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Birth:          ABT 1082 of Hedingham, Essex, England
Death:          15 May 1141 London, England
Burial:         Colne Priory, Earls Colne, Essex, England

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey_de_Vere_II
Aubrey de Vere (c. 1085 – May 1141) — also known as "Alberic[us] de Ver" and 
"Albericus regis camerarius" (the king's chamberlain)— was the second of that name in 
England after the Norman Conquest, being the eldest surviving son of Aubrey de Vere 
and his wife Beatrice.

Aubrey II served as one of the king's chamberlains and as a justiciar under kings 
Henry I and Stephen.[1] Henry I also appointed him as sheriff of London and Essex 
and co-sheriff with Richard Basset of eleven counties. In June 1133, that king 
awarded the office of master chamberlain to Aubrey and his heirs. A frequent witness 
of royal charters for Henry I and Stephen, he appears to have accompanied Henry to 
Normandy only once. The chronicler William of Malmesbury reports that in 1139, 
Aubrey was King Stephen's spokesman to the church council at Winchester, when the 
king had been summoned to answer for the seizure of castles held by Roger, Bishop of 
Salisbury and his nephews, the bishops of Ely and Lincoln.[2] In May 1141, during the 
English civil war, Aubrey was killed by a London mob and was buried in the family 
mausoleum at Colne Priory, Essex.

The stone tower at Hedingham, in Essex, was most likely begun by Aubrey and 
completed by his son and heir, Aubrey de Vere, 1st Earl of Oxford. In addition to his 
patronage of Colne Priory, the new master chamberlain either founded a cell of the 
Benedictine abbey St. Melanie in Rennes, Brittany, at Hatfield Broadoak or Hatfield 
Regis, Essex, or took on the primary patronage of that community soon after it was 
founded.

His eldest son, another Aubrey de Vere, was later created Earl of Oxford, and his 
descendants held that title and the office that in later centuries was known as Lord 
Great Chamberlain until the extinction of the Vere male line in 1703.[3]

His wife Adeliza, daughter of Gilbert fitz Richard of Clare, survived her husband for 
twenty-two years. For most of that time she was a corrodian at St. Osyth's Priory, 
Chich, Essex.[4]

Their known children are:
Aubrey de Vere, 1st Earl of Oxford (married 1. Beatrice, countess of Guisnes, 2. 
Eufemia, 3. Agnes of Essex)
Rohese de Vere, Countess of Essex (married 1. Geoffrey de Mandeville, 1st Earl of 
Essex, 2. Payn de Beauchamp)
Robert (married 1. Matilda de Furnell, 2. Margaret daughter of Baldwin Wake)
Alice "of Essex" (married 1. Robert of Essex, 2. Roger fitz Richard)
Geoffrey (married 1. widow of Warin fitz Gerold, 2. Isabel de Say)
Juliana Countess of Norfolk (married 1. Hugh Bigod, 1st Earl of Norfolk, 2. Walkelin 
Maminot)
William de Vere, Bishop of Hereford (1186-1198)Gilbert, prior of the Knights Hospitaller 
in England (1195-1197)
a daughter (name unknown) who married Roger de Ramis.

Parents
DE VERE Aubrey (Alberic) (ABT 1039 - 1112)
DE GUISNES (GAND) Beatrice (ABT 1040 - )

Siblings
DE VERE Roheise (Roesia) (ABT 1070 - )
DE VERE Alice (ABT 1075 - )
DE VERE ----- (ABT 1080 - )
DE VERE Aubrey II (ABT 1082 - 15 May 1141)

Marriage To DE CLARE Adeliza (ABT 1079 - ABT 1163)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
DE CLARE Gilbert Fitz Richard (ABT 1060 - ABT 1115)
DE CLERMONT Adeliza (ABT 1061 - )

Children by DE CLARE Adeliza ABT 1079 - ABT 1163
DE VERE Juliana (ABT 1108 - 1200)
DE VERE Rohese (ABT 1110 - AFT 21 Oct 1166)
DE VERE Aubrey (ABT 1115 - 26 Dec 1194)
DE VERE Robert (ABT 1124 - 26 Dec 1194)
DE VERE Alice (ABT 1125 - AFT 1185)

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