whom he had no issue, he some five years or so Inter divorced.(a)[1] He m. secondly Euphemia, da, of Sir William de Cantelupe. By her, also, he had no issue. He m. finally, before 1163, Lucy,(b)[2] da, and h. of Henry de Essex. He d. 1194.(c)[3]
II. 1194.2. Aubrey (De Vere), Earl of Oxford, and Great Chamberlain, s, and h. by last wife, b. 1163; suc. to the peerage 1194; paid a fine to King John, 1201-05, of 200 marks for confirmation in the Earldom and the receipt of the third penny;(d)[4] Sheriff of Essex and Hertfordshire, 1208-13; P.C., 1210, being considered one of King John's "Evil Counsellors;" Commander in the King's army in Ireland, 1210. He m. Adelisa, da, of Roger (Bigod), 2d Earl of Norfolk. He d. s.p. (before 1 Sep.) 1214, and was bur. at Colne Priory.
III. 1214.3. Robert (De Vere), Earl of Oxford, and Great Chamberlain, br. and h., b. about 1170; suc. to the peerage. 1214; was one of the 25 Barons, Guardians of Magna Charta, June 1215; Judge in the King's Court and Ch. Justice itinerant in Hertfordshire, 1220. He m. Isabel, da, and h. (or coheir) of Walter de Bolbec, of Bolebec,(e)[5] in Whitchurch, Bucks. He d. 25 Oct. 1221, and was bur. at Hatfield Broadoak, Essex.(f)[6] His widow m. Henry de Novant, and d. 3 Feb. 1245.(g)[7]
IV. 1221.4. Hugh (de Vere), Earl of Oxford, and Great Chamberlain, s. and h., b. about 1210; suc. to the peerage in Oct. 1221, having seisin of his lands in Essex, Suffolk, and Cambridgeshire, 23 Oct. 1231; knighted by Henry III., 22 May 1233; served as Chamberlain at the Coronation of the Queen Consort Eleanor, 26 Jan. 1236; did homage for his mother's lands at Bolebec, &c., Feb. 1245. He m. after 11 Feb. 1223, Hawise, da. of Saher (de Qunicy), Earl of Winchester, by Margaret, da, of Robert (de Beaumont), Earl of Leicester, He d. Dec. 1263 and was bur. at Colne Priory. His wife or widow d. 3 Feb. [—](h)[8]
V. 1263.5. Robert (de Vere), Earl of Oxford and Great Chamberlain, a and h.; b. 1240; suc. to the peerage. Dec. 1263 and did homage 5 March 1263/4. Taking part with the Barons in Simmon de Montfort's insurrection he was knighted by him, 14 May 1264, and sum. to his parl. 24 Dec. 1264. He was taken prisoner a few days before the battle of Evesham (4 Aug 1265) and
- ↑ (a) She m., probably between 1144 and 1146, Baldwin of Ardres, Claimant for the Comté of Guisnes, but died a few days afterwards, when, the next heir, Arnold de Gand succeeded thereto. See Nichols's "Earldom of Oxford."
- ↑ (b) "There is preserved a most curious parchment roll, sent by the Prioress of Hedingham to a number of religions houses, requesting their prayers for this Countess Lucy, as founder of Hedingham Priory." [J. H. Round.]
- ↑ (c) "The inscription on his tomb, as given by Werver, calls him Earl of Ghisnes and 1st Earl of Oxford," says Courthope, who (holding apparently, that the descent of the De Veres in the male line from the Counts of Ghisnes was genuine) adds, as his explanation thereof, "he married to his first wife, Beatrix, his kinswoman, Countess of Ghisnes, in her own right, but was very soon divorced, and the title of Earl of Ghienes thus given to him might have been derived through this source, although it is more probable that it was given to him in right of his own descent; for not only were his wife and her large possessions abandoned by him but she had been dead fifty years."
- ↑ (d) "Rot. Pip. Easex," (
symbol characters) John, as quoted in 'Nichols's "Earldom of Oxford."
- ↑ (e) See vol. i, p. 367, note "b," sub "Bolebec."
- ↑ (f) With this epitaph, says Vincent, "Sir Robert Vere the first, and third Earle of Oxford, &c. His arms depicted on his shield or pavice in gold, a quarter of France seme, charged with a molet, argent." He appears, however, to have been the only one of his race who introduced the cont of France into his coat armour.
- ↑ (g) In her right her descendants assumed as a peerage title (tho' no peerage of that name had previously existed) the style of Lord Bolebec which from 1462 to 1625 appears to have been magnified into Viscount Bolebec.
- ↑ (h) Coll. Top. et Gen., vol. ii, p. 281.
