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Alice Colbroke
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Alice Colbroke was a daughter and coheir of Walter Colbroke by Jane Tresithny, and she married John de Vere, bringing a Cornish inheritance into the Oxford family. She is the second of the two Cornish heiresses in this line, a century after Alice Sergeaux, and between them they twice rescued and enriched an Essex earldom.
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✓ DOCUMENTED (Kresen Kernow AR/1/851, 1531; CP vol. X p.245: "Alice, da. and coh. of Walter Kilrington, otherwise Colbroke"): ALICE, dau. (and coheir with her sister Jane Uppeton) of WALTER KILRINGTON otherwise COLBROKE by JANE TRESITHNY; m. John de Vere; MOTHER OF THE 15TH EARL OF OXFORD. A Cornish gentry heiress whose grandson wore the oldest earldom in England. Direct ancestress. Added 22 Jul 2026.