Rohese de Vere

Rohese de Vere (also Rose ; married Rohese de Mandeville, Countess of Essex and Rohese de Beauchamp ) († 1166 ) was an Anglo-Norman noblewoman.

Origin and marriage to Geoffrey de Mandeville

Rohese de Vere came from the Anglo-Norman family de Vere . She was a daughter of Aubrey II de Vere and his wife Alice de Clare . She first married the magnate Geoffrey de Mandeville, 1st Earl of Essex , who was of considerable importance at the beginning of the war of succession to the throne, the so-called anarchy . She had at least two sons with him:

Geoffrey de Mandeville, 2nd Earl of Essex († 1166)
William de Mandeville, 3rd Earl of Essex († 1189)

Marriage to Payn de Beauchamp

Presumably shortly after the death of her husband in 1144, she married Payn de Beauchamp , a minor baron from Bedfordshire , for the second time . She had several children with him, including:

Simon de Beauchamp (around 1145–1206 / 07)

Around 1150, Rohese founded the Gilbertine Priory Chicksands in Bedfordshire. In 1166 the body of Geoffrey de Mandeville, one of Rohese's sons from their first marriage, was to be buried in Walden Abbey in Essex , a monastery founded by his father. When Rohese learned of the death, she went out with armed henchmen and seized the body to have it buried in Chicksands. The next morning, however, Geoffrey's followers took hold of the body again and finally brought it to Walden. Thereupon Rohese seized the equipment of Geoffrey's private chapel and brought it to Chicksands.

Rohese not only promoted Chicksands, but also supported her son Simon in founding Newnham Priory near Bedford .

Web links

Kathryn Faulkner: Rohese [Rose] de Beauchamp (d. 1166). 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
Rohese de Vere on thepeerage.com , accessed on August 21, 2018.

Individual evidence

↑ C. Gore Chambers, GH Fowler: The Beauchamps, barons of Bedford . In: The Publications of the Bedfordshire Historical Record Society , 1 (1913), p. 9

personal data
SURNAME	Vere, Rohese de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Vere, Rose de; Mandeville, Rohese de, Countess of Essex; Beauchamp, Rohese de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Anglo-Norman nobles
DATE OF BIRTH	12th Century
DATE OF DEATH	1166

[1] C. Gore Chambers, GH Fowler: The Beauchamps, barons of Bedford . In: The Publications of the Bedfordshire Historical Record Society , 1 (1913), p. 9