Countess of Ghisnes Beatrice (Beatrix)

Family/Spouse: Lord of Cheniston Alberic (Aubrey) de Vere. Alberic (son of Count Ghesnes Alphonso) was born about 1030 in Ghesnes, France; died about 1112 in Hedingham, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Earl of Oxford; High Chamberlain of England; Lord of Hedingham

AUBREY DE VERE
Chamberlain of England, d 1141

Aubrey de Vere, great chamberlain, was son and successor of Aubrey(Albericus) de Vere 'senior, ' by Beatrice his wife. He is found in 1125 acting as joint-sheriff of London (Geoffrey de Mandeville, p. 309); and in 1180 he appears, in conjunction with Richard Basset, as holding the shrievalty of eleven counties 'ut custodes' for the crown (ib. pp. 297-8). But he was then indebted for an enormous sum to the crown for having allowed a prisoner to escape, and for permission to resign the shrievalty of Essex and Hertfordshire (Rot. Pip. 31 Hen. I, p. 53). In September 1131 he was among the magnates attending the council of Northampton (Sarum Charters, 6); and in 1133, on the king leaving England for the last time, Aubrey was given at Fernham the office of great chamberlain for himself and his heirs (Madox, Baronia Anglica, p. 158).He is found at Stephen's court as chamberlain early in 1136 (Geoffrey de Mandeville, pp. 262-3), and was with him at Clarendon not long afterwards(ib. p. 378). When, in 1139, Stephen was called upon to defend before a council his arrest of the bishops, he selected as his advocate Aubrey, whom William of Malmesbury describes as 'causidicus' and as practiced in(legal) cases (pp. 552-4). He was slain on 9 May 1141 (not, as stated, 1140) in a London riot (Matt. Paris, Chron. Major, ii. 174; Geoffrey Mandeville, p. 81).

The statement that he was 'chief justiciar of England, ' for which Foss could find no authority (Judges of England, pp. 89, 188-9), rests on the assertion to that effect by his son William in a tract 'De miraculis S. Osythae' (Geoffrey de Mandeville, p. 390).

There has been much confusion as to Aubrey's marriage and children. By his wife Alice, daughter of Gilbert (Fitz Richard) de Clare -- who survived him twenty-two years, retiring as a widow to St. Osyth's Priory-- he left, besides Aubrey, his successor (see below), three sons: (2)Geoffrey, who in 1142 was promised by the empress the fief of Geoffrey Talbot, and who, afterwards marrying the widow of William Fitz Alan, held a Gloucestershire fief in her right, besides a Shropshire one in 1166(Lib. Rub. pp. 274, 298); (3) Robert, who in 1142 was promised by the empress a 'barony' of equal value (Geoffrey de Mandeville, p. 182), and who held a small Northamptonshire fief in 1166 (Lib. Rub. p. 335; Feudal England, p. 220); (4) William, who in 1142 was promised the reversion to the chancellorship (Geoffrey de Mandeville, p. 182), and who was identical with the writer of the above tract, a canon of St. Osyth's (ib. p. 389). Of Aubrey's daughters, Rohese married, first, Geoffrey, first earl of Essex [q.v.], secondly, Payne de Beauchamp of Bedford; and Alice, first, Robert of Essex, secondly, Roger Fitz Richard of Warkworth (ib. p.392).

Aubrey married Alice FitzGilbert de Clare about 1108 in Suffolk, England. Alice (daughter of Earl Hertford Gilbert FitzRichard de Clare and Adeliza (Alice) de Clermont, daughter of Gilbert FitzRichard de Clare and Adeliza (Alice) de Clermont) was born on 1 Jan 1091 in Tonbridge, Kent, England; died in 1163 in Tendring, Essex, England; was buried in St Osyth, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: Abt 1089, Hedingham, Essex, England
• Birth: 1103, Hedingham, Essex, England
• Death: Aft Sep 1166

