1679–1742), courtier and Mistress of the Robes to Caroline, Princess of Wales Diana Beauclerk, Duchess of St Albans (née Lady Diana de Vere, c.Bridget de Vere (1584–1630/31), Countess of Berkshire.Robert de Vere, Duke of Ireland (1362–1392), ninth Earl of Oxford and a favourite of King Richard II.1230s), supposed by Robert Steele, probably mistakenly, to have been a de Vere William de Vere (1120–1198), Bishop of Hereford and author of a saint's life.
1110–1169 or after), founder of Chicksands Priory, Bedfordshire
1080–1141), Lord Great Chamberlain of England 1112), a tenant-in-chief in England of William the Conqueror Macaulay described the family as "the longest and most illustrious line of nobles that England has seen," and Tennyson's poem Lady Clara Vere de Vere made the name synonymous with ancient blood. įor many centuries the family was headed by the Earl of Oxford until the death of the 20th Earl in 1703.Īmong the offices the family held besides that of Lord Great Chamberlain was the forestership of Essex, and they founded the Essex religious houses of Colne Priory, Hatfield Broad Oak Priory, and Castle Hedingham Priory. His grandson Aubrey III became Earl of Oxford in the reign of King Stephen, but while his earldom had been granted by the Empress Matilda and eventually recognised by Stephen, it was not until January 1156 that it was formally recognised by Henry II and he began to receive the third penny of justice (one-third of the revenue of the shire court) from Oxfordshire. His son and heir Aubrey II became Lord Great Chamberlain of England, an hereditary office, in 1133. The family's Norman founder in England, Aubrey (Albericus) de Vere, appears in Domesday Book (1086) as the holder of a large fief in Essex, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, and Huntingdonshire. The House of de Vere were an English aristocratic family who derived their surname from Ver (department Manche, canton Gavray), in Lower Normandy, France. The family's coat of arms on a sign in the village of Earls Colne, Essex
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