Robert de Vere , 3rd Earl of Oxford, MCS 
Robert de was born after 1164 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Robert de's father was Aubrey III de Vere , 1st Earl of Oxford and his mother was Agnes of Essex. He had a sister named Alice (Adeliza) de. He was the younger of the two children. He had a half-brother named Ralph Radulphus de. He died before October 25th, 1221 in Hedingham Castle, Essex, England.General Notes
Robert de Vere [3rd son, eldest was Aubrey, 2nd Earl of Oxford, dspl by Oct 1214, 2nd son was Ralph, dvf], 3rd Earl of Oxford; hereditary Master Chamberlain of England, one of the magnates appointed to enforce King John's observance of Magna Charta; Justice Itinerant 1220 and Justice in King's Court of Westminster 1221; married Isabel (died 3 Feb 1245), sister of Walter de Bolebec and aunt of his [Robert de Vere's] elder brother's [Aubrey, 2nd Earl of Oxford's] 1st wife, and died by 25 Oct 1221. [Burke's Peerage]
-----------------------
The 3rd de Vere Earl was one of the barons opposed to King John at Runymede in 1215 at the time of the granting of Magna Carta. His position on that occasion is a good example of the different meaning the term baron had at that time (ie. magnate or tenant in chief of the Crown) from what it does today, viz. holder of a specific degree of lordship of Parliament. De Vere's title of Earl was a real one but it was not a lordship of Parliament, for Parliament did not yet exist. Nor did de Vere have a subsidiary barony or viscountcy title in the way that earls now tend to. [Burke's Peerage, Earldom of Oxford, p. 2178]
They had a son and a daughter, named Hugh de and Eleanore de.
-
Children
Hugh de Vere , 4th Earl of Oxford
Hugh de was born about 1210 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. He died before December 23rd, 1263 in Hedingham Castle, Essex, England.
Eleanore de Vere
Eleanore de was born about 1220 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. She died before 1274 in Great Birch, Cambridgeshire, England.
Page last modified