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 1516 - 1562 (~ 46 years)
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| Name |
John de Vere |
| Birth |
0___ 1516 |
(Castle Hedingham, Essex, England)  [1, 2] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
3 Aug 1562 [2] |
| Burial |
31 Aug 1562 |
Castle Hedingham, Essex, England [2] |
| Person ID |
I43481 |
The Hennessee Family |
| Last Modified |
5 Mar 2016 |
| Father |
Sir John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford, b. ~1482-1488, Castle Hedingham, Essex, England d. 21 Mar 1540, Wakes Colne, Essex, England (Age ~ 52 years) |
| Mother |
Elizabeth Trussell, b. (Yorkshire) England |
| Marriage |
10 Apr 1509 |
Bentley, Rowley near Hull, Yorkshire, England [2, 3] |
| Family ID |
F15784 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 1 |
Dorothy Neville, b. ~ 1523, (Yorkshire) England d. 6 Jan 1548 (Age ~ 25 years) |
| Marriage |
3 Jul 1536 |
Holywell, Shoreditch, London, England [2] |
| Children |
| | 1. Katherine de Vere, b. 0___ 1538, (Castle Hedingham, Essex, England) d. 0___ 1600 (Age ~ 62 years) |
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| Family ID |
F15782 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
30 Apr 2023 |
| Family 2 |
Margery Golding, b. England d. 2 Dec 1568, England |
| Marriage |
1 Aug 1548 |
Belchamp St Paul, Essex, England [1, 2] |
| Children |
| | 1. Sir Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, b. 12 Apr 1550, Castle Hedingham, Essex, England d. 24 Jun 1604, Kings Place, Hackney, London, England (Age 54 years) |
| | 2. Mary de Vere, b. Castle Hedingham, Essex, England |
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| Family ID |
F15781 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
30 Apr 2023 |
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| Notes |
- Career[edit]
While never of consequence in the Tudor court,[1] the 16th Earl's support for Queen Mary was instrumental in her accession to the throne in 1553,[2] though he was given no preferment by her.[3] During her reign he was active as the principal magnate in Essex.[4]
Family
He married first Dorothy Neville, daughter of Ralph Neville, 4th Earl of Westmorland in Holywell, Shoreditch, London on 3 July 1536, and second Margery Golding in Belchamp St Paul on 1 August 1548.[5] Dorothy Neville (died c. 6 January 1548),[6] His two marriages produced three children. With his first wife, Dorothy, he had Katherine de Vere, who married Edward Windsor, 3rd Baron Windsor. With Margery he had a son, Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, and a daughter, Mary de Vere. Margery died on 2 December 1568. After his death, he was buried in Castle Hedingham, Essex on 31 August 1562.
Cultural pursuits
The Earl was known as a sportsman, and like several noblemen of his day, he retained a company of actors. The troupe, known as Oxford's Men, was retained by the Earl from 1547 until his death in 1562.[7][8] His circle included the scholar and diplomat Sir Thomas Smith and his brothers-in-law, the poets Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey and Edmund Sheffield, 1st Baron Sheffield, and the translator Arthur Golding.[9]
References
Jump up ^ Nelson, Alan H. (2003), Monstrous Adversary: the life of Edward de Vere,17th Earl of Oxford, Liverpool University Press, ISBN 978-0-85323-678-8, p. 33.
Jump up ^ MacCulloch, Diarmaid (1984), The Vita Mariae Angliae Reginae of Robert Wingfield of Brantham, Royal Historical Society, pp. 263–4, 266.
Jump up ^ Loades, David (1989), Mary Tudor: A Life, Basil Blackwell, pp. 181–184.
Jump up ^ Nelson, 23.
Jump up ^ Essex Record Office T/R 168/2
Jump up ^ Nelson 2003, p. 15.
Jump up ^ Chambers, E. K. The Elizabethan Stage, 4 vols. (Oxford, 1923) II: 99.
Jump up ^ Nelson, pp. 13, 239.
Jump up ^ Ward, Bernard M. (1928), The Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, 1550–1604: From Contemporary Documents, John Murray, p. 10. [2]
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