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Biography of Aubrey de Vere 10th Earl of Oxford 1338-1400

Paternal Family Tree: Vere

Maternal Family Tree: Emmeline Riddlesford 1223-1276

On 25th July 1316 Robert Fitzpayn 3rd Baron Fitzpayn (age 16) and [his mother] Maud Badlesmere Countess of Oxford (age 8) were married.

In 1336 [his father] John de Vere 7th Earl of Oxford (age 23) and [his mother] Maud Badlesmere Countess of Oxford (age 27) were married. She by marriage Countess of Oxford. They were third cousin twice removed. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England.

Around 1338 Aubrey de Vere 10th Earl of Oxford was born to John de Vere 7th Earl of Oxford (age 25) and Maud Badlesmere Countess of Oxford (age 29).

On 24th January 1360 [his father] John de Vere 7th Earl of Oxford (age 47) died. He was buried at Colne Priory, Essex [Map]. His son [his brother] Thomas (age 24) succeeded 8th Earl of Oxford.

On 24th May 1366 [his mother] Maud Badlesmere Countess of Oxford (age 57) died.

In 1375 Aubrey de Vere 10th Earl of Oxford (age 37) was appointed Constable of Wallingford Castle.

In 1381 Aubrey de Vere 10th Earl of Oxford (age 43) was appointed Privy Council.

Before 15th August 1385 Aubrey de Vere 10th Earl of Oxford (age 47) and Alice Fitzwalter Countess of Oxford were married. She by marriage Countess of Oxford. He the son of John de Vere 7th Earl of Oxford and Maud Badlesmere Countess of Oxford. They were second cousin once removed. He a great x 5 grandson of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England.

On 15th August 1385 Richard de Vere 11th Earl of Oxford was born to Aubrey de Vere 10th Earl of Oxford (age 47) and Alice Fitzwalter Countess of Oxford. He married (1) 1399 Alice Holland Countess of Oxford, daughter of John Holland 1st Duke Exeter and Elizabeth Lancaster Duchess Exeter (2) 1406 Alice Sergeaux Countess Oxford and had issue.

On 22nd November 1392 Robert de Vere 1st Duke Ireland (age 30) was killed whilst hunting at Louvain [Map]. His uncle Aubrey (age 54) succeeded 10th Earl of Oxford.

Froissart Book 4 Chapter 88. These were the plans that had been concerted by many of the English, particularly the Londoners, for they hated the king (age 29), and several now repented they had checked the mobs which attacked London from the different counties of England; for they had determined, according to their confessions when put to death, to murder the king, the earl of Salisbury (age 46), the earl of Oxford (age 58), and the whole of the king's council. Had this been done, the kingdom would soon have found another head; and the citizens, with the consent of the country, and the aid of the duke of Gloucester (who took great pains to excite trouble and confusion), would have selected a fit person to wear the crown, and placed the government and kingdom in a different state to what it then was. Such were the secret murmurings of the citizens, and others of their party, in their private meetings, the whole of which was told to the king by his spy; and greater blame was laid on the duke of Gloucester for all this business than on any other person.

Before 1399 [his son] Richard de Vere 11th Earl of Oxford (age 13) and [his daughter-in-law] Alice Holland Countess of Oxford (age 6) were married. She the daughter of John Holland 1st Duke Exeter (age 46) and Elizabeth Lancaster Duchess Exeter (age 35). He the son of Aubrey de Vere 10th Earl of Oxford (age 60) and [his wife] Alice Fitzwalter Countess of Oxford. They were fifth cousins. He a great x 5 grandson of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England. She a great granddaughter of King Edward III of England.

On 15th February 1400 Aubrey de Vere 10th Earl of Oxford (age 62) died. His sonRichard (age 14) succeeded 11th Earl of Oxford. [his daughter-in-law] Alice Holland Countess of Oxford (age 8) by marriage Countess of Oxford.

