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• Hij is geboren in het jaar 1038 in Ver, Cotentin, Cotes-du-Nord, France.
• (Event) in het jaar 1105 in Founded Earl's Colne Priory.
• Hij is overleden in het jaar 1112 in Earls Colne, Halstead, Essex, hij was toen 74 jaar oud.
• Hij is begraven in het jaar 1112 in Colne Priory, Essex.
• Een kind van ALPHONSO de VERE en KATHERINE de FLANDERS

Gezin van AUBREY de VERE I

Hij is getrouwd met BEATRICE de GHENT.

Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 1079 te Castle Hedingham, Essex, hij was toen 41 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Roger de VERE  1084-????
2. William de VERE  1092-????
3. Robert de VERE  1086-????
4. ALICE de VERE  1089-???? 
5. Geoffrey de VERE  1080-1104
6. AUBREY de VERE  1082-1141 

Notities over AUBREY de VERE I

Aubrey (Albericus) de Vere (died circa 1112-1113) was a tenant-in-chief in England of William the Conqueror in 1086, as well as a tenant of Geoffrey de Montbray, bishop of Coutances and of Count Alan, lord of Richmond. A much later source named his father as Alphonsus.

Biography
His origins are obscure and various regions have been proposed for his birthplace, from Zeeland to Brittany. He may have been Norman, possibly from the region of Ver in the Cotentin peninsula of western Normandy, but the evidence is such that no certainty is possible. Late medieval sources put forward claims of descent from Charlemagne through the Counts of Flanders or Guînes. In fact, the only connection of the Veres of England with Guînes in Flanders, was through a short-lived marriage; Aubrey I's grandson Aubrey de Vere III married Beatrice, heiress to the county of Guînes, in the 12th century (but there was no issue and their marriage was annulled).

In Domesday Book, he is listed as "Aubrey the chamberlain" and "Aubrey the queen's chamberlain" as well as Aubrey de Vere. He and his wife held land in nine counties in 1086. Both were accused of some unauthorized land seizures. Aubrey's estates were valued at approximately £300, putting him in roughly the middle ranks of the post-conquest barons of England in terms of landed wealth. He served King Henry I in the first decade of his reign as a chamberlain and local justiciar in the counties of Berkshire and Northamptonshire.

Sometime in or before 1104, Aubrey's eldest son Geoffrey fell ill and was tended at Abingdon Abbey in Berkshire by the royal physician, Abbot Faritius. The youth appeared to have recovered but suffered a relapse, died, and was buried at the abbey. His parents then founded a cell of Abingdon on land they donated for the purpose: Colne Priory, Essex. Within a year of the formal dedication in March 1111, Aubrey I joined that community and died soon. His youngest son William died not long after his father. Both were buried at the priory, establishing it as the Vere family mausoleum. Aubrey de Vere II then succeeded to his father's estates.

Aubrey I was married by 1086. As his spouse's name is recorded as Beatrice in 1104 and Beatrice is named as the mother of his eldest son, she was almost certainly his wife in 1086. Beatrice attended the formal ceremony for the founding of Earl's Colne Priory. Besides sons Geoffrey, Aubrey II, and William mentioned above, the couple's children included Roger and Robert.

Estates
The principal estates held by Aubrey de Vere in 1086: Castle Hedingham, Beauchamp [Walter], Great Bentley, Great Canfield, Earls Colne, [White] Colne, and Dovercourt, Essex; Aldham, Belstead, Lavenham, and Waldingfield, Suffolk; Castle Camps, Hildersham, Silverley, and Wilbraham, Cambridgeshire. He possessed houses and acreage in Colchester and a house in Winchester. As tenant of Geoffrey bishop of Coutances, he held Kensington, Middlesex; Scaldwell and Wadenhoe, Northamptonshire. Of the barony of Count Alan of Brittany, he held the manors of Beauchamp Roding, Canfield, and West Wickham, Essex. His wife held Aldham, Essex, in her own right of Odo bishop of Bayeux. The couple both were accused by Domesday jurors of expansion into Little Maplestead, Essex. Aubrey's seizures or questionable right of possession to estates included Manuden, Essex; Great Hemingford, Huntingdonshire; and Swaffham, Cambridgeshire. (Counties given are those of Domesday Book.)
SOURCE: Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey_de_Vere_I

Most probably a Norman who derived his name from Ver in the Contentin. The Conqueror granted him, with other lands, the great estates of Wulfwine (an English thegn) in Essex, Suffolk, and Cambridgeshire. He was a staunch supporter of the Free Church in Scotland, and devoted much of his time to religious and philanthropic work. He appears as "Aubrey the Chamberlain" in royal charter dated 1084. In 1086 he held in chief 14 estates in Essex, 9 estates in Suffolk, 7 in Cambridgeshire, and 2 in Huntingdonshire, as well as Kensington in Middlesex, and various other lands. He made Castle Hedingham in Essex the seat of his barony. He also served as Sheriff of Berkshire on two occasions. Upon the dying request of his eldest son, William (before 1106), he gave Abingdon Abbey his church of Kensington, and later founded Colne Priory in Essex.
Source: www.geneajourney.com

The family was founded in England by Aubrey 'Albericus' de Vers, who obtained vast estates from William the Conqueror in 1066. These estates were once the property of Ulwine, a great Saxon thane, and consisted of manors in the counties of Essex, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire and Middlesex which is now part of modern London. The de Veres were also Lords of Kensington in modern London and nearby Earl's Court is where they had their court-house. To this day there is a quite exclusive area of Kensington called de Vere Gardens.

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