Sir Robert de Vere Earl of Oxford 
Sir Robert de Vere was born in 1230 in Hedinham, Essex, England. Sir Robert de Vere's father was Hugh de Vere Earl of Oxford and his mother was Hawise de Quincy. His paternal grandparents were Robert de Vere Earl of Oxford and Isabella de Bolbec; his maternal grandparents were Saher de Quincy IV Earl of Winchester and Margaret de Beaumont. He had two brothers and four sisters, named Aubrey, Richard, Isabel, Lora, Margaret and Maud. He died at the age of 66 on September 2nd, 1296.General Notes
Sources conflict on who was Roberts wife. The Complete Peerage says it was
Alice de Sanford who was the mother of Joan. That is a reliable source.
Robert de Vere, 5th Earl of Oxford and 6th Great Chamberlain, having arrayed himself under the banner of Montfort, Earl of Leicester, was amongst those who were surprised with young Hugh de Montfort at Kenilworth a few days before the battle of Evesham and taken prisoner, but he made his peace soon after under the "Dictum of Kenilworth," and we find him employed by King Edward I against the Welsh in the 14th of that monarch's reign [1286]. His lordship m. Alice, dau. and heiress of Gilbert de Saundford, chamberlain in fee to Eleanor, Queen of Henry III, and had, with other issue, Robert, Alphonsus, Hugh, Lord Vere, Joan, and Lora. The earl d. in 1296, and was s. by hiis eldest son, Robert de Vere, 6th Earl of Oxford and 7th Great Chamberlain. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, London, 1883, p. 550, Vere, Earls of Oxford, &c.]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.1170 in Hatfield, Essex, England d.<25 Oct 1221 in Colne, Essex, England
- b.~ 1210 in Hatfield, Essex, England d.<23 Dec 1263
- b.1175 in of Hatfield, Essex d.3 FEB 1244/45
- b.1230 in Hedinham, Essex, England d.02 Sep 1296
- b.1155 in Winchester, Hampshire, England d.03 Nov 1219 in Acre, Palestine or Damietta, Palestine
- b.BET. 1178 - 1184 in Winchester, Hampshire, England d.AFT. 3 FEB 1262/63
- b.1154 in Hampshire, England d.12 JAN 1234/35
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Sir Robert de Vere and Alice were married in a religious ceremony before December 22nd, 1252. They had five sons and two daughters, named Gilbert, Philip, Alfonso, Hugh, Robert, Joan and Hawise.
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Children
Joan de Vere
Joan was born in 1264 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. She died at the age of 29 on November 23rd, 1293 in Lewes, Sussex, England.
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