Hugh de Vere Earl of Oxford

  General Notes:

Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, 8th Edition, 267:26 ¹⁶⁰

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Hugh de Vere, Earl of Oxford, Hereditary Master Chamberlain of England, son and heir, born sometime around 1210. He was in his mother's custody until 1231, when he did homage on 23 October. On 22 Nov 1232 he was given respite until Pentecost from being knighted. On 22 May 1233, he was knighted by the King at Gloucester. On 24 May Henry girt him with the sword of the Earldom of Oxford and directed the sheriff to let him have what he ought to have in the name of the Earldom of Oxford as his predecessors had had.

On 21 February 1233/4 he obtained royal letters to his knights and free tenants for an aid to pay his debts. On 2 Sep 1234. he was one of the nobles forbidden to go to a tournament. At the Coronation of Queen Eleanor, 1236, he officiated as Master Chamberlain of England and as such performed the office of the Ewery. On 12 Feb 1236/7, Hugh and his mother were granted protection while on pilgrimage beyond the seas. In 1244 the Abbey of Ramsey chose him as one of its 4 knights summoned to Newcastle for service against Scotland, but Hugh sent William de Hulecote in his stead.

In February 1245 he did homage for his mother's lands, and in September he was with the King in Wales. In 1246 he was one of the Barons who protested to the Pope against the oppression of the realm; and in 1248 he was in the Parliament held in London. On 24 June 1249 he bought from the Bishop of London the wardship of the land with the marriage of Alice de Sanford, for his son and heir. On 13 May 1253 he was present in Westminster Hall at the excommunication of persons violating the provisions of Magna Carta. In 1258 he was elected by the Barons as one of the Committee of 24, and in October 1259 he was elected to fill a vacancy in the Committee of Twelve which was to treat with the Council.

He was summoned to serve with the arrny against Llewelyn in 1260 and 1263. He had various grants of weekly markets and yearly fairs. He founded a hospital at Castle Hedingham circa 1250, and was a benefactor to Colchester Abbey and Hatfield Priory.

He married, after 11 February 1222/3, Hawise, daughter of Saher de Qunicy, 1st Ear; pf Womcjester, by Margaret, younger sister and coheir of Robert Fitz Pernel, 4th Earl of Leicester. He died before 23 December 1263, and was buried at Earls Colne. His wife survived him, died 3 February (year unknown), and was buried at Earls Colne.

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, (Oxford), Vol. X, pp. 213-15

Hugh married Hawise de Quincy, daughter of Saher de Quincy 1st Earl of Winchester and Margaret de Beaumont, after 11 Feb 1222.¹⁴¹ (Hawise de Quincy died on 3 Feb.)