Isabel de Bolebec

Events

Date of Birth: about 1164.

The estimated date is given by DeAragon (ODNB).

Date of Death: 3 February 1245.

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

Place of Burial: the Dominican priory church in St Ebbe’s.

The place is given by DeAragon (ODNB).

Relationships

Father: Hugh de Bolebec (died about 1165), lord of Whitchurch, Buckinghamshire.

This relationship is given by DeAragon (ODNB), by Keats-Rohan (p. 334), and by the Complete Peerage (10:213), which notes that some sources wrongly give her father as Walter. (These sources include the Complete Peerage 2:203 and Sanders p. 98).

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: Henry de Nonant (died 1206), lord of Totnes, Devon.

This relationship is given by DeAragon (ODNB), by Keats-Rohan (p. 334), and by the Complete Peerage (10:212).

Spouse: Robert de Vere (died 1221).

This relationship is given by DeAragon (ODNB), by Keats-Rohan (p. 334), and by the Complete Peerage (10:212).

Children (by Robert):

Hugh de Vere (about 1210 - before 23 December 1263), fourth earl of Oxford, married Hawise de Quincy.

Eleanor de Vere married Ralph Gernon.

References

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).

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

Sanders, Ivor John. English Baronies (Oxford: 1960).