Alice FitzRichard 
Alice was born about 1160 in Warkworth Castle, Alnwick, Northumberland, England. Alice's father was Roger FitzRichard , 1st Baron of Warkworth and her mother was Alice de Vere. Her paternal grandparents were Richard FitzEustace Lord Clavering , Baron Halton and Jane Bigod; her maternal grandparents were Aubrey II de Vere , Sheriff of London and Alice de Clare. She had a brother named Robert. She was the older of the two children. She died after 1190.General Notes
The following is excerpted from a post to SGM, 15 Sep 2000, by Chris Phillips:
From: Chris Phillips (cgp100@@cgp100.dabsol.co.uk)
Subject: Re: Constable connections (Alice de Vere)
Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.medieval
Date: 2000-09-15 02:48:25 PST
The Complete Peerage, in a pedigree (vol.7, p.677) just shows this couple "John, Constable of Chester, d.1190" (and says that it was John's son Roger who took the name of Lacy).
I have some more notes about Alice's identity, from various authors early this century (when it seems to have been a matter of controversy). Possibly there has been some more recent work that I'm not aware of!
Most of the information comes from an article by G.H.White [Geneal. Mag. vii 469 (1935-37)]. From the evidence of the Rotulus de Dominabus (pp.29,76) and the Pipe Rolls for 10 Richard I (p.118) and 1 John (p.207), John's wife is identified as Alice de Vere, the daughter of Alice of Essex. Although Dugdale mis-identified her, Alice of Essex was the daughter of Aubrey de Vere (d.1141; the father of the first Earl of Oxford) and his wife Alice (the daughter of Gilbert FitzRichard of Clare and Tonbridge). Note that John's wife Alice is a rare example of a woman using her mother's maiden name as her surname.
According to White, Alice of Essex [Alice, daughter of Aubrey de Vere] had three husbands:
(i) William de Sackville, Lord of Braxted, but he was claimed as husband by Aubreye, daughter of Geoffrey Tregoz, who alleged a pre-contract; although he and Alice fought the case, their marriage was dissolved [citing Round, Arch. J. lxiv 225; Hall, Court Life under the Plantagenets, pp.98-112].
(ii) Robert of Essex.
(iii) Roger Fitz Richard, Lord of Warkworth, a minor Baron, whom she also outlived
[citing Round, Essex Arch. Soc. Trans. NS iii 245-47].
Opinions differ as to which of these husbands was the father of Alice "de Vere" the wife of John the constable:
Round [Essex Arch. Soc. Trans. NS iii 248] believed that her father was RogerFitz Richard;
Farrer [Honors and Knights' Fees ii 201-2], followed by Wagner [Geneal. Mag. vii 471 (1935-37)], affiliated her to Robert de Essex.
White supports Round, for two reasons:
(i) In 1185 she held in dower Clavering, which belonged to the Honor of Rayleigh, and so came from the Honor of Essex. On her death it escheated to the Crown, the Honor of Rayleigh having been forfeited by Henry de Essex in 1163. Subsequently it was granted by the king to Robert FitzRoger (her son by Roger Fitz Richard) [citing Essex Arch Soc Trans NS iii 247], which makes it unlikely there was issue living of her marriage to Robert of Essex.
(ii) Round [ibid] suggests that the elder Alice continued to style herself 'de Essex' because Robert de Essex was more important than Roger Fitz Richard, and because the latter had no surname. Likewise, White suggests, the younger Alice may have called herself 'de Vere' because her father had no surname and was of little importance compared with the de Veres.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 1025 in Vains, Manche, Normandy, France d.< 1061
- b.< 1056 in Vains, Manche, Normandy, France d.1138 in Saxlingham, Norfolk, England
- b.~ 1083 in Knaresborough Castle, Yorkshire, England d.03 Jul 1157 in ambushed near Basingwerk Abbey, Flintshire, Wales
- b.~ 1063 in Yorkshire, England
- b.~ 1120 in Halton Castle, Skipton, Yorkshire, England d.1163 in Halton Castle, Skipton, Yorkshire, England
- b.~ 1043 in Chester, Cheshire, England
- b.1058 in Chester, Cheshire, England d.1134 in Halton, Cheshire, England
- b.1084 in Halton Castle, Skipton, Yorkshire, England d.1166 in Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, England
- b.1040 in Widness, Halton, Cheshire, England d.1134 in Halton, Cheshire, England
- b.1062 in Halton, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1141 in Warkworth Castle, Alnwick, Northumberland, England d.1178
- b.~ 1015 in Avranches, Manche, Normandy, France d.1071
- b.~ 1034 in Avranches, Manche, Normandy, France d.1071
- b.~ 1060 in St. Saveur, Calvados, Normandy, France d.08 Sep 1107 in Evesham, Suffolk, England.
- b.~ 1010 in St. Saveur, Calvados, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1035 in St. Saveur, Calvados, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1105 in Belvoir Castle, Belvoir, Leicestershire, England
- b.~ 0990 in Tosni, Louviers, Eure, Normandy, France d.BET 1038 AND 1039 in In battle with neighbor against succession of William I
- b.~ 1025 in Tosni, Louviers, Eure, Normandy, France d.04 Aug 1088 in Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, England
- b.~ 1010 in Barcelona, Spain
- b.~ 1070 in St. Saveur, Calvados, Normandy, France d.> 1130 in Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, England
- b.1015 in Savona, Italy d.1079
- b.~ 1035 in St. Saveur, Calvados, Normandy, France d.< 1075 in Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, England
- b.~ 1160 in Warkworth Castle, Alnwick, Northumberland, England d.> 1190
- b.0965 in Ver, Manche, Normandy, France
- b.1000 in Ver, Manche, Normandy, France
- b.0970 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais, France
- b.< 1040 in Ver, Manche, Normandy, France d.1112 in Hedingham Castle, Essex, England
- b.0984 in Flanders, France
- b.~ 1005 in Flanders, France
- b.< 1090 in of Great Addington & Drayton, Northamptonshire, England d.15 May 1141 in Slain in a riot in London, Middlesex, England
- b.~ 1045 in Bourboucy, France
- b.< 1141 in Hedingham, Essex, England d.> 1185 in Warkworth Castle, Alnwick, Northumberland, England
- b.~ 0980 in Brionne, Eure, Normandy, France d.1040 in Assassinated
- b.< 1035 in Brionne, Eure, Normandy, France d.May 1089 in Priory of St Neot, Cambridgeshire, England
- b.~ 1009 in Eu, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France
- b.< 1066 in Clare, Suffolk, England d.< 1117 in of Tonbridge, Kent, England & Cardigan, Wales
- b.~ 1010 in Longueville, Normandy, France d.1084 in France
- b.~ 1036 in Longueville, Normandy, France d.> 1133
- b.~ 1014 in Evereux, Normandy, France d. in France
- b.~ 1093 in Clare, Suffolk, England d.~ 1163
- b.1010 in Creil, Oise, Picardy, France d.1098 in Clermont-en-Beauvais, Oise, Picardy, France
- b.1030 in Clermont-en-Beauvais, Oise, Picardy, France d.1101
- b.1010 in Clermont-en-Beauvais, Oise, Picardy, France
- b.~ 1072 in Clermont-en-Beauvais, Oise, Picardy, France
- b.~ 1010 in Montdidier, Somme, Picardy, France d.~ 1063
- b.1045 in Montdidier, Somme, Picardy, France d.1110 in Clermont-en-Beauvais, Oise, Picardy, France
- b.~ 1014 in Roucy, Aisne, Picardy, France d.1062
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