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de Vere, Earl of Oxford

Site of Colne Priory, at Earls Colne, Essex.
Burial place of de Vere.
From old map. Surveyed: 1876. Published: 1881.

Aubrey de Vere.
He was awarded the manor of Hedingham by William the Conqueror before 1086.
Listed at Hedingham in Domesday Book 1086.
Founded Colne Priory, at Earls Colne, Essex, in or before 1111.
He died c.1112-1113.
He was bur Colne Priory (which became burial place of de Vere for generations).
He had issue:

Aubrey de Vere.
He mar Alice de Clare [descendant of Charlemagne].
He was killed by a mob in London in May 1141 during The Anarchy (civil war 1138 to 1153).
He was bur Colne Priory.
He had issue:

Aubrey de Vere, 1st Earl of Oxford.
He was cr Earl in July 1141, shortly after his father's killing.
He mar 3rdly to Agnes of Essex.
He died 26 December 1194. He was bur Colne Priory.
He had issue by 3rd wife:

1. Robert de Vere, 3rd Earl of Oxford.

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Sources yet to be consulted

• OXFORD in [Complete Peerage]
• The de Veres of Castle Hedingham, Verily Anderson, 1993.

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Things to do

• Colne Priory (burial place of de Vere) is apparently now cleared, but surviving tombs, some with effigies, were removed in the 1930s to St Stephen's Chapel near Bures, Suffolk.

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• Earls of Oxford

• de Vere and p.2 by Peter Barns-Graham

• Family tree of Robert C. Bradley
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