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Individual Record for: Aubrey I DE VERE (male)

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In 1086 Aubrey de Ver, the ancestor of the Earls of Oxford, in addti on to his tenancies-in-chief in several counties, was an under-tenant of G eoffrey bishop of Coutances in Kensington, Middlesex, and two places in No rthamptonshire. This indicates that his place of origin was Ver (as indica ted), which is 18 kil. South of Coutances and not Ver in the Bessin. [Orig ins of Some Anglo-Norman Families]

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Alberic/Aubrey de Ver (a place in the Cotentin Peninsula, Normandy), proba bly himself a Norman; b. by 1040; by the Domesday Survey held numerous man ors, chiefly in Cambs, Essex, and Suffolk--Hedingham, Essex being the chi ef one, but also in Hunts, Middx (including Cheniston, now Kensington) a nd Northants; references to him as Chamberlain occur c1110; founded Earl 's Colne Priory, Essex, where he and many of his descendants are burrie d; Sheriff Berks by 1106; married Beatrice and died probably 1112. [Burke 's Peerage]

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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 lov ed to say, the noblest subject in Europe, was Aubrey de Vere, twentieth a nd last of the old Earls of Oxford. He derived his title through an uninte rrupted male descent from a time when the families of Howard and Seymour w ere still obscure, when the Nevills and Percys enjoyed only a provincial c elebrity, and when even the great name of Plantagenet had not yet been hea rd in England. One chief of the house of De Vere held high command at Hast ings; another had marched with Godfrey and Tancred over heaps of slaughter ed Moslems to the sepulchre of Christ. The first Earl of Oxford had been m inister to Henry Beauclerc. The third earl had been conspicuous among t he lords who extorted the great charter from John. The seventh earl had fo ught bravely at Cressy and Poictiers. The thirteenth earl had, through ma ny vicissitudes of fortune, been the chief of the party of the Red Rose a nd had led the van on the decisive day at Bosworth. The seventeenth earl h ad shone at the court of Elizabeth and had won for himself an honourable p lace among the early masters of English poetry. The nineteenth earl had fa llen in arms for the Protestant religion and for the liberties of Europe u nder the walls of Maestricht. His son, Aubrey, in whom closed the longe st and most illustrious line of nobles that England has seen, a man of loo se morals but of inoffensive temper and of courtly manners, was lord-lieut enant of Essex and colonel of the Blues." To these remarks, the auth or 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 el oquent, indeed, that one regrets that the panegyric is somewhat exaggerat ed and scarcely consistent with recorded fact. The line of the Earls of Ox ford was certainly the longest but, just as certainly, not the most illust rious that England has ever seen. In personal achievement and historical i mportance, the De Veres can bear no comparison with the Talbots, the Howar ds, the Nevills, the Percys, or the Scropes; in antiquity of descent, t he Courtenays, the De Bohuns, and the Beauchamps were in all respects the ir equals, and in splendour of alliances, many a less distinguished fami ly far surpassed them. There was scarcely one of our grand old house of t he times of the Henrys and the Edwards that had not more of royal blood. N evertheless, I must freely admit, although I cannot subscribe to the pre-e minence Macaulay assigns, that this famous house, if inferior to any, w as only so to the very first, to the most historic and to the most illustr ious of our ancient nobility."

The first mention of the De Veres is in the General Survey of England ma de by William the Conqueror wherein Alberic de Ver possessed numerous lord ships in different shires, of which Chenisiton (now Kensington], co. Middl esex, was one, and Hedingham, co. Essex, where his castle was sitmacted, a nd where he chiefly resided, another. This Alberic m. Beatrix, Counte ss of Ghisnes in her own right, by whom he had five sons, Alberic, Geoffre y, Roger, Robert and William. Alberic de Vere, in the latter end of his da ys assumed the cowl, and d. a monk in 1088; he was buried in the chur ch of Colne Priory, which he founded, and was s. by his son, Alberic de Ve re. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerage s, 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 lo rd great chamberlain from 1133 to 1779 and the earldom of Oxford from 11 42 to 1703.

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

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AUBRFY DE VERE I was almost certainly a Norman who derived his name from V er in the Ctentin and probably had connexions with the adjoining duc hy of Brittany. He was born probably before 1040. The Conqueror granted hi m, with other lands, the great estates of an English thegn named Wulfwi ne in Essex, Suffolk, and Cambridge. In 1084 he attested a royal charter f or Lessay as Aubrey the Chamberlain. In 1086 he held in chief 14 estat es in Essex, with 2 houses and 3 acres in Colchester, 9 estates Suffol k, 7 in Cambs, and 2 in Hunts. He also held Kensington in Middlesex and t wo properties in Northants of the Bishop of Coutances, land in Hunts of t he Abbey of Ramseyand land in two places in Essex of Count Alan of Brittan y. The head of his barony was at (Castle) Hedingham in Essex, where he h ad planted a vineyard. It is usmaclly assumed that he is identical with, a nd not the father of, the Aubrey de Vere who attested a writ at Westminst er (September 1102 to Easter 1103 and a charter for Abingdon (1101-06). N ot later than 1106 he was acting as sheriff of Berkshire, being styled sim ply Aubrey. Within the next few years he was acting as a justice in Northa nts, being styled Aubrey the Chamberhiln, and as sheriff of Berkshire, bei ng styled Aubrey de Berkshire. At the dying request of his eldest son, n ot later than 1106, he gave Abingdon Abbey his church of Kensington with i ts appurtenances and 2 hides and 1 yardland; but as he resided mostly in E ssex, 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 m arried Beatrice, whose parentage is unknown. He died before 1113 (almost c ertainly in 1112), at Colne Priory, and was buried with his wife in the ch urch there. [Complete Peerage X:194-5]

Notes Source: bulkeley.txt

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