 They founded Colne Priory, the only cell of Abingdon, in order to have monks of that house close to them and as a family mausoleum.About 1112 Aubrey I retired to the priory, joined by his youngest son, William de Vere, both of whom died there shortly thereafter.Colne Priory became the principal burial place of the earls of Oxford, with all but a few buried there to 1703.