Aubrey de Vere

   Another name for Aubrey was Alberic de Vere.

  General Notes:

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 246D:24-25 Adeyza or Adelaide de Clermont and Gilbert Fitz Richard were the parents of Adeliza (or Alice) de Clare who married Aubrey de Vere II. Aubrey was lain in London 15 May 1141, of Great Addington & Drayton, was the Sheriff of London and Middlesex and Justice and Master Chamberlain of England. Aubrey de Vere was the son of another Aubrey de Vere and his wife Beatrice.
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  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Aubrey de Vere was almost certainly a Norman who derived his name from Vere in the Côtentin and probably had connections with the adjoining duchy of Brittany. He was born probably before 1040. The Conqueror granted him, with other lands, the great estates of an English thegn named Wulfwine in Essex, Suffolk, and Cambridge.

In 1084 he attested a royal charter for Lessay as Aubrey the Chamberlain. In 1086 he held in chief 14 estates in Essex, with 2 houses and 3 acres in Colchester, 9 estates Suffolk, 7 in Cambs, and 2 in Hunts. He also held Kensington in Middlesex and two properties in Northants of the Bishop of Coutances, land in Hunts of the Abbey of Ramseyand land in two places in Essex of Count Alan of Brittany.

The head of his barony was at (Castle) Hedingham in Essex, where he had planted a vineyard. It is usually assumed that he is identical with, and not the father of, the Aubrey de Vere who attested a writ at Westminster (September 1102 to Easter 1103) and a charter for Abingdon (1101-06). Not later than 1106, he was acting as sheriff of Berkshire, being styled simply Aubrey.

Within the next few years he was acting as a justice in Northants, being styled Aubrey the Chamberlain, and as sheriff of Berkshire, being styled Aubrey de Berkshire. At the dying request of his eldest son, not later than 1106, he gave Abingdon Abbey his church of Kensington with its appurtenances and 2 hides and 1 yardland; but as he resided mostly in Essex, he founded a priory at Earls Colne as a cell of Abingdon. He seems to have held 1 1/2 knights' fees of the Abbey of St. Edmund. He married Beatrice, whose parentage is unknown. He died before 1113 (almost certainly in 1112), at Colne Priory, and was buried with his wife in the church there.

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, (Oxford), Vol. X, pp. 194-195

• Background Information. ⁷²²
Aubrey de Vere was given lands of the English tegn Wulfwine held of Ramsey Abbey in north Essex and south Suffolk and Cambridge in or soon after 1066 by William the conqueror, and was assumed to be the tenant-in-chief of 1086. He died in 1112 and was buried with his wife at Colne Priory. His wife was named Beatrice. The children that are named in Cokayne's Complete Peerage were:

Geoffrey, after he was cured of a serious illness by Abbot Farice, he instigated the gift of Kensington Church to Abingdon, but he then died of a second illness.
Aubrey, slain in London, 15 May 1141, and married Alice de Clare.
Roger, named with his brothers Aubrey, Robert and William as confirming their parents' gifts to Colne Priory
Robert
William, buried under his father's tomb

~Boyer's Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, pp. 250-251

• Background Information. ¹⁹²
Alberic, or Aubrey of Vere, near Coutances in Normandy, recorded as "Albericus de Ver" in the Domesday Survey, was recorded in the survey as holding lands in Middlesex, Cambride, Huntington, Essex, and Suffolk. Alberic founded Colne Priory, which he retired to in 1088, and later died there. His wife is given as Beatrix, said to have been the half sister of King William. [Harl. MSS, 245]

~Vere Pedigree, Kensington Picturesque & Historical, p. 56

• Web Reference: Abrey de Vere I from Wikipedia.
In Domesday Book, Aubrey I and his wife held land in six counties in 1086. Both were accused therein of some unauthorized land seizures. [Domesday Book] Aubrey's estates held of the king were valued at approximately £300, putting him in roughly the middle ranks of the post-conquest barons in terms of landed wealth. [Corbett, Cambridge History of the Middle Ages]

Aubrey married Beatrix ¹⁴¹.^,722