Name Suffix:<NSFX> Lord Chamberlain Of England
Alberic de Vere, being in high favour with King Henry I, was constituted by that monarch Great Chamberlain of England to hold the same in fee to himself and his heirs with all dignities and liberties thereunto appertaining as fully and honourably as Robert Malet, lord of the honour of Eye, in Suffolk, who had then been banished and disinherited, had holden the same office. His lordship m. Adeliza, dau. of Gilbert de Clare (or, according to Collins, Adeline, dau. of Roger de Yvery), and had issue:
Alberic, or Aubrey, his successor,
-----, canon of St. Osyth's, in Essex,
Robert, Lord of Twiwell, co. Northampton,
Godfrey,
William, chancellor of England,
Adeliza, m. to Henry de Essex,
Juliana, m. to Hugh Bigod, Earl of Norfolk,
Rohesia, m. 1st to Geoffrey Mandeville, Earl of Oxford, and 2ndly, Payne Beauchamp, of Bedford.
In the 5th year of King Stephen [1140], when joint sheriff (with Richard Basset, then justice of England,) of Surrey, Cambridge, Essex, and several other counties, his lordship was slain in a popular tumult at London, and was s. by his eldest son, Aubrey de Vere. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, London, 1883, p. 549, Vere, Earls of Oxford, &c.]