Robert de Vere († 1250)

Robert de Vere († February 8, 1250 in al-Mansura ) was an English crusader in the 13th century.

He belonged to the 200 strong English contingent of the crusade of the French King Louis IX. (Saint Louis) to Egypt ( Sixth Crusade ), which, led by William Longespée of Salisbury , joined the crusade army in Damiette in October 1249 . De Vere served William Longespée of Salisbury as standard bearer and was killed with him on February 8, 1250 in the fateful attack by Count Robert of Artois on the city of al-Mansura .

Whether his body was later, like that of Salisbury, from the Mameluken to Louis IX. was passed is unclear. Nevertheless, there is a grave for Robert de Vere in the Church of Sudborough in Northamptonshire, including a reclining figure depicting him as a knight with a cross on the shield, probably a Saint George's cross .

The relationship between Robert de Vere and the de Vere family , who had been the Earls of Oxford since the 12th century , cannot be determined either. It is possible that he was a descendant of that Robert de Vere, a younger son of Aubrey II. De Vere , who was wealthy in Northamptonshire and also had offspring.

literature

• Christopher Tyerman: England and the Crusades, 1095-1588 . University of Chicago Press, 1996, ISBN 0226820130 , pp. 109-110.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Matthäus Paris , Chronica Majora , ed. by Henry Richard Luard in: Rolls Series 57.5 (1880), pp. 76 and 148
2. ^ William Lisle Bowles, John Gough Nichols: Annals and antiquities of Lacock abbey: in the county of Wilts (1835), pp. 262-263

Web link

• Excerpts from the Chronica Majora by Matthew Paris, translated into English from the Rolls Series edition by Helen J. Nicholson (1989), year 1250, pp. 147-148