Sir Richard de Vere, Knight, 11th Earl of Oxford

Male 1385 - 1417  (31 years)


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  • Name Richard de Vere 
    Title Sir 
    Suffix Knight, 11th Earl of Oxford 
    Birth 15 Aug 1385  Hedingham Castle, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Gender Male 
    Death 15 Feb 1417  [1
    Burial Earl's Colne, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Person ID I43498  The Hennessee Family
    Last Modified 19 Oct 2016 

    Father Sir Aubrey de Vere, Knight, 10th Earl of Oxford,   b. ~ 1338, Hedingham Castle, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 15 Feb 1400 (Age ~ 62 years) 
    Mother Alice FitzWalter,   b. ~ 1343, Alnwick, Northumberland, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Apr 1401, (England) Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 58 years) 
    Marriage ~ 1384  (England) Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 3, 4
    Family ID F15791  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Alice Sergeaux, Countess of Oxfor,   b. ~ 1386, Colquite Manor, St Mabyn, Cornwall, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 May 1452, (England) Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 66 years) 
    Marriage (England) Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 5
    Children 
     1. Sir Robert de Vere, Knight,   b. 1407, Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. John de Vere,   b. 23 Apr 1408, Hedingham Castle, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 Feb 1460, Tower Hill, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 51 years)
    Family ID F15790  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 30 Apr 2023 

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  • Notes 
    • Last Edited=6 Sep 2010
      Consanguinity Index=0.87%

      Richard de Vere, 11th Earl of Oxford was born circa 1385. He was the son of Aubrey de Vere, 10th Earl of Oxford and Alice FitzWalter.2 He married Alice de Holand, daughter of John de Holand, 1st Duke of Exeter and Elizabeth Plantagenet.3 He married Alice Sergeaux, daughter of Sir Richard Sergeaux and Philippe FitzAlan, circa 1405.1 He died on 15 February 1417.

      He gained the title of 11th Earl of Oxford.3

      Children of Richard de Vere, 11th Earl of Oxford and Alice Sergeaux

      Sir Robert de Vere+
      John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford+ b. 23 Apr 1408, d. 26 Feb 1461/62

      Citations
      [S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume I, page 244. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
      [S37] BP2003 volume 1, page 1442. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S37]
      [S11] Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), page 100. Hereinafter cited as Britain's Royal Families.

      * [1]
    • Richard de Vere, 11th Earl of Oxford KG (15 August 1385 – 15 February 1417) was the son and heir of Aubrey de Vere, 10th Earl of Oxford. He took part in the trial of Richard, Earl of Cambridge and Lord Scrope for their part in the Southampton Plot, and was one of the commanders at Agincourt in 1415.

      Career

      Richard de Vere, born 15 August 1385, was the eldest son of Aubrey de Vere, 10th Earl of Oxford, and his wife Alice Fitzwalter, daughter of John, 3rd Baron Fitzwalter, by Eleanor Percy, daughter of Henry de Percy, 2nd Baron Percy.[1] The 10th Earl died on 23 April 1400 while Richard was underage. His wardship was initially granted to his mother, but after her death on 29 April 1401, King Henry IV granted it to his mother-in-law, Joan de Bohun, Countess of Hereford.[2] Oxford had livery of his lands on 21 December 1406 without proof of age.[3]

      From 1410 onwards Oxford was appointed as a commissioner in Essex on various occasions, and in November 1411 was a Trier of Petitions from overseas in Parliament.

      In August 1412 Oxford was among those who sailed to Normandy under Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence, to aid the Armagnac party against the Burgundians. According to Pugh, the members of the nobility who accompanied the Duke of Clarence on this expedition did so in hope of financial gain, Oxford's earldom in particular having suffered from forfeitures and attainders during the lives of his predecessors which had made him 'the poorest member of the English higher nobility'.[4] Another member of the Duke of Clarence's expedition was Richard, 3rd Earl of Cambridge, and three years later, on 5 August 1415, Oxford was among the peers at the trial, presided over by the Duke of Clarence, which condemned to death Cambridge and Lord Scrope for their part in the Southampton Plot on the eve of Henry V's invasion of France.[5] A few days later Oxford sailed to France with the King, and was one of the commanders at Agincourt on 25 October 1415.[6]

