Career
Aubrey II served as one of the king"s chamberlains and as a justiciar under kings Henry I and Stephen. Henry I also appointed him as sheriff of London and Essex and co-sheriff with Richard Basset of eleven counties. In June 1133, that king awarded the office of master chamberlain to Aubrey and his heirs.
A frequent witness of royal charters for Henry I and Stephen, he appears to have accompanied Henry to Normandy only once.
In May 1141, during the English civil war, Aubrey was killed by a London mob and was buried in the family mausoleum at Colne Priory, Essex. In addition to his patronage of Colne Priory, the new master chamberlain either founded a cell of the Benedictine abbey Saint Melanie in Rennes, Brittany, at Hatfield Broadoak or Hatfield Regis, Essex, or took on the primary patronage of that community soon after it was founded.
Foreign most of that time she was a corrodian at Saint Osyth"s Priory, Chich, Essex. Their known children are:
Aubrey de Vere, 1st Earl of Oxford (married 1 Beatrice, countess of Guisnes, 2 Eufemia, 3 Agnes of Essex)
Rohese de Vere, Countess of Essex (married 1 Geoffrey de Mandeville, 1st Earl of Essex, 2 Payn de Beauchamp)
Robert (married 1 Matilda de Furnell, 2 Margaret daughter of Baldwin Wake)
Alice "of Essex" (married 1 Robert of Essex, 2 Roger fitz Richard)
Geoffrey (married 1 widow of Warin fitz Gerold, 2 Isabel de Say)
Juliana Countess of Norfolk (married 1 Hugh Bigod, 1st Earl of Norfolk, 2 Walkelin Maminot)
William de Vere, Bishop of Hereford (1186-1198)
Gilbert, prior of the Knights Hospitaller in England (1195-1197)
a daughter (name unknown) who married Roger de Ramis.