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  • Name VERE, Ralph de 
    Birth 1168  Hatfield, Hertsfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
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    Death Oct 1214  England Find all individuals with events at this location 
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    Person ID I32616  Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
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    Father VERE, Earl Aubrey de ,   b. 1115, England Find all individuals with events at this locationEnglandd. 26 Dec 1194, Halstead, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years) 
    Mother ESSEX, Countess Lucia ,   b. 1140, Essex, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this locationEssex, Norfolk, Englandd. 1212, Chelmsford, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 72 years) 
    Marriage 1163  Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Family ID F18322  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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    • DEATH: Also shown as Died Bef Oct 1214



      Ralph de Vere was either a younger son of Aubrey de Vere III. and Lucia Abrincis, or his second son, who lost his right to the Earldom of Oxford as a result of opposing Henry II, the earldom passing to his younger brother, Robert.

      It appears that Ralph de Vere is the first of the name recorded in Scotland. He was taken prisoner along with Richard the Lion in 1174; he later witnessed a charter by King William I. of Scotland, sometime between 1174 and 1184. During the same period he gifted a bovate of land in Sprouston, Roxburgh, to the Abbey of Kelso; his brother, Robert de Vere, was a witness to this charter.

      The Weirs of Blackwood, Lanarkshire, claim their descent from this Ralph de Vere. n.b. The Weir succession from Ralph de Vere to Rothaldus Weir of Blackwood is fully detailed in the charters of Kelso Abbey. (See Burke's Landed Gentry of Ireland, pp. 475-476, 1899. See George Vere Irving, The Upper Ward of Lanarkshire, 1864)

      Ralph de Vere was a follower of Conan IV., Duke of Brittany, who held claim to the English throne as a great-grandson of Henry I. When Henry II. conquered Brittany, Conan and his followers took refuge in Scotland, Conan marrying the sister of King William I. of Scotland. Ralph de Vere was awarded vast estates in Lanarkshire.

      (SOURCE: http://www.freewebs.com/weirfamilyorigins/)

  • Sources 
    1. [S72] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (TM), (June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998).

    2. [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


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