Sir Oliver Vaux Knight

  General Notes:

~History of Queens College , "Vaux Pedigree", p. 106, gives his wife's name as Petronilla de la Mare. ⁷⁹¹

  Information about this person:

• Background Information. ⁷⁹²
Oliver de Vaux, was descended from Robert, the brother of Hubert who received the Barony of Gilesland. This branch of the family was settled in Norfolk. Oliver was the second of seven sons of Robert de Vaux, and on the death of his older brother, who died without issue, succeeded him to the estates. The date of his death is not recorded, but he lived beyond 1245, when he is mentioned in the Pipe Roll. By his wife Petronilla, the widow of Henry de Mara, and also of, William de Longchamp, he left several sons. The succession of this barony devolved on the eldest son, on the death of whose two son, William and John, died without male issue, fell into the hands of Oliver's fourth son Roger de Vaux.
~Biographia Juridica. A Biographical Dictionary of the Judges of England From the Conquest to the Present Time, 1066-1870, pp. 688-689

• Background Information. ⁸²⁹
Oliver de Vaux, was one of the barons in arms against King John. In the 13th of John's reign, Oliver paid five hundred marks, and five palfreys, for license to marry Petronill, a widown of William de Longchamp, daughter and heir of Guy de Croun, feudal lord of Croun, by whom he had three sons, Robert and William who died without children, and John, who succeed to the estates, but died in 1288 leaving two daughters. The estates then went to Roger, the next son of Oliver.
~Burke's A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Ireland, and Scotland, Extinct, Dormand and Abeyance, p. 532

Oliver married Petronilla de Craon, daughter of Guy de Craon and Isabel Basset. (Petronilla de Craon was born about 1198 in England and died in 1259-1260 in England.)