      In May 1416 Oxford was invested with the Order of the Garter, and in that year sailed with the fleet to relieve Harfleur, taking part in the naval battle at the mouth of the Seine on 15 August.[7]

      Oxford died 15 February 1417, aged 31, and was buried at Earls Colne, Essex. His widow, Alice, married Sir Nicholas Thorley, of London, Bobbingworth, Essex, and Sawtres (in Thundridge), Hertfordshire, Sheriff of Essex and Hertfordshire, 1431–2. He served in the contingent of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. He and his wife, Countess Alice, presented to the churches of Badlesmere, Kent, 1421, Aston Sandford, Buckinghamshire, 1422, and St. Erme, Cornwall, 1432. In October 1421 he was brought before a court consisting of the Regent, Beaufort, the Chancellor, Treasurer, Privy Seal, Justices of either Bench, and others of the Council, and acknowledged that he had married the widowed Countess of Oxford without the king’s permission. The Chancellor took into the king’s hands all of the lands of the Countess until he made a fine for their recovery, and sent him to the Tower in irons, where he remained until February 1424, when the Countess had paid a full year’s value of her lands. Alice obtained a papal indult for plenary remission in 1426. In November 1426 he and his wife, Alice, were fully pardoned for having married without royal licence. In 1436 he and John Robessart, Knt. owed 110 marks to Lawrence Downe, Gent. In 1440 he and his wife, Alice, Countess of Oxford, John Passheley, and John Marny, Esq., sued John Balle, of Chepping Norton, Oxfordshire, yeoman, in the Court of Common Pleas regarding a debt. Sir Nicholas Thorley died 5 May 1442. His widow, Alice, Countess of Oxford, died 18 May 1452, and was buried at Earls Colne, Essex.[8]

      Marriages and issue

      Oxford married twice:

      Firstly at some time before 1399, to Alice Holland, daughter of John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter by his wife Princess Elizabeth, sister of King Henry IV and daughter of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster. Without progeny.[9]
      Secondly in about 1406 or 1407 he married Alice Sergeaux (c.1386 - 18 May 1452), widow of Guy St Aubyn of St Erme, Cornwall, and daughter of Sir Richard Sergeaux of Colquite, Cornwall by his second wife, Philippe de Arundel (d. 18 May 1452), a daughter and co-heiress of Sir Edmund de Arundel,[10] the bastardized son of Richard Fitzalan, 10th Earl of Arundel by his first wife Isabel Despenser, which marriage was annulled in 1344.[11] By Alice Sergeaux he had three sons:
      John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford, eldest son and heir.
      Sir Robert Vere (1410-1461), of Haccombe, Devon, who married (as her second husband) Joan Courtenay (d. before 3 August 1465), a daughter of Sir Hugh Courtenay (d.1425) of Haccombe in Devon (by his second wife Philippa Archdekne, heiress of Haccombe) and widow of Sir Nicholas Carew (d. before 20 April 1448) of Mohuns Ottery in Devon, of Carew Castle in Pembrokeshire and of Moulesford in Berkshire. By Joan Courtenay he had one son:
      John Vere (d. before 15 March 1488), who married Alice Colbroke, and by her was father of John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford.[12]
      Sir Richard Vere, who married Margaret Percy (d. 22 September 1464), widow of Henry Grey, 6th Baron Grey of Codnor (d. 17 July 1444), and daughter and co-heiress of Sir Henry Percy 'of Atholl' of Harthill, Yorkshire, by his wife Elizabeth Bardolf, daughter of William Bardolf, 4th Baron Bardolf by his wife Agnes Poynings.[13] [2]

  • Sources 
    1. [S7412] "Richard de Vere, 11th Earl of Oxford", biography, http://www.thepeerage.com/p2358.htm#i23576.

    2. [S9851] "Richard de Vere, 11th Earl of Oxford" biography, accessed & downloaded October 19th, 2016 by David A. Hennessee, https:.

    3. [S7512] "Sir Robert de Vere, Knight (1407 - ?)" Pedigree & 9 Generation Ahnentafel, cited August 24, 2015, by "Our Family Histor.

    4. [S7420] "Aubrey de Vere, 10th Earl of Oxford (c. 1338 - 15 February 1400)" biography, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey_de_Ve.

    5. [S7153] "Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel (~ 1306-1376)", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_FitzAlan,_10th_Earl_of_Aru.