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Aubrey (Latin Albericus) de Ver,[1] was a Domesday (1086) sub-tenant of the Breton Count Alan Rufus (Alan the Red), who was also a tenant in chief in his own right.
According to Keats-Rohan he was of little note in England before 1100, and possibly did not spend most time in England.[2]
Later in life, after 1100, Keats-Rohan says he was "Active in Berkshire in the early years of Henry I's reign, he was either or possibly both a justiciar or sheriff".[2]
Complete Peerage's Appendix on "The Early Veres" raises a question about whether there was only one Aubrey:[3]
It also mentions that: "Under the Conqueror Aubrey’s only activity known seems to have been the planting of vineyards".
A date of birth of 16 Dec 1030 has been removed from his profile for lack of evidence.
There are new proposals which conflict with older standard ideas.
Aubrey appears in the Domesday survey of 1086 in several counties. The feudal barony which his family continued to hold is referred to as the barony of Hedingham (Essex). Complete Peerage cites Round (VCH Essex Vol.1) to say: "That Aubrey had a residence at Hedingham is implied by the existence there of a vineyard and of the 'small holdings on a large manor in the hands of foreigners' ".
Keats-Rohan approves of the judgement of Complete Peerage's "Early Vere" appendix.[1]
As mentioned above, Keats-Rohan believes Aubrey's wife was from the Cotentin. She also notes that she appears under her own name as a land holder in Domesday Book. She held land under the bishops of Coutances and Bayeux.[5]
We do not know her name Beatrix from Domesday but from the foundation charter for Colne priory. (Note the possibility of multiple wives over the long span of years.)
It has also been said that he married Beatrice, half sister of King William. However, there is little evidence to support this and much of the earlier life of Albericus and Beatrice is unknown.
Colne Priory at Earls Colne, Essex was a Benedictine priory, initially a dependent cell of Abingdon Abbey, Berkshire (now in Oxfordshire). It was founded by Aubrey de Vere I and his wife Beatrice in or before 1111. Their eldest son Geoffrey had died at Abingdon about seven or eight years earlier and was buried there.
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He died peacefully at Earl's Colne Priory.
Records indicate that he and many descendants were originally buried in Colne Priory, Earls Colne, Braintree District, Essex, England. But an e-mail received by Alton Rogers on February 29, 2008 from Robin King, Rector of Bures Parish Church stated "de Vere family memorials (tombs) are in St. Stephens Chapel, a mile from the centre of Bures village." The de Vere tombs were moved years ago from Colne Priory to St. Stephens in Bures which is in Suffolk on the Essex border a few miles northeast of Earls Colne.
St. Stephens Chapel, also known as Chapel Barn, was dedicated to St. Stephen on St. Stephen's Day 1218 by the Archbishop of Canterbury. It contains Earl of Oxford effigies, the only survivors of 21 tombs once found at Earls Colne Priory. They became ruined after the Reformation when the Priory was destroyed, only a shell remains today. Close inspection suggests effigy tombs and pieces from about 7 separate monuments originally found in a rock garden at Earls Colne Priory in the 1920's. The stone walled chapel with a steep thatched roof fell into disuse after the Reformation, and was converted into a hospital in 1739, before added extensions transformed it into cottages and then used again as a barn. In the 1930's it was restored to its present condition and re-consecrated as a chapel.
Tomb Inscription (15th century):
source needed Aubrey I, believed to have been on the first Crusade along with his son Aubrey II, was in battle on a dark night. Then ~
"God willing the safety of the Christians showed a white star ....... on the Christian host, which to every man's sight did light and arrest upon the standard of Aubrey de Vere, there shining excessively."
It was subsequently claimed that an angel leaned down and threw the star onto de Vere's standard.
The 500-Year DeVere Pedigree (used with permission) comes from the website of the DeVere Society, which is dedicated to the proposition that the works of Shakespeare were actually written by Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford. The image takes a couple of minutes to upload, but it's worth the wait.
Aubrey has been disconnected from Alphonsus de Vere and Katherine Flandre due to lack of evidence/sources for such. See Origins research above.
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Categories: Early Barony of Hedingham | Domesday Book | House of De Vere
The tomb description referred to is apparently dated to the 15th century or about 400 years after he died and can't be considered reliable evidence. William the Conqueror is only known to have 1 sister and her name isn't Beatrice.
Unless there is other sources provided there doesn't appear to be any reason to reattach De Vere-162 as father of this profile.
see also Tomb Description quoted in this Biography under Death and Burial.