Aubrey de Vere II

Aubrey de Vere II (Latin Alberic [us ] de Ver, * around 1080, † May 15, 1141 was the eldest surviving son of Aubrey de Vere I, who came with William the Conqueror in 1066 to England.

Aubrey II served as sheriff in numerous counties and as a Justiciar under kings Henry I and Stephen. In 1133 he was entrusted by Henry I to the office of Lord Great Chamberlain, after his predecessor Robert Malet had been deposed and dispossessed. The chronicler William of Malmesbury reports that Aubrey represented King Stephen in 1139, when he was summoned to a church council, to testify to the seizure of castles of Bishop Roger of Salisbury. In 1141 he was killed in a riot in London. Aubrey II de Vere was buried in the family mausoleum Colne Priory.

Aubrey II de Vere married Adeliza / Alice, daughter of Gilbert de Clare, Lord of Clare and Tonbridge. Their known children are:

• Aubrey de Vere, 1st Earl of Oxford
• Rohese de Vere; ∞ Geoffrey de Mandeville, 1st Earl of Essex
• Robert
• Alice " of Essex; "
• Geoffrey;
• Juliana, Countess of Norfolk;
• William de Vere, Bishop of Hereford;
• Gilbert, Prior of the Order of St. John in England;
• Daughter; ∞ Roger de Ramis.

His eldest son Aubrey III. was created Earl of Oxford later, he and his descendants held the office of master - father, which was upgraded to the Lord Great Chamberlain, to the extinction of the family in the male line 1703.