[2] William de Vere was promised the chancellorship of England by the Empress Matilda in the 1141 charter by which his brother was made earl, but given the political and military setbacks she suffered in that and subsequent years, it is not surprising that there is no record that he served as her chancellor.
[1] King Henry later employed de Vere as an itinerant justice,[5] then nominated him as Bishop of Hereford on 25 May 1186.
[8] As a canon at St. Osyth's, de Vere wrote a Latin life of that saint,[1] which now exists only in fragments recorded by antiquarian John Leland in the sixteenth century.
[1] De Vere was one of several bishops who excommunicated Prince John and his supporters in 1194, and was present at Winchester Cathedral for the recoronation of King Richard I in April 1194.
William de Vere died in December 1198 and is buried in Hereford Cathedral, where his tomb with an effigy can be found.