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After the death of her husband, Alice became a nun at St. Osyth's Priory, of which she was also a benefactor.

Robert has served as Sheriff of Norfolk before Michaelmas 1129.

Acccording to Sanders, "In 1162 and 1168 Bernard II answered for scutage on 30 knights' fees. He did not send in a charter in 1166 but later scutage was charged on 30 knights' fees," p. 25 note 5.

He "joined the northern barons in relieving Alnwick Castle, 1174." (Clay 5)

Clay says he died bet 1209-10. but this might be an error for the son with the same name.

He was a justice itinerant and a powerful baron; govenor of Bamburgh; at the Battle of the Standard, 22 Aug 1138; founded the abbeys of Alnwick, Old Maltan, and Watton; slain in Wales July 3, Henry II (1157). He was a great favorite with Henry I. Eustace first appears in records in 1116, Sanders p. 103.

He was lord of Knaresborough Castle.

She was the eldest daughter and heiress of Halton.
Agnes de Halton.

According to Burke, "Aubrey de Vere I was almost certainly a Norman who derived his name from Ver in the Cotentin and probably had connexions with the adjoining duchy of Brittany. He was b. probably before 1040. The Conquereor granted him, with other lands, the great estates of an English thegn named Wulfwine in Essex, Suffolk, and Cambridge. In 1084 he attested a royal charter for lessay as Aubrey the Chamberlain. In 1086 he held in chief 14 estates in Essex, with 2 houses and 3 acres in Colchester, 9 estates in Suffolk, 7 in Cambs, and 2 in Hunts. He also held Kensington in Middlesex and tow properties in Northants of the Bishop Coutances, lands in Hunts of the Abbey of Ramsey, and land in two places in Essex of Count Alan of Brittany. The head of his barony was at (Castle) Hedingham in Essex, where he had planted a vineyard. It is usualy assumed that he is identical with, and not the father of, the Aubrey de Vere who attested a writ at Westminster (Sep. 1102 to Easter 1103) and a charter for Abingdon (1101-06). Not later than 1106 he was acting as sheriff of Berkshire, being styled simply Aubrey. Within the next few years he was acting as justice in Northants, being styled Aubrey the Chamberlain, and as sheriff of Berkshire, being styled Aubrey de Berkshire. At the dying request of his eldest son, not later than 1106, he gave Abingdon Abbey his church of Kensington with its appurtenances and 2 hides and 1 yardland; but as he resided mostly in Essex, he founded a priory at Earls Colne as a cell of Abingdon. He seems to have held 1 1/2 knights' fees of the Abbey of St. Edmund. he m. Beatricce, whose parentage is unknown. He d. before 1113 (almost certainly in 1112), at Colne Priory, and was bur., with his wife, in the church there." CP X 193-95.