Alphonso de , Count of Ghesnes VERE

                   In 1086 Aubrey de Ver, the ancestor of the Earls of Oxford, in addtion tohis tenancies-in-chief in several counties, was an under-tenant ofGeoffrey bishop of Coutances in Kensington, Middlesex, and two places inNorthamptonshire.  This indicates that his place of origin was Ver (asindicated), which is 18 kil. South of Coutances and not Ver in theBessin.  [Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Families]

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Alberic/Aubrey de Ver (a place in the Cotentin Peninsula, Normandy),probably himself a Norman; b. by 1040; by the Domesday Survey heldnumerous manors, chiefly in Cambs, Essex, and Suffolk--Hedingham, Essexbeing the chief one, but also in Hunts, Middx (including Cheniston, nowKensington) and Northants; references to him as Chamberlain occur c1110;founded Earl's Colne Priory, Essex, where he and many of his descendantsare burried; Sheriff Berks by 1106; married Beatrice and died probably1112.  [Burke's Peerage]