Aubrey II. De Vere
Aubrey II. De Vere ( lat. Alberic [us] de Ver , * around 1080 ; † May 15, 1141 was the eldest surviving son of Aubrey I de Vere , who came to England in 1066 with William the Conqueror .
Aubrey II served as sheriff in numerous counties and as justiciar under Kings Henry I and Stephen . In 1133 he was entrusted by Henry I with the office of Lord Great Chamberlain after his predecessor Robert Malet had been deposed and expropriated. The chronicler William of Malmesbury reports that Aubrey represented King Stephen in 1139 when he was called to a church council to testify about the confiscation of castles from Bishop Roger of Salisbury . In 1141 he was killed in a riot in London. Aubrey II. De Vere was buried in the Colne Priory family mausoleum.
Aubrey II. De Vere married Adeliza / Alice, daughter of Gilbert de Clare , Lord of Clare and Tonbridge . Your known children are:
- Aubrey de Vere, 1st Earl of Oxford
- Rohese de Vere ∞ Geoffrey de Mandeville, 1st Earl of Essex
- Robert
- Alice "of Essex;"
- Geoffrey;
- Juliana, Countess of Norfolk;
- William de Vere , Bishop of Hereford ;
- Gilbert, Prior of the Order of St. John in England;
- Daughter; ∞ Roger de Ramis.
His eldest son, Aubrey III. was later appointed Earl of Oxford , he and his descendants held the master’s office of their father, which was upgraded to Lord Great Chamberlain , until the family died out in the male line in 1703.
literature
- Davis, et al .: Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum . Oxford University Press, 1913-68
- George Edward Cokayne : The Complete Peerage , V. 10. St. Catherine Press, 1910-58.
Footnotes
- ↑ RaGena C. DeAragon: Vere, Aubrey (II) de. In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004
- ^ Davis, et al., V. 2.
- ^ Cokayne, The Complete Peerage, v.10
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | De Vere, Aubrey II. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | De Ver, Albericus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English nobleman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1080 |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 15, 1141 |