 Abt 1115 - 1194 (79 years)
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| Name |
Aubrey III de Vere |
| Title |
1st Earl of Oxford |
| Birth |
Abt 1115 |
London, Middlesex, England  [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
26 Dec 1194 |
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England [1] |
| Person ID |
I36849 |
Bob Juch's Tree |
| Last Modified |
31 Dec 2022 |
| Father |
Lord Great Chamberlain of England Aubrey II de Vere, b. Abt 1080, Hedingham, Essex, England d. 15 May 1141, London, Middlesex, England (Age 61 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Mother |
Alice FitzGilbert de Clare, b. 1 Jan 1091, Tonbridge, Kent, England d. 1163, Tendring, Essex, England (Age 71 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Marriage |
Abt 1108 |
Suffolk, England |
| Family ID |
F612 |
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 | Death - 26 Dec 1194 - Oxford, Oxfordshire, England |
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| Notes |
- AUBREY DE VERE
First Earl of Oxford; Count of Guines; d 1194
... eldest surviving son of the above Aubrey, whom he succeeded in 1141. Having married Beatrice, daughter of Henry, castel Ian of Bourbourg, and heiress of her maternal grandfather, Manasses, count of Guines, Aubrey, on the latter's death (? 1139), became Count of Guines in her right (ib. pp. 189, 397; Stapleton, Archaeologia, xxxi. 216 sq.), and is so styled in a charter of the abbot of St. Edmund's (Cott. Chart. xxi. 6). It was also as count before his father's death that he executed the charter to Hatfield Priory quoted by Morant (Essex, ii. 506). In his 'Historiab Comitum Ardensium' (Pertz, vol. xxiv.), Lambert of Ardres, as the writer has shown (Academy, 28 May 1892), speaks of Aubrey as 'Albericus Aper' in his account of the comte of Guines. He was divorced by the Countess Beatrice, who then married Baldwin of Ardres, the claimant to the comte , about 1145 (Geoffrey de Mandeville, p. 189).
Meanwhile he had joined his brother-in-law, Earl Geoffrey, in intriguing with the Empress Maud (ib. p. 178), and, through his influence, obtained from her at Oxford in 1142 a remarkable charter, granting him lands and dignities, including an earldom, either of Cambridge, or, if that was impossible, of Oxford, Berkshire, Wiltshire, or Dorset, which charter her son Henry confirmed (ib. pp. 179-88). The title he adopted was that of Oxford, and in January 1156 Henry II by a fresh charter granted him its 'third penny' as earl (ib. p. 239). In 1166 he made a return of his knights' fees (Lib. Rub. p. 352). He is said to have founded the priories at Hedingham and at Ickleton, Cambridgeshire.
By his second wife, Euphemia Cantelupe, he seems to have had no issue, but by the third, Lucy, daughter of Henry of Essex, he left at his death in 1194 (Rot. Pip. 7 Ric. I) Aubrey, second earl, and Robert, third earl of Oxford [q. v.]
[Pipe Roll of 1130 (Record Comm.); Sarum Charters and Documents, Giraldus Cambrensis, William of Malmesbury, Matt. Paris, Liber Rubeus Scaccarii (all in Rolls Series); Madox's Baronia Anglica; Archaeologia; Morant's History of Essex; Pertz's Monuments; Foss's Judges of England; Dugdale's Monasticon; Round's Geoffrey de Mandeville and Feudal England; Academy, 28 May 1892; Cotton Charters; Pipe Rolls.] J.H.R.
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- [S211] Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr., The Magna Charta Sureties 1215, line 154.
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