Alice de Clare

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: about 1163.

The estimated date is given by DeAragon (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (10:198), which state that Alice survived her husband by 22 years.

Relationships

Father: Gilbert fitz Richard (died 1117).

This relationship is given by Mortimer (ODNB), by Keats-Rohan (p. 397), and by the Complete Peerage (10:198).

Mother: Adeliz de Clermont.

This relationship is given by Keats-Rohan (p. 397).

Spouse: Aubrey (II) de Vere.

This relationship is given by DeAragon (ODNB), by Keats-Rohan (p. 397), and by the Complete Peerage (10:198).

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.)

Alice de Vere married (1) Robert de Essex; married (2) Roger fitz Richard.

Rohese de Vere (died 1116) married (1) Geoffrey de Mandeville, first earl of Essex; married (2) Payn de Beauchamp.

Aubrey (III) de Vere (about 1115 - 26 December 1184), earl of Oxford, married (1) Beatrice, daughter of Henry, constable of Bourbourg; married (2) Euphemia, said to be a daughter of William de Cantilupe; married (3) Agnes of Essex.

Geoffrey (died 1170) married (1) the widow of Warin fitz Gerold; married (2) Isabel de Say.

Robert married (1) unknown; married (2) Margaret de Clare.

William (died 24 December 1198). Bishop of Hereford.

Gilbert. Prior of the order of St John of Jerusalem in England.

Juliana married (1) Hugh Bigod (marriage annulled); married (2) Walchelin Maminot.

a daughter married Roger of Raimes.

References

Cawley, Charles. “Earls of Oxford 1142-1526 (Vere)” 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. “Vere, Aubrey (II) de (d. 1141)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2007).

Keats-Rohan, Katharine S. B. Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1106 - 1166. (Woodbridge: 2002).

Mortimer, Richard. “Clare, Gilbert de (d. 1117)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford University Press, 2004).