Joan de Vere

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• Alternate death: Bef 24 Nov 1293

Joan married William de Warenne in 1284. William (son of John de Warenne and Alice de Lusignan) was born in of Medmenham, Buckinghamshire, England; died on 15 Dec 1286 in Croydon, Surrey, England; was buried in Lewes Priory, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Alice de Warenne died between 1330 and 23 May 1338.

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Earl of Oxford. His heart was buried at Grey Friars Abbey, Ipswich.

"He joined the rebellion of Simon de Montfort and was knighted by him before the battle of Lewes, 14 May 1264. He was captured at the battle of Kenilworth, 31 July 1265 and later released." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, citation details below.]

Robert married Alice de Sanford before 22 Feb 1252. Alice (daughter of Gilbert de Sanford and Lorette la Zouche) died before 9 Sep 1312 in Canfield, Essex, England; was buried in Earl's Colne Priory, Halstead, Great Bromley, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 7 Sep 1312

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Earl of Oxford. Hereditary master chamberlain.

Hugh married Hawise de Quincy after 11 Feb 1223. Hawise (daughter of Saher de Quincy and Margaret of Leicester) died after 1263; was buried in Earl's Colne Priory, Halstead, Great Bromley, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Aft 1273

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• Alternate death: 1250

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Hereditary chamberlain to the Queen at the coronation of Queen Eleanor, 1236.

Gilbert married Lorette la Zouche. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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3rd Earl of Oxford; hereditary Master Chamberlain. Magna Carta surety. Justice itinerant in 1220; a justice in the king's court at Westminster, 1221.

Robert married Isabel de Bolebec. Isabel (daughter of Hugh II de Bolebec) was born about 1164; died on 2 Feb 1245; was buried in Church of the Black Friars, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 3 Feb 1245

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"Isabel, da. and h. of Walter de Bolebec, Lord of Whitchurch, Bucks. m., as his 1st wife, Aubrey (de Vere), 2nd Earl of Oxford (who d. s.p. legit. in 1214), and d. s.p.1206-7. Isabel, da. of Hugh and sister of Walter de Bolebec abovenamed, coh. to her niece, Isabel, Countess of Oxford, and widow of Henry de Nonant, m. Robert (de Vere), 3rd Earl of Oxford (who d. 1221), br. and h. of Aubrey. She d. 3 Feb. 1244/5, being ancestress of those later Earls of Oxford, who, from Tudor times, adopted the style of Viscount or Baron Bolebec, or Bulbeck." [Complete Peerage XIV:95, completely replacing the text of the entry in II:203.]

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• Alternate birth: of Grantchester, Cambridgeshire, England

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Earl of Winchester. Also spelled Saier, Saer.

Magna Carta surety.

Steward of the King 1205-7; Constable of Fotheringay Castle 1215; Judge in the King's Court 1211, 1213-14; Keeper of Canford and Hedingham Castles 1214.

Died in the Fifth Crusade. His heart was brought back and interred at Garendon Abbey near Loughborough, a house endowed by his wife's family. The rest of him was buried in Acre. [Royal Ancestry]

Saher married Margaret of Leicester before 1173. Margaret (daughter of Robert de Breteuil and Pernel de Grandmesnil) died on 12 Jan 1235. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 1236

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Or Margery. [Royal Ancestry]

Also known as Margaret de Beaumont.

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Serjeant of the Queen's Chamber.

John married Alice Basset. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Bef 1178, of Ashby de la Zouche, Leicestershire, England

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Sheriff of Devonshire 1228-31. A witness to Henry III's confirmation of Magna Carta.

Roger married Margaret Biset. Margaret (daughter of Henry Biset and (Unknown first wife of Henry Biset)) was born in of Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England; died after 15 Aug 1232. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Aft 1232
• Alternate death: Bef 14 May 1238

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1st Earl of Oxford. Hereditary Master Chamberlain. Count of Guisnes 1139-~1145.

"In 1142 he sided with Geoffrey de Mandeville, Earl of Essex, against King Stephen for which he was arrested in 1143 and released only after he surrendered Canfield Castle. In 1142 the Empress Maud appointed him Earl of Oxford. He probably founded the priories of Ickleton and Castle Hedington and was a frequent benefactor of Colne Priory." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz]

Aubrey married Agnes of Essex between 1162 and 1163. Agnes (daughter of Henry of Essex and Cecily de Valognes) was born between 1151 and 1152; died after 1205; was buried in Earl's Colne Priory, Halstead, Great Bromley, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1151

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• Alternate birth: of Whitchurch, Buckinghamshire, England

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• Alternate birth: of Buckby, Northamptonshire, England
• Alternate death: Bef 29 Sep 1197
• Alternate death: Bef 1208

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Or de Quency. [Royal Ancestry] Justiciar of Scotland; Crusader.

