Biography of Robert de Vere 6th Earl of Oxford 1257-1331

Paternal Family Tree: Vere

Maternal Family Tree: Alice Sanford Countess of Oxford

Before 22nd February 1252 [his father] Robert de Vere 5th Earl of Oxford (age 12) and [his mother] Alice Sanford Countess of Oxford were married. She by marriage Countess of Oxford. He the son of [his grandfather] Hugh de Vere 4th Earl of Oxford (age 44) and [his grandmother] Hawise Quincy Countess Oxford.

On 24th June 1257 Robert de Vere 6th Earl of Oxford was born to Robert de Vere 5th Earl of Oxford (age 17) and Alice Sanford Countess of Oxford.

Before 1282 Robert de Vere 6th Earl of Oxford (age 24) and Margaret Mortimer Countess of Oxford were married. She by marriage Countess of Oxford. He the son of Robert de Vere 5th Earl of Oxford (age 41) and Alice Sanford Countess of Oxford. They were fifth cousins. She a great x 2 granddaughter of King John of England.

Around 1282 [his son] Thomas de Vere was born to Robert de Vere 6th Earl of Oxford (age 24) and [his wife] Margaret Mortimer Countess of Oxford. He a great x 3 grandson of King John of England.

In 1291 [his sister-in-law] Isabella Mortimer Countess Arundel died.

In 1296 [his father] Robert de Vere 5th Earl of Oxford (age 56) died. In His son Robert (age 38) succeeded 6th Earl of Oxford.

In 1297 [his wife] Margaret Mortimer Countess of Oxford died.

22nd July 1298 Battle of Falkirk

                    On 22nd July 1298 King Edward I of England (age 59) defeated the Scottish army led by William Wallace during the 22nd July 1298 Battle of Falkirk at Falkirk [Map] using archers to firstly attack the Scottish shiltrons with the heavy cavalry with infantry completing the defeat.
                
                    John de Graham (age 31) and John Stewart of Bonkyll (age 52) were killed.
                
                    The English were described in the Falkirk Roll that lists 111 men with their armorials including:
                
                    Guy Beauchamp 10th Earl Warwick (age 26).
                
                    Walter Beauchamp (age 55).
                
                    Roger Bigod 5th Earl Norfolk (age 53).
                
                    Humphrey Bohun 3rd Earl Hereford 2nd Earl Essex (age 49).
                
                    Robert Clifford 1st Baron Clifford (age 24).
                
                    Hugh "Elder" Despencer 1st Earl Winchester (age 37).
                
                    William Ferrers 1st Baron Ferrers of Groby (age 26).
                
                    Thomas Berkeley 6th and 1st Baron Berkeley (age 52).
                
                    Maurice Berkeley 7th and 2nd Baron Berkeley (age 27).
                
                    Henry Grey 1st Baron Grey of Codnor (age 43).
                
                    Reginald Grey 1st Baron Grey of Wilton (age 58).
                
                    John Grey 2nd Baron Grey of Wilton (age 30).
                
                    John Mohun 1st Baron Dunster (age 29).
                
                    Simon Montagu 1st Baron Montagu (age 48).
                
                    Roger Mortimer 1st Earl March (age 11).
                
                    William Ros 1st Baron Ros Helmsley (age 43).
                
                    John Segrave 2nd Baron Segrave (age 42).
                
                    Nicholas Segrave (age 42).
                
                    Robert de Vere 6th Earl of Oxford (age 41).
                
                    Alan Zouche 1st Baron Zouche Ashby (age 30).
                
                    Thomas Plantagenet 2nd Earl of Leicester, 2nd Earl Lancaster, Earl of Salisbury and Lincoln (age 20).
                
                    Henry Plantagenet 3rd Earl of Leicester 3rd Earl Lancaster (age 17).
                
                    John Warenne 6th Earl of Surrey (age 67).
                
                    Henry Percy 9th and 1st Baron Percy (age 25).
                
                    Hugh Courtenay 1st or 9th Earl Devon (age 21).
                
                    Richard Fitzalan 1st or 8th Earl of Arundel (age 31).
                
                    Henry Beaumont Earl Buchan (age 19).
                
                    John Capet II Duke Brittany (age 59).
                
                    Philip Darcy (age 40).
                
                    Robert Fitzroger.
                
                    Robert Fitzwalter 1st Baron Fitzwalter (age 51), or possiby a Roger Fitzwalter?.
                
                    Simon Fraser.
                
                    Aymer de Valence 2nd Earl Pembroke (age 23).
                
                    John Wake 1st Baron Wake of Liddell (age 30), and.
                
                    Henry Lacy 4th Earl Lincoln, Earl Salisbury (age 47).
                
                    William Scrope (age 53) was knighted.
                
                    John Moels 1st Baron Moels (age 29) fought.
                
                    John Lovell 1st Baron Lovel (age 44) fought.

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Scalacronica. 22nd July 1298. The said English lords recovered the said town of Berwick, and held it until the arrival of the King, who, returning from Gascony, approached Scotland in great force, entered it by Roxburgh, advanced to Templeliston and Linlithgow, and so towards Stirling, where William Wallace, who had mustered all the power of Scotland, lay in wait and undertook to give battle to the said King of England. They fought on this side of Falkirk on the day of the Magdalene in the year of grace 1298, when the Scots were defeated. Wherefore it was said long after that William Wallace had brought them to the revel if they would have danced.

Walter, brother of the Steward of Scotland, who had dismounted [to fight] on foot among the commons, was slain with more than ten thousand of the commons.¹ William Wallace, who was on horseback, fled with the other Scottish lords who were present. At this battle, Antony de Bek, Bishop of Durham, who was with King Edward of England, had such abundance of retinue that in his column there were thirty-two banners and a trio of earls — the Earl of Warwick (age 26), the Earl of Oxford (age 41), and the Earl of Angus (age 53).

Note 1. It was Sir John Stewart of Bonkill (age 52) who was thus slain, at the head of his Selkirk bowmen. Gray's estimate of the slain is more reasonable than that of clerical writers. Walsingham puts the number at 60,000, probably three times as much as Wallace's whole force: Hemingburgh reduces it to 56,000.

Before 7th June 1315 [his son] Thomas de Vere (age 33) and [his daughter-in-law] Agnes Ros Baroness Tibetot were married. He the son of Robert de Vere 6th Earl of Oxford (age 57) and [his former wife] Margaret Mortimer Countess of Oxford. They were half fifth cousins. He a great x 3 grandson of King John of England.

On 17th April 1331 Robert de Vere 6th Earl of Oxford (age 73) died. His nephew John (age 19) succeeded 7th Earl of Oxford.