Thomas (de Vere), 8th Earl of Oxford

circa 1337 - 1371  (~ 34 years)

• Name	Thomas (de Vere)  [1]
  Suffix	8th Earl of Oxford
  Born	circa 1336/37  [2]
  Gender	Male
  Hereditary Title	1360  [3]
  	8th Earl of Oxford [E., 1142]
  Office	Hereditary Chamberlain of England  [3]
  Will	1 Aug. 1371	Great Bentley, Essex, England   [4]
  	He directed burial in the chapel of St. Peter on the N. side of the church. He bequeathed all his relics to his wife; to his son Robert, much silver plate &c.; to his brother Aubrey, a steel haubergeon, &c. [4]
  Died	Sept. 1371	Great Bentley, Essex, England   [5]
  Probate	27 Sept. 1371  [4]
  Person ID	I613	British Peerage & Gentry
  Last Modified	4 March 2019

  
  

  Father	John (de Vere), 7th Earl of Oxford,   b. circa 12 March 1311/12,   d. 23/24 Jan. 1359/60, Rheims, France  (Age ~ 47 years)
  Mother	Hon. Maud de Badlesmere
  Married	Before 27 March 1336  [6]
  Family ID	F505	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Maud de Ufford,   d. 25 Jan. 1412/13
  Married	Before 10 June 1350  [7]
  Children	1. Robert (de Vere), Duke of Ireland, 9th Earl of Oxford,   b. 16 Jan. 1361/62,   d. 1392, Louvain  (Age 29 years)
  Last Modified	4 March 2019
  Family ID	F329	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Heraldry

  Arms of de Vere (Earl of Oxford) Quarterly, Gules and Or, in the 1st quarter a mullet Argent. Source: Burke's General Armory, last ed. (1884), Fourth Impression (London: Heraldry Today, 1984), page 1054.

  
  

• Sources

  [S8] BP 1970, Peter Townend (ed.), (London: Burke's Peerage Ltd., 1970), page lii. [S22] The Complete Peerage, G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume X, page 226. The returns of his age in the inq. p. m. of his father and mother vary considerably. [S22] The Complete Peerage, G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume X, page 226. [S22] The Complete Peerage, G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume X, page 227. Citing Reg. Sudbury (Cant. and York Soc.), volume i, pages 4–6. [S22] The Complete Peerage, G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume X, pages 226–227. Citing Chanc. Inq. p. m., 45 Edw. III, 1st nos., no. 45; Cal. Fine Rolls, volume viii, page 153. On an erroneous supposition of his death, writs had been issued to the escheators 25 July 1370 (Idem, page 104). [S22] The Complete Peerage, G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume X, page 223. Citing Cal. Patent Rolls, 1334–38, page 233. [S22] The Complete Peerage, G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume X, page 226. Citing Cal. Close Rolls, 1348–50, page 511, which refers to his father and mother having licence to entail Chesham, Buckinghamshire, on him and his wife.