilbert DE CLARE "Justiciar of England. AKA Alberic II (Aubrey) de Vere, Baron de Vere. 2nd Baron de Vere of Kensington. Master Chamberlain of England, 1133-1141 Subject: DE VERE (1140-1327) From: Dave Utzinger Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 23:04:49 -0500 Message-ID: <961204230446_906388193@emout06.mail.aol.com>

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Descendants of Aubrey de VERE II


Generation No. 1

1. Aubrey de VERE II1 died 15-May-1141 in slain. He
married
Alice de CLARE, daughter of Gilbert RICHARD and Adelaide.

Child of Aubrey and Alice is:
+ 2 i. Aubrey de VERE2, died 26-Dec-1194.

Generation No. 2

2. Aubrey de VERE2 (Aubrey de VERE II1) died 26-Dec-1194. He
married
Agnes de ESSEX 1162, daughter of Henry.

Child of Aubrey and Agnes is:
+ 3 i. Robert de VERE3, born Abt 1164 in (see notes);died Bef 25-Oct-1221.

Generation No. 3

3. Robert de VERE3 (Aubrey de VERE2, Aubrey de VERE II1) wasborn
Abt
1164
in (see notes), and died Bef 25-Oct-1221. He married Isabel de BOLBEC,
daughter of Hugh de BOLBEC.

Notes
Supplement to Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists by Frederick lewis Weis

M.C. b. prob. before 1164, d. before 25 Oct 1221, Magna Charta Surety,1215; m.
Isabel, d. 3 Feb 1245, dau of Hugh II de Bolbec (son of Walter I). and widow of
Henry de Nonant. (CP X 210-216, cf. 213 note b; Philip Morant, Hist of Essex, 1768,
II 159, 179-182).

Child of Robert and Isabel de BOLBEC is:
+ 4 i. Eleanor de VERE4, born Abt 1235 in Bakewell,Derby,
ENG;
died in (see
notes).

Generation No. 4

4. Eleanor de VERE4 (Robert de VERE3, Aubrey de VERE2, Aubreyde
VERE
II1)
was born Abt 1235 in Bakewell, Derby, ENG, and died in (see notes). She
married Sir Ralph GERNON, son of Sir GERNON and Beatrix de THEYDON.

Child of Eleanor and Sir GERNON is:
5 i. Sir William5 GERNON, born in (see notes); died1327.

He married Hawise TREGOZE.

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Alberic de Vere; described as King's Chamberlain by 1112; Sheriff of London, and
Middlesex 1121 or 1122, Jt Sheriff 1125, often Sheriff Essex, Jt Sheriff Beds, Bucks,
Cambs, Hunts, Norfolk, Suffolk, and Surrey 1129 and Essex, Herts, Leics, and
Northants 1139; married Alice, daughter of Gilbert FitzRichard, Lord of Clare and
Tunbridge, and sister of Gilbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke, and was killed in a riot in
London 15 May 1141. [Burke's Peerage]
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lberic de Vere, being in high favour with King Henry I, was constituted by that
monarch Great Chamberlain of England to hold the same in fee to himself and his
heirs with all dignities and liberties thereunto appertaining as fully and honourably
as Robert Malet, lord of the honour of Eye, in Suffolk, who had then been banished
and disinherited, had holden the same office. His lordship m. Adeliza, dau. of
Gilbert de Clare (or, according to Collins, Adeline, dau. of Roger de Yvery), and had
issue:

Alberic, or Aubrey, his successor,
-----, canon of St. Osyth's, in Essex,
Robert, Lord of Twiwell, co. Northampton,
Godfrey,
William, chancellor of England,
Adeliza, m. to Henry de Essex,
Juliana, m. to Hugh Bigod, Earl of Norfolk,
Rohesia, m. 1st to Geoffrey Mandeville, Earl of Oxford, and 2ndly, Payne
Beauchamp, of Bedford.

