Robert de Vere

Robert De Vere

• Birth: 1198
• Death: 1261
• Father: Robert de Vere
• (Half-)Brother: Hugh de Vere
• Son: Baldwin de Vere

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Robert de Vere († 1250)

Robert de Vere († February 8 1250 in Mansura ) was an English Crusader in the 13th Century.

He belonged to a 200-strong British contingent led by William (II) Longespée, Earl of Salisbury, which had joined the Crusade of the French king Louis IX. (Saint Louis) to Egypt ( Seventh Crusade) in October 1249 at Damietta. De Vere was the standard-bearer to the Earl of Salisbury, and was killed with him on 8th February 1250 at the fateful attack of Count Robert of Artois on the city of Mansura. [1]

Whether his body, along with Salisbury's, was returned from the Mamluks to Louis IX, is unclear. Nevertheless, there is in the Church of Sudborough in Northamptonshire a tomb for Robert de Vere, including a recumbent figure, which shows him as a knight with a cross on the shield, probably a St. George's Cross . [2]

What relationship Robert de Vere had to the de Vere Earls of Oxford, is also undetermined. Possibly he was a descendant of Robert de Vere of Twywell, a younger son of Aubrey II de Vere, who was a wealthy landowner in Northamptonshire and had offspring.

Literature

   Christopher Tyerman: England and the Crusades, 1095-1588 (1996), pp. 109-110 

References

1. ↑ Matthew Paris , Chronica Majora, ed. by Henry Richard Luard in Rolls Series 57.5 (1880), pp. 76 and 148
2. ↑ William Lisle Bowles, John Gough Nichols: Annals and antiquities of Lacock abbey: in the county of Wilts (1835), pp. 262-263