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| | The de Vere Star |
 | | The de Vere line was certainly long, but it was not so illustrious perhaps as the Howards, the Percys, the Mortimers and the Talbots, and in their antiquity they were equalled by the Beauchamps, the Bruces, the Courtenays, the Setons and the Stewarts among many others. |
 | | His son, Aubrey II, supported Maud in her war with Stephen and was rewarded by the grant of the Earldom of Cambridge "provided that that dignity was not vested in the King of Scots" (which it was) and her son, Henry II, confirmed him in the earldom of Oxford in its stead. |
 | | The de Vere family adopted the star as a badge in addition to a charge in the first quarter of their arms, and thus it appeared on their standards and was worn by their armies. |
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