Rohese de Vere and Geofrey de Mandeville
The connection between the de Veres and the de Mandevilles is explored here.
I see that my pages on Geoffrey de Mandeville (of Walden Abbey fame and his relationship woth King Stephen) has not been rescribed particularly well.
Tbe reasons for the marriage of de Mandeville to a de Vere need to be examined in more detail. There is obviously a connection by just looking as their coats of arms.
Rohese de Vere and Geofrey de Mandeville - 1111-1114
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:
In 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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Chicksands Priory
Walden Abbey was founded by Geoffrey de Mandeville, Chicksands was founded by Payne de Beauchamp and Rohse de Vere her second husband after Geoffrey's death (1144). There also seems to be some other patronage from the de Beauchamp family of Bedford. The proximity of Chicksands to Bedford, South and on the river Flit (Flitwick - Junction 12 on the M1), gives a clue.
The Gilbertine priory of Chicksands was founded about 1152 by Rohese, Countess of Essex, and her second husband Payn de Beauchamp, Baron of Bedford. Payn and Rohese endowed the priory at its foundation with the church of Chicksands and other Bedfordshire lands.
