Aubrey de Vere

Bef 1090 - 1141  (> 51 years)

• Name	Aubrey de Vere  [1, 2, 3]
  Birth	Bef 1090	of Hedingham, Essex, England   [4, 5, 6]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	of Great Addington, Northampton, England   [7]
  Death	15 May 1141	London, England   [6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
  Siblings	1 sibling
  + 1. (Unknown) de Vere ▻ (Unknown) de Camville + 2. Aubrey de Vere ,   b. Bef 1090, of Hedingham, Essex, England d. 15 May 1141, London, England  (Age > 51 years) ▻ Alice de Clare ,  m. Bef 1106
  Person ID	I2737	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of EK, Ancestor of GFS, Ancestor of JMF, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of LD, Ancestor of LDN, Ancestor of LMW, Ancestor of TNH, Ancestor of TSW, Ancestor of TWK, Ancestor of UKL, Ancestor of WPF
  Last Modified	6 Jan 2018

  
  

  Father	Aubrey de Vere,   b. of Vair, Ancenis, Loire-Atlantique, France d. 1112
  Mother	Beatrice   bur. Earl's Colne Priory, Halstead, Great Bromley, Essex, England
  Family ID	F3005	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Alice de Clare   d. 1163, St. Osyth Priory, Essex, England
  Marriage	Bef 1106  [8]
  Children	+ 1. Juliana de Vere   d. Aft 1185 + 2. Rohese de Vere,   b. Abt 1110   d. 1166 (Age ~ 56 years) + 3. Aubrey de Vere,   b. Abt 1110, of Hedingham, Essex, England d. 26 Dec 1194 (Age ~ 84 years) + 4. Alice de Vere,   b. Bef 1141   d. Aft 1185 (Age > 46 years)
  Family ID	F5257	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Jun 2018

  
  

• Notes

  "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."

  
  

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