Robert Vere (died 1461)

Sir Robert Vere (died 1461), of Haccombe, was an English soldier and diplomat that was appointed as Seneschal of Gascony.

Arms of Robert Vere.[1]

Life

Vere was the second son of Richard de Vere, 11th Earl of Oxford and Alice Sergeaux. Knighted in 1426 and was Captain of Caen. He was appointed to the office of Seneschal of Gascony in 1441 and 1445. Vere as Captain of Caen, reinforced an English army in Normandy, under the command of Thomas Kyriell in 1450. A French army under the command of Jean de Bourbon, together with a force of Breton cavalry, under Arthur de Richemont, defeated the English army at the Battle of Formigny, [2] with the remnants of Vere’s force retreating to Caen.

He was killed in Cornwall in 1461.[3]

Marriage and issue

Robert married Joan, the widow of Nicholas Carew, daughter of Hugh Courtenay of Haccombe and Philippa Archdekne, they had the following known issue:

  • John Vere, married Alice Colbroke, had issue.
  • Joan Vere

Citations
  1. The Notebook of Tristram Risdon 1608-1628, James Dallas, Henry G. Porter, London 1897. p. 106.
  2. Wagner 2006, p. 128.
  3. Richardson 2011, p. 194.

References
  • Richardson, Douglas (2011). Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families (2nd ed.). ISBN 9781461045137.
  • Wagner, John A. (2006). Encyclopedia of the Hundred Years War. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0313327360.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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