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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.

In 1401 [his former wife] Alice Fitzwalter Countess of Oxford died.

Archaeologia Volume 22 Section XVI. The pryncesc desyrous to make peace betwyxt the cytezyns and the duke, sent unto London these knyghtes, the Lord Albred de Ver,d the L. Symon Burle,e the L. Lewes Clyfford,f requestyng them, that for love of her, & at her request, they wold make peace with the duke, and end such tumultes for the generall evill or myschefe which comonly followeth such sedytions. The cytezyns, with all reverence, made answeare, that they wold do for her honor what soever she had commanded, but yet they willest or enjoyned the knyghts that came, to tell the duke in words, that he suffer the Lord Byshop of Wynchester to stande to his answeare, and be judged by his peeres, because at that tyme he was an ecclesyastycall person of such aucthoryty, they wold not suffer so greate losse without answeare and processe of lawe, & suffer the Lord Peter de la Mar to answeare for hym self, & prove hym selfe not gyltye, or otherwyse, as he had deserved, after the custome of the lawes of the realme to recyve manyfest judgment; the thyrd they wold account a traytor wheresoever he should be founde. The afore sayed knyghtes, no otherwyse then they had heard of the sayed citizens, reported unto the duke with full mouth those thyngs which had ben enjoyned them, whereby they made the duke very wofull, for whereas they had spoken of a traytor, this sayed he they speak of me, and ytt is not credible that they speak this of him.

Note c. The Princess was Joan, the widow of the Black Prince, who in her youth had been celebrated for her beauty as the "Fair Maid of Kent." She had been twice married or affianced before she became the wife of Edward, whom she survived nine years. Her death in 1385 is related by Walsingham (p. 343) to have been caused by her grief at the refusal of her son Richard the Second to pardon his half brother John Holand, who nevertheless after his mother's death was restored to favour, and created Duke of Exeter. Dr. Lingard says that the Princess obtained her son's full pardon. But according to Knyghton (col. 2676), it was by the intervention of the Duke of Lancaster and other lords, that the king's pardon was procured, as well as the indulgence of the Earl of Stafford, whose eldest son Sir John Holand had killed in their servants' quarrel. An ancient portrait of the Princess is copied in Strutt's Regal and Ecclesiastical Antiquities, No. XXXV. In her will, printed in Nichols's Collection, she declares her firm adherence to the Catholic faith, though five of the most distinguished supporters of Wicliffe are in the list of her executors.

Note d. Sir Aubrey de Vere was uncle to Robert Earl of Oxford, afterwards Duke of Ireland, the favourite of Richard the Second.

Note e. Of Sir Simon Burley, and the proceedings against him in the following reign, when he was beheaded on Tower Hill, a particular account is given by Froissart, his personal friend. Some inaccuracies in Froissart are pointed out by Tyrrel (Hist. Eng. vol. iii. p. 902), and a singular mistake in the MS. Ambassades, "Relation de la Mort," &c. where John Carnailly is substituted for Sir Simon Burley, has been noticed in the Archaeologia, vol. xx. p. 425, note.

Note f. Sir Lewis Clifford, an ancestor of Lord Clifford of Chudleigh, became a leader among the Lollards, but afterwards recanted to Archbishop Arundel. Walsingham, p. 409. His very remarkable will, in which he enjoins his executors to bury him, "false and traytor to his Lord God," with extraordinary indignities, is preserved in Dugdale's Baronage, i. p. 341. It may not be unworthy of remark, that his descendants have adhered to their ancient faith.

