Agnes of Essex

Events

Date of Birth: 1151.

The date is given by DeAragon (ODNB).

Date of Death: in or after 1206.

The date is given by DeAragon (ODNB).

Place of Burial: Earls Colne Priory, Essex.

The place is given by DeAragon (ODNB).

Relationships

Father: Henry of Essex, royal constable.

This relationship is given by DeAragon (ODNB).

Mother: Cecily.

This relationship is given by DeAragon (ODNB).

Spouse: Aubrey (III) de Vere, count of Guînes, earl of Oxford.

This relationship is given by Crouch (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (10:206).

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Cawley.)

Aubrey (IV) de Vere married (1) Isabel, daughter of Walter de Bolebec; married (2) Alice, said to be a daughter of Roger Bigod, 2nd earl of Norfolk.

Ralph.

Robert de Vere (died 1221), married Isabel,daughter of Hugh de Bolebec.

Henry.

Alice married Geoffrey de Say.

References

Cawley, Charles. “Aubrey (III)” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59).

Crouch, David. “Vere, Aubrey (III) de, count of Guînes and earl of Oxford (d. 1194)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).

DeAragon, RaGena C. “Essex, Agnes of (b. 1151, d. in or after 1206)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).

DeAragon, RaGena C. “Vere, Robert de (d. 1221)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).