In the 5th year of King Stephen [1140], when joint sheriff (with Richard Basset, then
justice of England,) of Surrey, Cambridge, Essex, and several other counties, his
lordship was slain in a popular tumult at London, and was s. by his eldest son,
Aubrey de Vere. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct
Peerages, Burke's Peerage, London, 1883, p. 549, Vere, Earls of Oxford, &c.]
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AUBREY DF VERE II, 2nd but 1st surviving son and heir, born probably before 1090,
assented to his parents' gift of the church of Kensington to Abingdon, and as their
heir approved of the foundation of Colne Priory. Before the death of Gunter, Abbot of
Thorney, in 1112 he acknowledged by charter, as Aubrey the King's Chamberlain,
that he held Twywell (Notthants) of Thorney. He also held Great Addington and
Drayton, in chief, and other small properties in Northants. On the death of his
youngest brother William, he gave two ploughlands to Abingdon Abbey. As Aubrey
de Vere, the King's Chamberlain, he confirmed the gifts of his father and mother
and of his men, and his father's gifts of certain tithes, to Colne Priory. He begins to
attest 1121. He was sheriff of London and Middlesex in 1121 or 1122 and joint
sheriff in 1125; and sheriff of Essex in various years. He was joint sheriff, with
Richard Basset, of Surrey, Cambridge, Hunts, Norfolk, Suffolk, Bucks, and Beds
from Michaelmas 1129, and of Essex, Herts, Leicester, and Northants from Easter
1130. He was at the Council of Northampton in 1131. He was a justice in Norfolk, at
one time with Robert FitzWalter, at another with Richard Basset. In July 1133, at
Fareham, the King granted to Aubrey de Vere and his heirs his (the King's) Master
Chamberlainship of all England, in fee and inheritance. Aubrey was with the King at
Westbourne, when Henry left England for the last time on 2 August 1133, and
probably crossed the Channel with him; for he attested 2 writs issued at Dieppe
and 3 other acts at Falaise. He was with Stephen in 1136 at Westminster (Easter)
and at Winchestcr; in 1136 or early in 1137 at Clarendon; in 1137 at Westminstcr,
and at Portsmouth when Stephen was about to cross the Channel in March, and
after his return in December at Marlborough. He also attested various royal acts of
doubtful date, and other charters. At the end of August 1139, when the Synod at
Winchester summoned Stephen to account for his arrest of the Bishops in June,
the King sent Aubrey, as a man practised in legal cases, to give them his answer;
and Aubrey spoke up boldly for his royal client. According to his son, he was Chief
Justiciar of England. He founded a priory at Hatfield Broadoak, Essex, as a cell of
St. Melaine of Rennes, and was a benefactor to Colne Priory and Colchester Abbey.
He married Alice, daughter of Gilbert FlTZRICHARD, Lord of Clare and Tunbridge,
sister of Richard FITZGILBERT and of Gilbert, 1st EARL OF PEMBROKE, and aunt
of Gilbert and Roger, 1st and 2nd Earls of Hertford. He was slain in a riot in
London, 15 May 1141, and was buried in Colne Priory. His wife survived hirn. 22
years, and became a nun at St. Osyth's Priory. [Complete Peerage, X:195-9]"


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Aubrey I DE VERE
Beatrice of Ghent
"In 1086 Aubrey de Ver, the ancestor of the Earls of Oxford, in addtion to his
tenancies-in-chief in several counties, was an under-tenant of Geoffrey bishop of
Coutances in Kensington, Middlesex, and two places in Northamptonshire. This
indicates that his place of origin was Ver (as indicated), which is 18 kil. South of
Coutances and not Ver in the Bessin. [Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Families]
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Alberic/Aubrey de Ver (a place in the Cotentin Peninsula, Normandy), probably
himself a Norman; b. by 1040; by the Domesday Survey held numerous manors,
chiefly in Cambs, Essex, and Suffolk--Hedingham, Essex being the chief one, but
also in Hunts, Middx (including Cheniston, now Kensington) and Northants;
references to him as Chamberlain occur c1110; founded Earl's Colne Priory,
Essex, where he and many of his descendants are burried; Sheriff Berks by 1106;
married Beatrice and died probably 1112. [Burke's Peerage]
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DE VERE - Earls of Oxford, Marquess of Dublin, Duke of Ireland

Earldom, Creation of the Empress Maud and confirmed by Henry II, anno 1135.
Marquessate, Creation of Richard II, 1385
Dukedom, Creation of Richard II, 1385

LINEAGE: "The noblest subject in England, and indeed, as Englishmen loved to
say, the noblest subject in Europe, was Aubrey de Vere, twentieth and last of the old
Earls of Oxford. He derived his title through an uninterrupted male descent from a
time when the families of Howard and Seymour were still obscure, when the
Nevills and Percys enjoyed only a provincial celebrity, and when even the great
name of Plantagenet had not yet been heard in England. One chief of the house of
De Vere held high command at Hastings; another had marched with Godfrey and
Tancred over heaps of slaughtered Moslems to the sepulchre of Christ. The first
Earl of Oxford had been minister to Henry Beauclerc. The third earl had been
conspicuous among the lords who extorted the great charter from John. The
seventh earl had fought bravely at Cressy and Poictiers. The thirteenth earl had,
through many vicissitudes of fortune, been the chief of the party of the Red Rose
and had led the van on the decisive day at Bosworth. The seventeenth earl had
shone at the court of Elizabeth and had won for himself an honourable place
among the early masters of English poetry. The nineteenth earl had fallen in arms
for the Protestant religion and for the liberties of Europe under the walls of
Maestricht. His son, Aubrey, in whom closed the longest and most illustrious line of
nobles that England has seen, a man of loose morals but of inoffensive temper
and of courtly manners, was lord-lieutenant of Essex and colonel of the Blues." To
these remarks, the author of this work, in his Vicissitudes of Families, ventured
thus to refer:---

