Rohese de Vere and Geofrey de Mandeville
According to Thomas Wright in his History and Topography of Essex:
Geoffrey de Mandeville, Earl of Essex married Roshe de Vere sometime between 1111 and
1144, i.e. his death.
Aubrey de Vere I and his wife Beatrice founded Colne Priory in or
before 1111.
Colne Priory at Earls Colne, Essex was a Benedictine priory, initially a dependent cell of Abingdon Abbey,
Berkshire (now in Oxfordshire). Hence the Earls of Oxford.
This does not explain the inconsitancy between Thomas' accounts of the origin of the de Vere family
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The monuments described by Thomas Wright:
ln the chancel there is a handsome monument of white and grey marble, ornamented menu. _ .....
with sculptures,
erected to the memory of various individuals of the Raymond family, whose names are inscribed on a marble
table, with their ages, and time of their decease.
This family have a vault under the church. There are also the remains of a very ancient monument, of elaborate
workmanship, said to be erected to the memory of one of the earls of Essex, but the inscription has been
entirely defaced.
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This estate belonged to Aubrey de Vere, in the reign of King Henry the
First; and Roese, his daughter, had it for her marriage portion,
with her first husband, Geofrey de Mandeville, earl of Essex;
it was also holden by her second husband, Pegasus, or Payne de Beauchamp,
baron of Bedford.
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