Robert married Orabel fitz Ness before 1155, and was divorced before 1174. Orabel (daughter of Ness fitz William) died before 30 Jun 1203. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Countess of Mar. Also called Orabel de Leuchars.

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• Alternate birth: Bef 1135
• Alternate death: 31 Aug 1190, At sea
• Alternate death: 31 Aug 1190, Romania

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Earl of Leicester. Also known as Robert de Beaumont. According to Complete Peerage, nicknamed ès Blanchemains, which translates as "white-hands".

Steward of England and Normandy; seigneur of Bréteuil and Paci in Normandy. In 1173, he supported Prince Henry, the "young king," in his rebellion against his father Henry II, and in consequence he and his wife were imprisoned by the elder Henry from fall 1173 to fall 1174.

Died on the way to Jerusalem. Durazzo is now the city of Durres in Albania.

Robert married Pernel de Grandmesnil in 1155. Pernel (daughter of William de Grandmesnil) died on 1 Apr 1212. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Called "Petronilla" in many sources.

Royal Ancestry gives her as the "daughter of Hugh de Grandmesnil of Hinckley, Leicestershire."

Complete Peerage says "[Robert, Earl of Leicester (d. 1190)] m., before 1155-1159, Pernel (Petronilla), heiress of the Norman honour of Grandmesnil, great-granddaughter of Hugh de Grandmesnil, the Domesday tenant, but her ancestry has not been discovered. (h)
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"Hugh de Grandmesnil, the Domesday tenant, had five sons -- Robert, William, Hugh, Ives and Aubrey ... Robert, the eldest son, inherited the Norman lands which are later found in Robert FitzPernel's hands [i.e. Robert, Earl of Leicester (d. 1204), the son of Pernel]. He m., 1stly, Agnes, da. of Ranulph de Bayeux; 2ndly, Emma, da. of Robert d'Estouteville; and, 3rdly, Lucy, da. of Savary FitzCana (Orderic, vol. iii, p. 359). ... if she [Pernel] inherited the Norman lands she would in all probability be a daughter of a son of Hugh's son Robert. Hugh's father and son are both called Robert, and if this alternating nomenclature -- a very usual system -- was continued, a son of Robert the younger would be named Hugh. This is the name given to Pernel's father in the foundation narrative of Leicester Abbey, and although the story told there is fictitious ... it is possible that the writer may have had before him a document such as a list of obits giving the authentic name. It is not claimed that this suggested descent is more than speculative."

Chris Phillips, in his Some corrections and additions to the Complete Peerage, Volume 7: Leicester, says "In fact, Pernel's father was called William, as shown by a charter for St-Evroult discovered by David Crouch [The Beaumont Twins, p.91, citing the Cartulary of St-Evroult, ii, fo 33v]. However, the argument that her grandfather is likely to have been Robert, the eldest son of Hugh de Grandmesnil, still seems sound. To some extent it is supported by the following evidence.

"In 1157, Henry II confirmed gifts made to the hospital of Falaise by William de Grentmesnil and others [Cal. Docs France, no 1157]. By an undated charter (perhaps from 1160 or later), one Beatrix de Rye gave land to the abbey of St Jean of Falaise, for the well-being of her mother Emma and of her brother William de Grentemesnil [Lechaude d'Anisy, Extrait des Chartes ... dans les archives du Calvados, vol.1, p.232, no 9 (1834)]. It seems likely that this Beatrix was a daughter of Robert de Grandmesnil by his second wife, Emma d'Estouteville, particularly as the name Beatrix occurs in the Estouteville family, and was possibly borne by Emma's mother [C.T. Clay, ed., Early Yorkshire Charters, vol.9, p.2 (1952)]. If so, this would confirm that Robert also had a son William, who would probably be Pernel's father.

"Note that K.S.B. Keats-Rohan [Domesday People I, p. 263 (1999)] states that Pernel's father William was the son of Robert by Emma d'Estouteville, but no evidence is cited for the relationship."

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1132, Brittany, France

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Also called Alan Ceoche, Alan la Coche. In England by 1172. Of North Molton, Devonshire.

Alan married Alice de Belmeis. Alice (daughter of Philip de Belmeis and Maud le Meschin) was born in of Tong, Shropshire, England; died after 1190. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Alix de Beaumez.

Henry married (Unknown first wife of Henry Biset). (Unknown was born about 1160. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: of Great Addington, Northampton, England

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"Slain in a riot in London." [Complete Peerage]

Also known as Alberic; Albericus de Ver.

