Rohese de Vere, Countess of Essex (c. 1110 – 1170 or after) was a noblewoman in England in the Anglo-Norman and Angevin periods.
[2] Rohese's second husband was Payn de Beauchamp, lord of Bedford,[3] who had fought against King Stephen.
[4] The couple founded a double monastery at Chicksands, Bedfordshire, for nuns and canons of the Gilbertine Order.
Countess Rohese was at Chicksands Priory when a member of the entourage escorting the earl's body arrived to inform her of her son's death.
She witnessed a charter of her son Earl William in 1170, the last evidence of her life which can be dated, and when she died she was buried in the Chicksands chapter house and honored as the priory's foundress.