Hugh de Vere, earl of Oxford

4th earl of Oxford

Events

Date of Birth: about 1210.

The date is given by the Complete Peerage (10:213).

Date of Death: before 23 December 1263.

The date is given by the Complete Peerage (10:215).

Place of Burial: Earls Colne.

The place is given by the Complete Peerage (10:215).

Relationships

Father: Robert de Vere (died 1221), third earl of Oxford.

This relationship is given by DeAragon (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (10:213).

Mother: Isabel de Bolebec (about 1164 - 1245).

This relationship is given by DeAragon (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (10:213).

Spouse: Hawise, daughter of Saher de Quincy, 1st earl of Winchester. Married after 11 February 1222/3.

This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (10:215). Details of the maritagium are given in Ward (no. 11).

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.)

Isabel de Vere married (1) John de Courtenay; married (2) Olivier de Dineham.

Robert de Vere (died 1296), earl of Oxford, married Alice de Sanford.

Laura de Vere (died 1292) married Reynold d’Argentine.

Margaret married Hugh de Cressi.

References

Cawley, Charles. “Hugh de 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).

DeAragon, RaGena C. “Bolebec, Isabel de, countess of Oxford (c. 1164 - 1245)” 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).

Ward, Jennifer (trans. and ed.). Women of the English Nobility and Gentry 1066-1500 (Manchester University Press, 1995).