From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography:

"Vere, Aubrey (II) de (d. 1141), administrator, was the son and successor of Aubrey (I) de Vere and Beatrice, his wife. While the family was from Ver, south of Coutances in Normandy, there is no evidence that Aubrey senior or his descendants held lands either there or in Brittany, with which they retained ties. The elder Aubrey was most probably the younger son of a Norman lord who prospered in England after the conquest, becoming a royal chamberlain. Probably born in the early 1080s, Aubrey junior married Alice (d. 1163?), daughter of Gilbert de Clare, before 1107. He was to become one of the most prominent royal administrators of the later years of the reign of Henry I and the early years of Stephen. It is likely that Aubrey (II) began his administrative career as royal chamberlain, possibly inheriting that office from his father when the latter died c.1112. By 1121 he was sheriff of Essex, and, later in that decade, of London and Middlesex. The extent of the king's confidence in de Vere is evident in his appointment as joint sheriff, with Richard Basset, to the custody of eleven counties in 1129-30. This unprecedented situation was probably part of an effort to collect arrears and to adjust the shrieval farms. While the king had levied one fine of 550 marks and four war-horses against him for having allowed a prisoner to escape, and another of at least 100 marks for permission to resign the shrievalty of Essex and Hertfordshire, these fines had gone largely uncollected -- another sign of royal favour. In 1133 Henry I bestowed the hereditary office of master chamberlain of England on de Vere; the office was to remain in the de Vere family until 1703. Although his royal service was primarily confined to England, he was at least twice with Henry I in Normandy.

"When Aubrey de Vere's son William de Vere asserted that his father was 'justiciar of all England', and privy to important royal secrets, he seems to have meant that his father had travelled extensively as a justice, rather than that he had been chief justiciar of the realm. William of Malmesbury describes him as causidicus -- a pleader or advocate -- and skilled in the law. De Vere may have served as an itinerant justice under Henry I; he certainly did so in Stephen's reign. He had accepted Stephen's rule by Easter 1136, and when the king was summoned before an ecclesiastical council after his arrest of Roger of Salisbury and other bishops in 1139, he sent de Vere as his advocate. Aubrey de Vere was killed in a London riot on 15 May 1141, perhaps while supporting his son-in-law Geoffrey de Mandeville, first earl of Essex (d. 1144). [...]

"His family was to prove one of the longest lasting in the history of the English aristocracy. His eldest son was made earl of Oxford in the year of Aubrey (II)'s death, and although its descent was several times transmitted through collaterals, and twice interrupted by forfeitures, the title nevertheless passed to no fewer than nineteen successive descendants, until the twentieth earl, also Aubrey de Vere, died without a male heir in 1703."

Aubrey married Alice de Clare before 1106. Alice (daughter of Gilbert fitz Richard de Clare and Alice de Clermont) died in 1163 in St. Osyth Priory, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"Adeliza the wife of Aubrey de Vere is attested by a fairly unimpeachable source, her own son William in notes added to his life of St Osyth. According to him she lived for 22 years as a widow at St Osyth's priory in Essex, so she evidently died ca 1163." [Peter Stewart, citation details below]

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Also called Henry fitz Robert. "He forfeited his vast estates in 1163, when he was defeated in single combat by Robert de Montfort, who had accused him of treason because in a battle with the Welsh in 1157 he threw away the royal banner and fled." [Complete Peerage]

Henry married Cecily de Valognes. Cecily (daughter of Roger de Valognes and Agnes fitz John) died before 1186. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Walter married Helewise. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: of Daventry, Northamptonshire, England

Saher married Maud de Senlis after 1136. Maud (daughter of Simon I de Senlis and Maud of Northumberland) was born about 1092; died after 1158. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 1140
• Alternate death: Between 1158 and 1163
• Alternate death: Bef 1165

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Also called Maud de St. Liz.

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Also known as Ness Fitz Countess [Royal Ancestry] and Ness de Leuchars.

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Earl of Leicester. Also called, but only by later historians and genealogists, Robert de Beaumont.

Twin brother of Waleran, Count of Muelan, 1st Earl of Worcester. After their father's death, the two brothers were raised together in the royal household. Much detail on his career here.

Justiciar of England, 1155-1168.

Robert married Amice de Gael after Nov 1120. Amice (daughter of Ralph II de Gael) died in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Amice de Montfort.

She died as a nun in Nuneaton Priory. Complete Peerage says she died after 1168. Royal Ancestry says she died on a 31 August, year uncertain.

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Vicomte de Porhoët.

Geoffrey married Hawise Fergant. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Havide de Bretagne; Hawise of Brittany.

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Also called Philippe de Beaumez. In Aug 1138 he was with King Stephen besieging Shrewsbury.

Philip married Maud le Meschin before 1139. Maud (daughter of William Meschin and Cecily de Rumilly) was born in of Skipton-in-Craven, Yorkshire, England; died after 1180. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Aft 6 Jul 1189

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Also called Manser; Mancel.

Steward to Henry II by 1153.

Manasser married Alice de Falaise. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Alice de Cany.