Rohese de Vere

Abt 1110 - 1166  (~ 56 years)

• Name	Rohese de Vere  [1, 2]
  Birth	Abt 1110  [3]
  Gender	Female
  Death	1166  [4]
  Person ID	I2425	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of LD, Ancestor of LDN, Ancestor of LMW, Ancestor of TNH
  Last Modified	6 Jan 2018

  
  

  Father	Aubrey de Vere,   b. Bef 1090, of Hedingham, Essex, England d. 15 May 1141, London, England (Age > 51 years)
  Mother	Alice de Clare   d. 1163, St. Osyth Priory, Essex, England
  Marriage	Bef 1106  [4]
  Family ID	F5257	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Payne de Beauchamp   d. Bef 1155
  Children	+ 1. Simon de Beauchamp,   b. Abt 1145, of Bedford, Bedfordshire, England d. Abt 1207 (Age ~ 62 years)
  Family ID	F1457	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Sep 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Payn de Beauchamp [...] was both outlived and overshadowed by his wife, Rohese [Rose] de Beauchamp (d. 1166). [...] In common with most of their contemporaries the earlier Beauchamps had already made grants to religious houses, including St Albans and Bermondsey, but the Beauchamps' patronage of the church now moved onto a new plane with the foundation of a priory for Gilbertine nuns at Chicksands, Bedfordshire, c.1150. Although her husband, Payn, was associated with her in early charters, Rohese was always spoken of as the founder. Her support for the priory and her forceful personality were vividly illustrated by her response to the death of her son from her first marriage, Geoffrey de Mandeville. After his death his men tried to take his body to Walden, Essex, for burial at the abbey founded by his father. On hearing this Rohese gathered a band of armed retainers and caught up with the cortege, ordering it to go instead to Chicksands. However, early the next morning her son's servants turned the bier around and took it to Walden Abbey before Rohese could prevent it. Thwarted in her efforts to have her son's body in her own chosen burial place, Rohese retaliated by taking all the furnishings of Geoffrey's private chapel for Chicksands. Rohese was also closely involved in the early stages of the foundation (c.1166) of Newnham Priory by her son Simon [ii] de Beauchamp (c.1145–1206/7). [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]

  
  

• Sources

  [S789] The Wallop Family and Their Ancestry by Vernon James Watney. Oxford, 1928. [S1331] The Ancestry of Nicholas Davis, 1753-1832, of Limington, Maine by Walter Goodwin Davis. Portland, Maine: Anthoensen Press, 1956. [S160] Wikipedia. [S76] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004-ongoing.