Aubrey de Vere

   Another name for Aubrey was Alberic de Vere.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Aubrey de Vere was almost certainly a Norman who derived his name from Ver in the Côtentin and probably had connexions with the adjoining duchy of Brittany. He was born probably before 1040. The Conqueror granted him, with other lands, the great estates of an English thegn named Wulfwine in Essex, Suffolk, and Cambridge.

In 1084 he attested a royal charter for Lessay as Aubrey the Chamberlain. In 1086 he held in chief 14 estates in Essex, with 2 houses and 3 acres in Colchester, 9 estates Suffolk, 7 in Cambs, and 2 in Hunts. He also held Kensington in Middlesex and two properties in Northants of the Bishop of Coutances, land in Hunts of the Abbey of Ramseyand land in two places in Essex of Count Alan of Brittany.

The head of his barony was at (Castle) Hedingham in Essex, where he had planted a vineyard. It is usually assumed that he is identical with, and not the father of, the Aubrey de Vere who attested a writ at Westminster (September 1102 to Easter 1103) and a charter for Abingdon (1101-06). Not later than 1106, he was acting as sheriff of Berkshire, being styled simply Aubrey.

Within the next few years he was acting as a justice in Northants, being styled Aubrey the Chamberhiln, and as sheriff of Berkshire, being styled Aubrey de Berkshire. At the dying request of his eldest son, not later than 1106, he gave Abingdon Abbey his church of Kensington with its appurtenances and 2 hides and 1 yardland; but as he resided mostly in Essex, he founded a priory at Earls Colne as a cell of Abingdon. He seems to have held 1 1/2 knights' fees of the Abbey of St. Edmund. He married Beatrice, whose parentage is unknown. He died before 1113 (almost certainly in 1112), at Colne Priory, and was buried with his wife in the church there.

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, (Oxford), Vol. X, pp. 194-195

• Background Information. ⁷²²
Aubrey de Vere was given lands of the English tegn Wulfwine held of Ramsey Abbey in north Essex and south Suffolk and Cambridge in or soon after 1066 by William the conqueror, and was assumed to be the tenant-in-chief of 1086. He died in 1112 and was buried with his wife at Colne Priory. His wife was named Beatrice. The children that are named in Cokayne's Complete Peerage were:

Geoffrey, after he was cured of a serious illness by Abbot Farice, he instigated the gift of Kensington Church to Abingdon, but he then died of a second illness.
Aubrey, slain in London, 15 May 1141, and married Alice de Clare.
Roger, named with his brothers Aubrey, Robert and William as confirming their parents' gifts to Colne Priory
Robert
William, buried under his father's tomb

~Boyer's Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, pp. 250-251

• Web Reference: Earls of Oxford.

Aubrey married Béatrix. ¹⁴¹.^,722