"Such is Macaulay's glowing and eloquent eulogium on the De Veres -- so
eloquent, indeed, that one regrets that the panegyric is somewhat exaggerated and
scarcely consistent with recorded fact. The line of the Earls of Oxford was certainly
the longest but, just as certainly, not the most illustrious that England has ever
seen. In personal achievement and historical importance, the De Veres can bear
no comparison with the Talbots, the Howards, the Nevills, the Percys, or the
Scropes; in antiquity of descent, the Courtenays, the De Bohuns, and the
Beauchamps were in all respects their equals, and in splendour of alliances, many
a less distinguished family far surpassed them. There was scarcely one of our
grand old house of the times of the Henrys and the Edwards that had not more of
royal blood. Nevertheless, I must freely admit, although I cannot subscribe to the
pre-eminence Macaulay assigns, that this famous house, if inferior to any, was only
so to the very first, to the most historic and to the most illustrious of our ancient
nobility."

The first mention of the De Veres is in the General Survey of England made by
William the Conqueror wherein Alberic de Ver possessed numerous lordships in
different shires, of which Chenisiton (now Kensington], co. Middlesex, was one,
and Hedingham, co. Essex, where his castle was sitmacted, and where he chiefly
resided, another. This Alberic m. Beatrix, Countess of Ghisnes in her own right, by
whom he had five sons, Alberic, Geoffrey, Roger, Robert and William. Alberic de
Vere, in the latter end of his days assumed the cowl, and d. a monk in 1088; he
was buried in the church of Colne Priory, which he founded, and was s. by his son,
Alberic de Vere. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct
Peerages, Burke's Peerage, London, 1883, p. 549, Vere, Earls of Oxford, &.]

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Vere FAMILY, noted English family that held the hereditary office of lord great
chamberlain from 1133 to 1779 and the earldom of Oxford from 1142 to 1703.

The family derived its name from the village of Ver, near Bayeux, in France. Its
founder, Aubrey de Vere (c. 1040-1112), was a Norman who came to England with
William the Conqueror and was granted lands by the latter in Essex, Suffolk,
Cambridgeshire, and Middlesex. His son Aubrey de Vere II (c. 1090-1141) was
made lord great chamberlain of England in 1133. His son Aubrey de Vere III (c.
1110-1194) was created Earl of Oxford in 1142. [Encyclopædia Britannica CD '97,
DE VERE FAMILY]

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AUBREY DE VERE I was almost certainly a Norman who derived his name from
Ver in the Côtentin and probably had connexions with the adjoining duchy of
Brittany. He was born probably before 1040. The Conqueror granted him, with other
lands, the great estates of an English thegn named Wulfwine in Essex, Suffolk, and
Cambridge. In 1084 he attested a royal charter for Lessay as Aubrey the
Chamberlain. In 1086 he held in chief 14 estates in Essex, with 2 houses and 3
acres in Colchester, 9 estates Suffolk, 7 in Cambs, and 2 in Hunts. He also held
Kensington in Middlesex and two properties in Northants of the Bishop of
Coutances, land in Hunts of the Abbey of Ramseyand land in two places in Essex
of Count Alan of Brittany. The head of his barony was at (Castle) Hedingham in
Essex, where he had planted a vineyard. It is usually assumed that he is identical
with, and not the father of, the Aubrey de Vere who attested a writ at Westminster
(September 1102 to Easter 1103 and a charter for Abingdon (1101-06). Not later
than 1106 he was acting as sheriff of Berkshire, being styled simply Aubrey. Within
the next few years he was acting as a justice in Northants, being styled Aubrey the
Chamberhiln, and as sheriff of Berkshire, being styled Aubrey de Berkshire. At the
dying request of his eldest son, not later than 1106, he gave Abingdon Abbey his
church of Kensington with its appurtenances and 2 hides and 1 yardland; but as he
resided mostly in Essex, he founded a priory at Earls Colne as a cell of Abingdon.
He seems to have held 1 1/2 knights' fees of the Abbey of St. Edmund. He married
Beatrice, whose parentage is unknown. He died before 1113 (almost certainly in
1112), at Colne Priory, and was buried with his wife in the church there. [Complete
Peerage X:194-5]"


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