VERE, Baron Robert de^[1]

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• Name	VERE, Robert de
  Prefix	Baron
  Birth	1164	Hatfield, Hertsfordshire, England
  Christening	1164
  Gender	Male
  Burial	Oct 1221	Cöln, Cambridgeshire, England
  Death	25 Oct 1221	Cöln, Cambridgeshire, England
  WAC	12 Feb 1936	ARIZO
  _TAG	Temple
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  Person ID	I32596	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

  Father	VERE, Earl Aubrey de ,   b. 1115, England Englandd. 26 Dec 1194, Halstead, Essex, England (Age 79 years)
  Mother	ESSEX, Countess Lucia ,   b. 1140, Essex, Norfolk, England Essex, Norfolk, Englandd. 1212, Chelmsford, Essex, England (Age 72 years)
  Marriage	1163	Essex, England   [2]
  Family ID	F18322	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	BOLBEC, Isabelle ,   b. 1164, Hatfield, Hertsfordshire, England Hatfield, Hertsfordshire, Englandd. 3 Feb 1245, Oxfordshire, England (Age 81 years)
  Marriage	1184	Essex, England   [3]
  Children	1 son and 2 daughters
  1. VERE, Alice de ,   b. 1186, Hatfield, Hertsfordshire, England Hatfield, Hertsfordshire, England   2. VERE, Eleanor de ,   b. 1188, Essex, England Essex, Englandd. 1274, Great Birch, Cambridgeshire, England (Age 86 years) + 3. VERE, Earl Hugh IV ,   b. 1190, Hatfield, Hertsfordshire, England Hatfield, Hertsfordshire, Englandd. 23 Dec 1263, England (Age 73 years)
  Family ID	F18541	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

• Notes

  Descent from King Edward I, Alfred the Great, William the Conqueror, Knights of the Garter and from Fourteen Sureties for the Magna Charta of AD 1215. - Robert de Vere the Surety, a record of whose ancestry and achievements at pg 129, was hereditary Lord Great Chamberlain of England and 8th in descent from King Hugh Capet, pages 184, 421 and 424. He died 25 Octobe 1221 having married Isabel Bolebec. He was elected one of the twenty-five barons who were to ensure the King's adherence to the terms of Magna Carta, and as such was excommunicated by Pope Innocent III. He served as a King's justice 1220-1221. The principal residence of the de VERES was Castle Headingham. The keep still stands sentry guard over the River Colne in the North of Essex, probably erected by Aubrey de Vere, who died in 1194. The Headingham keep ranks with that of Rochester as the finest of the square keeps in England. Oxford Castle was the seat of the Earls de Vere. It now consists of little more than a Norman tower which stands inside the walls of a county jail. It was here that King Stephen laid siege to Matilda in 1141. She escaped by a rope ladder fashioned from bed sheets during the night and, fleeing, found refuge at Wallingford. Oxford Castle is thought to be the oldest in all England. The Norman structure was built in 1071 by Robert d'Oilly. From what is left of it we can conclude that it was originally a pre-Norman motte and bailey fort. After the 1071 rebuilding, alterations were made by Henry II, between 1165 and 1173. He added the houses inside the shell keep, and also the well. He presumably built the diagonal keep on the motte, the foundations of which were discovered in the 18th Century. ROBERT de VERE, the Surety, and Crusader, born after 1164, became heir to his brother, Aubrey de Vere, who died without issue before September of 1214, and who was reputed to be one of the "evil councillors" of King John. Although he was hereditary lord great Chamberlain of the kingdom, Robert pursued a different course in politics from that of his brother, and became one of the principal Barons in arms against King John, a party to that covenant which resigned the custody of the City and Tower of London to the Barons, and one of those excommunicated by the Pope. In the beginning of the reign of King Henry III, after he had made his peace with that young monarch following the Battle of Lincoln, Robert was received into his favor, and was appointed one of the judges in the Court of King's Bench, but he died only a few months afterward, 25~ October 1221, and was buried in the Priory of Hatfield, Broad Oak, in Essex. His wife was Isabel, who died 3 February 1248, daughter of Hugh, second Baron de Bolebec in Northumberland.

  
  

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  [S72] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (TM), (June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998). [S64] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index. Lucia Essex; Female; Birth: About 1125; Father: Henry de Essex; Mother: Cecely; Spouse: Aubrey de Vere; Marriage: 1163 , Essex, England; No source information is available. Record submitted after 1991 by a member of the LDS Church. Search performed using PAF Insight on 27 Nov 2004 [S64] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index. Isabel BOLEBEC; Female; Birth: About 1164; Father: Walter BOLEBEC; Mother: Sibil de VESEY; Spouse: Robert de Vere; Marriage: 1184 , Essex, England; No source information is available. Record submitted after 1991 by a member of the LDS Church. Search performed using PAF Insight on 27 Nov 2004