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 OXFORD(a) or OXENFORD (County of).

[, only s. and h. of, the s. and h. of "Ironside,” Anglo-Saxon King Of England (1016), is sometimes said to have been confirmed as , after the Conquest, by William I., such Earldom having been, according to Milles (Cat. of Honour), granted to him by King Harold. This statement, however, appears to be utterly groundless, and is not mentioned by Brooke, who, doubtless, had he ventured to do so, would have been promptly contradicted by Vincent.]

1. AUBREY DE VERE, Great Chamberlain of England, s. and h. of Aubrey de Vere(c), also Great Chamberlain (no constituted(d) 1133) by Adeliza, da. of Gilbert, was b. about 1120; suc. his father, May 1141, in the vast estates of the family in Essex, Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire, Suffolk and Middlesex, and having m. (before her grandfather's death) Beatrice(e), suo jure grandda. and heir of Manasses, (who d. s.p.m. about 1139), she being da, and h. of his only child (Rose or Sybil, who d. v.p), by Henry, Castellan of Bourbourg, became in her right COUNT OF GUISNES,(f)