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17th Earl of Oxford



17th Earl of Oxford, age 25 (1575). See full size.
Portrait in Paris, by unknown. Duke of Portland Collection at Welbeck Abbey.
This scan is from Tudor Place.
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Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (see here and here),
wit and poet at court of Elizabeth I,
born 12th Apr 1550, at family seat of Castle Hedingham, Colne, N of Halstead, Essex,
succ 1562, made a ward of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, whose dau he went on to marry,
educ Cambridge and Oxford,
mar 1stly, 19th Dec 1571 [her age 15, him age 21] to Anne Cecil [born 5th Dec 1556, descendant of King John] and had issue:


  1. Susan de Vere, born 26th May 1587,
    mar 27th Dec 1604 [her age 17, spectacular wedding at Whitehall, her father had just died, James I gave her away]
    to Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke and had issue.


see his poetry and his letters,
unhappy marriage, including a separation of 5 years,
see his bisexual sexual exploits in Italy, 1575-76,
[Dangerous Talk, David Cressy, 2010] tells the amusing story of two Dutchmen who were gaoled at Colchester in 1577 for speaking "lewd words of the Earl of Oxford", they were released when they said they were sorry, "that they mistook him for the Earl of Westmorland",
famous quarrel with Sir Philip Sidney over the rights to a tennis court, late 1579,
Anne died 5th June 1588, age 31 yrs,
bur Westminster Abbey; her mother died the following year and was buried with Anne; her father put a small kneeling statue of himself on their monument with the inscription: "his eyes dim with tears for the loss of those who were dear to him beyond the whole race of womankind.",

mar 2ndly, 1591, and had issue,
had an estate, Bilton Hall, on the Avon River,
country home at Kings Place (since demolished, was at junction of Brooke Rd and (Upper) Clapton Rd, see map) in Hackney village, nr London (now part of London, apparently near the village of Stratford),
died 24th June 1604, age 54 yrs, at Kings Place,
bur 6th July, St. Augustine's church (since demolished, grave now gone, was on Mare St nr Hackney Central station, see map) in Hackney.
See resources and articles and biography.




17th Earl of Oxford.
By Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger. Possession of The Duke of St. Albans.
This scan from Oxford Authorship Site .




"The Earl of Oxford, making of his low obeisance to Queen Elizabeth happened to let a Fart, at which he was so abashed and ashamed that he went to travel, seven years. On his return the Queen welcomed him home and said, 'My Lord, I had forgot the Fart'"
- "Brief Lives" by John Aubrey, late 17th Century.





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