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Aubrey de Vere 10th Earl of Oxford 1338-1400 appears on the following Descendants Family Trees:

Royal Ancestors of Aubrey de Vere 10th Earl of Oxford 1338-1400

Kings Wessex: Great x 10 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England

Kings Gwynedd: Great x 10 Grand Son of Maredudd ab Owain King Deheubarth King Powys King Gwynedd

Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 12 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth

Kings Powys: Great x 10 Grand Son of Maredudd ab Owain King Deheubarth King Powys King Gwynedd

Kings England: Great x 5 Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Kings Scotland: Great x 9 Grand Son of King Duncan I of Scotland

Kings Franks: Great x 16 Grand Son of Louis "Pious" King Aquitaine I King Franks

Kings France: Great x 9 Grand Son of Robert "Pious" II King France

Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 14 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine

Royal Descendants of Aubrey de Vere 10th Earl of Oxford 1338-1400

Brigadier-General Charles FitzClarence

Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom

Queen Consort Camilla Shand

Diana Spencer Princess Wales

Ancestors of Aubrey de Vere 10th Earl of Oxford 1338-1400

Great x 4 Grandfather: Aubrey de Vere 1st Earl of Oxford

Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert de Vere 3rd Earl of Oxford

Great x 4 Grandmother: Agnes Essex Countess of Oxford

Great x 2 Grandfather: Hugh de Vere 4th Earl of Oxford

Great x 4 Grandfather: Walter de Bolbec

Great x 3 Grandmother: Isabel de Bolebec Countess of Oxford

Great x 1 Grandfather: Robert de Vere 5th Earl of Oxford

Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Quincy

Great x 3 Grandfather: Saer Quincy 1st Earl Winchester

Great x 2 Grandmother: Hawise Quincy Countess Oxford

GrandFather: Alphonse Vere

Great x 1 Grandmother: Alice Sanford Countess of Oxford

Father: John de Vere 7th Earl of Oxford

Great x 2 Grandfather: Richard Foliot

Great x 1 Grandfather: Jordan Foliot

Great x 4 Grandfather: Osmond Stuteville

Great x 3 Grandfather: William Stuteville

Great x 2 Grandmother: Margery Stuteville

Great x 4 Grandfather: Hugh Say 5th Baron Burford

Great x 3 Grandmother: Margaret Say 6th Baroness Burford

Great x 4 Grandmother: Mabel Marmion Baroness Burford

GrandMother: Jane Foliot

Aubrey de Vere 10th Earl of Oxford 5 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 1 Grandfather: Gunselin Badlesmere

GrandFather: Bartholomew Badlesmere 1st Baron Badlesmere

Great x 1 Grandmother: Joan Fitzbernard

Mother: Maud Badlesmere Countess of Oxford 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Clare 3rd Earl Hertford

Great x 3 Grandfather: Gilbert Clare 5th Earl Gloucester 4th Earl Hertford 2 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Amice Fitzrobert Countess Hertford Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 2 Grandfather: Richard de Clare 6th Earl Gloucester 5th Earl Hertford 3 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 1 Grandfather: Thomas de Clare 4 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 3 Grandfather: John Lacy Earl Lincoln

Great x 4 Grandmother: Maud Clere Baroness Lacy Baroness Warkworth

Great x 2 Grandmother: Maud Lacy Countess Gloucester and Hertford 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Quincy Earl Lincoln

Great x 3 Grandmother: Margaret Quincy 3rd Countess Lincoln and Pembroke 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Hawise Gernon 2nd Countess Lincoln 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

GrandMother: Margaret Clare Baroness Badlesmere 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Gerald Fitzgerald 1st Lord Offaly

Great x 3 Grandfather: Maurice Fitzgerald 2nd Lord Offaly

Great x 4 Grandmother: Eve Bermingham

Great x 2 Grandfather: Maurice Fitzgerald 4th Lord Offaly

Great x 3 Grandmother: Juliana Granville Baroness Offaly

Great x 1 Grandmother: Juliana Fitzgerald 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: William "Longsword" Longespee Earl Salisbury Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Stephen Longespée Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 2 Grandmother: Emmeline Longespée Baroness Offaly Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Walter Riddlesford

Great x 3 Grandmother: Emmeline Riddlesford