Rohese married Earl of Essex Geoffrey de Mandeville, 1st Earl of Essex in 1129 in England. Geoffrey (son of William de Mandeville and Margaret de Rie) was born in 1092 in Great Waltham, Essex, England; died on 14 Sep 1144 in Mildenhall, Suffolk, England; was buried in London, Greater London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Payne (Pagan) Beauchamp. Payne (son of Robert Beauchamp) was born about 1085 in of Essex and Bedfordshire, England; died on 7 May 1157 in Bedford Castle, Bedfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Juliana married 1st Earl of Norfolk Hugh Bigod about 1133 in Marriage was annulled. Hugh (son of Earl of East Anglia Roger Bigod and Adeliza de Toeni) was born about 1095 in Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, England; died about 1177 in Thetford Church, Norfolk, England; was buried in Thetford Church, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Roger de Glandville. Roger (son of Hervey de Glanville and Matilda de Salt-les-Dames) was born about 1111. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Walkelin Maminot. Walkelin was born about 1111 in West Greenwich, Kent, England; died in 1182. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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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.

Family/Spouse: Agnes de Essex. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alice married 1st Baron of Warkworth Roger FitzRichard before 1176. Roger (son of Lord Baron Halton Richard FitzEustace Clavering and Jane Bigod) was born about 1141 in Warkworth Castle, Alnwick, Northumberland, England; died in 1178 in Warkworth Castle, Alnwick, Northumberland, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: 1138, Rycott, Oxfordshire, England
• Birth: 1138, Rycott,,Oxfordshire,England
• Birth: 1142, Pleshey, Essex, England
• Death: Oct 1166, Pleshey,,Essex,England

Maud married Piers de Lutgareshale about 1160 in Costow,,Wiltshire,England. Piers was born about 1134 in Cherhill, Wiltshire, England; died after 8 May 1198 in Pleshey, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Maud married Hugh de Boclande about 1154 in Pleshey, Essex, England. Hugh was born about 1130 in Buckland, Hertfordshire, England; died after 1176. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Constable of Chester John de Lacy. John (son of Lord Baron Halton Richard FitzEustace Clavering and Albreda (Aubrye) de Lisoures) was born in 1150 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: 1st Earl of Norfolk Hugh Roger de Moreville. Hugh (son of Simon de Moreville and Ada d'Engaine) was born about 1123 in Burgh-by-Sands, Cumberland, England; died in 1162 in Burgh-by-Sands, Cumberland, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Roger Bigod, 2nd earl of Norfolk, who, in the 1st year of Richard I, had charter dated at Westminster, 27 November, reconstituting him Earl of Norfolk and steward of the household, his lordship obtaining at the same time restitution of some manors, with grants of others, and confirmation of all his wide-spreading demesnes. In the same year he was made one of the ambassadors from the English monarch to Philip of France, for obtaining aid towards the recovery of the Holy Land. Upon return of King Richard from his captivity, the Earl of Norfolk assisted at the great council held by the king at Nottingham; and at his second coronation, his lordship was one of the four earls that carried the silken canopy over the monarch's head. In the reign of King John he was one of the barons that extorted the great Charters of Freedom from that prince, and was amongst the twenty-five lords appointed to enforce their fulfillment. His lordship m. Isabel, dau. of Hamelyn, Earl of Warrenne and Surrey, and had issue,

Hugh, his successor.
William, m. Margaret, dau of Robert de Sutton, with whom he acquired considerable property.
Thomas.
Margery, m. to William de Hastings.
Adeliza, m. to Alberic de Vere, Earl of Oxford.
Mary, m. to Ralph Fitz-Robert, Lord of Middlesham.

The earl d. in 1220 and was s. by his eldest son, Hugh Bigod, 3rd earl.

[Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 53, Bigod, Earls of Norfolk]

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The Bigods held the hereditary office of steward (dapifer) of the royal household, and their chief castle was at Framlingham in Suffolk.[Encyclopedia Britannica, 1961 ed, Vol. 3, pages 556/557, article Hugh Bigod, Earl of Norfolk.)

Roger married Ida (Isabel) de Warenne about 1185. Ida (daughter of 5th Earl of Surrey Hamelin de Warenne and Countess of Surrey Isabel de Warenne) was born in 1154 in Norfolk, England; died in 1189/1259. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Isabel de Bolebec. Isabel was born in 1175; died about 1206. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Isabel de Bolebec in 1208. Isabel (daughter of Hugh de Bolebec) was born about 1176; died on 3 Feb 1245. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]