Paternal Family Tree: Vere
Around 1110 Rohese Vere Countess Essex and Hertford was born to Aubrey II de Vere [aged 30].
Before 1139 Geoffrey Mandeville 1st Earl Essex and Rohese Vere Countess Essex and Hertford [aged 28] were married.
In 1139 [her husband] Geoffrey Mandeville 1st Earl Essex was created 1st Earl Essex. Rohese Vere Countess Essex and Hertford [aged 29] by marriage Countess Essex.
In 1141 [her half-brother] Aubrey de Vere 1st Earl of Oxford [aged 26] was created 1st Earl of Oxford.
In May 1141 [her father] Aubrey II de Vere [aged 61] died.
In August 1144 [her husband] Geoffrey Mandeville 1st Earl Essex was killed at Barnwell Castle [Map]. His son Geoffrey succeeded 2nd Earl Essex. He had requested burial at his foundation Walden Priory [Map] but was denied since he was excomunicate. His remains were taken for burial at Temple Church, London [Map]
Around 1145 Geoffrey Mandeville 2nd Earl Essex and Eustachia de Chapamgne Countess Essex [aged 35] were married. She by marriage Countess Essex. He the son of Geoffrey Mandeville 1st Earl Essex and Rohese Vere Countess Essex and Hertford [aged 35].
In 1153 Gilbert de Clare 1st Earl Hertford [aged 38] died. He was buried at Clare Priory, Suffolk [Map]. His brother Roger [aged 37] succeeded 2nd Earl Hertford. Rohese Vere Countess Essex and Hertford [aged 43] by marriage Countess Hertford.
Before 1156 Payne Beauchamp [aged 75] and Rohese Vere Countess Essex and Hertford [aged 45] were married. The difference in their ages was 30 years.
Around 1156 [her husband] Payne Beauchamp [aged 76] died.
William of Worcester's Chronicle of England
William of Worcester, born around 1415, and died around 1482 was secretary to John Fastolf, the renowned soldier of the Hundred Years War, during which time he collected documents, letters, and wrote a record of events. Following their return to England in 1440 William was witness to major events. Twice in his chronicle he uses the first person: 1. when writing about the murder of Thomas, 7th Baron Scales, in 1460, he writes '… and I saw him lying naked in the cemetery near the porch of the church of St. Mary Overie in Southwark …' and 2. describing King Edward IV's entry into London in 1461 he writes '… proclaimed that all the people themselves were to recognize and acknowledge Edward as king. I was present and heard this, and immediately went down with them into the city'. William’s Chronicle is rich in detail. It is the source of much information about the Wars of the Roses, including the term 'Diabolical Marriage' to describe the marriage of Queen Elizabeth Woodville’s brother John’s marriage to Katherine, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, he aged twenty, she sixty-five or more, and the story about a paper crown being placed in mockery on the severed head of Richard, 3rd Duke of York.
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In or before 1158 [her brother-in-law] Roger Fitzrichard 1st Baron Warkworth and [her half-sister] Alice Vere Baroness Warkworth were married.
Around 1162 [her half-brother] Aubrey de Vere 1st Earl of Oxford [aged 47] and [her sister-in-law] Agnes Essex Countess of Oxford [aged 11] were married. She by marriage Countess of Oxford. The difference in their ages was 36 years.
Around 1166 [her son] Geoffrey Mandeville 2nd Earl Essex died. Geoffrey Mandeville 2nd Earl Essex was buried at Waldon Priory and Abbey [Map]. His brother William succeeded 3rd Earl Essex.
In 1170 Rohese Vere Countess Essex and Hertford [aged 60] died.
[her son] Geoffrey Mandeville 2nd Earl Essex was born to Geoffrey Mandeville 1st Earl Essex and Rohese Vere Countess Essex and Hertford. He married 1145 Eustachia de Chapamgne Countess Essex, daughter of Guillaume le Jeune Gouët and Richilde FitzRoy.
[her father] Aubrey II de Vere and Adelize de Clare were married.
[her son] William Mandeville 3rd Earl Essex Count Aumale was born to Geoffrey Mandeville 1st Earl Essex and Rohese Vere Countess Essex and Hertford. He married 1180 Hawise Blois 2nd Countess Albemarle and Essex, daughter of William of Blois 1st Earl Albemarle 1st Earl York and Cecily Skipton Countess Aumale and York.
[her daughter] Alice Mandeville Baroness Halton was born to Geoffrey Mandeville 1st Earl Essex and Rohese Vere Countess Essex and Hertford. She married before 11th October 1190 John Fitzrichard 6th Baron Halton, son of Richard Fitzeustace 5th Baron of Halton and Albreda Lissours.
