DE VERE, Rohese

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Rohese is a member is a member of the House of De Vere.

Payn was both outlived and overshadowed by his wife, Rohese, who had previously been married to the powerful Geoffrey de Mandeville. The connection between the two families remained close for some time, with the Beauchamps adopting a variation of the Mandeville arms. In common with most of their contemporaries the earlier Beauchamps had already made grants to religious houses, including St Albans and Bermondsey, but the Beauchamps' patronage of the church now moved onto a new plane with the foundation of a priory for Gilbertine nuns at Chicksands, Bedfordshire, c.1150. Although her husband, Payn, was associated with her in early charters, Rohese was always spoken of as the founder. Her support for the priory and her forceful personality were vividly illustrated by her response to the death of her son from her first marriage, Geoffrey de Mandeville. After his death his men tried to take his body to Walden, Essex, for burial at the abbey founded by his father. On hearing this Rohese gathered a band of armed retainers and caught up with the cortège, ordering it to go instead to Chicksands. However, early the next morning her son's servants turned the bier around and took it to Walden Abbey before Rohese could prevent it. Thwarted in her efforts to have her son's body in her own chosen burial place, Rohese retaliated by taking all the furnishings of Geoffrey's private chapel for Chicksands. Rohese was also closely involved in the early stages of the foundation (c.1166) of Newnham Priory by her son Simon [ii] de Beauchamp (c.1145-1206/7). This conversion of the college of secular canons at St Paul's, Bedford, into a community of regular Augustinian canons was part of the widespread contemporary movement towards the regular monastic orders. It has traditionally been linked with the case of Philip de Broy, a canon of Bedford accused of homicide. The failure of the church courts to deal adequately with his case was one of the grievances of Henry II against Thomas Becket, and this notorious incident may have acted as a catalyst by attracting attention to Bedford. Simon was a generous patron of the church; he made several additions to Newnham's original endowment, and also made grants to Warden Abbey, Chicksands Priory, and the hospital of St John at Bedford.
Sources

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Farrer, William & Brownbill, J. The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster (Archibald Constable and Co. Limited, London, 1906) Vol. 1, Page 300
Royal Ancestry D. Richardson 2013 Vol. IV p. 560-561
Round, John. Geoffrey de Mandeville, A Study of the Anarchy (Longmans, Green & Co., London and New York, 1892) Page 332
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Rohese married Pagan DE BEAUCHAMP, son of Robert DE BEAUCHAMP and Unknown, after 1144. (Pagan DE BEAUCHAMP was born about 1109 and died before 1165.)