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hedingham of oxford castle , essex , seat of the earls aubrey de vere , 1st earl of oxford 1214 burial in colne priory agnes of essex c. 1163 roger de vere -lrb- illegitimate -rrb- isabel de bolebec alice snowykeepsm.jpg aubrey de vere , 2nd earl of oxford
 aubrey de vere , 2nd earl of oxford
aubrey de vere , 2nd earl of oxford

aubrey de vere , 2nd earl of oxford -lrb- c. 1163 -- 1214 -rrb- , hereditary master chamberlain of england , was the eldest son and heir of aubrey de vere , 1st earl of oxford , by his third wife , agnes of essex .
he served in military campaigns under king richard and king john .
he was succeeded in the earldom by his brother , robert de vere , 3rd earl of oxford .
aubrey de vere , the eldest son and heir of aubrey de vere , 1st earl of oxford , by his third wife , agnes of essex , the daughter of henry of essex , lord of rayleigh , was born in 1163 or later .
he had three brothers , ralph , robert and henry , and a sister , alice .
his brother ralph predeceased him , and his brother robert succeeded him as 3rd earl in 1214 .
the first notice of aubrey de vere is as a young boy witnessing his father 's charters for colne priory .
in 1194 vere was with king richard i in france , and later that year he succeeded to the earldom , on the death of his father on 26 december 1194 .
in 1195 he was assessed to pay 500 marks towards the ransom of king richard , who was being held captive by the emperor henry vi .
in 1197 oxford was again with the king in normandy when a dispute was litigated between abbot samson of bury st edmunds and some fifty tenants of the abbey , including the earl of oxford .
ultimately most of the tenants came to the king 's court in london and acknowledged the abbey 's right to certain feudal dues .
oxford , the last to hold out , was forced to comply when the abbot seized and sold his plough-beasts .
in 1204 oxford paid 200 marks for the third penny of oxfordshire and ` that he might be earl of oxford ' , a confirmation of the title which had been granted to his father in july 1141 by the empress matilda during a time of civil war .
the title had already confirmed to his father by matilda 's son , king henry ii and aubrey iii had been acknowledged earl of oxford by richard i and john .
this payment five years after john took the throne is thus unusual and suggests unknown political circumstances requiring the earl to purchase the king 's goodwill .
in march 1208 pope innocent iii placed england under an interdict as a result of king john 's refusal to accept stephen langton as archbishop of canterbury .
at the time of the interdict oxford is said to have been regarded as one of the king 's ` evil counsellors ' .
in the summer of 1209 he was among the courtiers who met the pope 's agents in dover to try to prevent king john 's excommunication .
their mission failed ; pope innocent excommunicated the king in november of that year .
in what may have been his last military service , the earl of oxford was with king john 's forces during a nine-week campaign in ireland from june to august 1210 .
among other appointments , oxford was keeper of the manor of havering in 1208 , sheriff of essex and hertfordshire from 1208 to 1213 , and steward of the forest of essex in 1213 .
on 20 june 1213 he had the king 's greyhounds in his charge .
oxford died in 1214 , in or before the month of october , and was buried at colne priory .
he was succeeded by his younger brother , robert de vere , 3rd earl of oxford , one of the guarantors of magna carta .
