Family tree - de Vere - 17th Earl of Oxford |
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Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (see here and here),
see his poetry
and his letters,
unhappy marriage, including a separation of 5 years,
see his bisexual sexual exploits in Italy, 1575-6,
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,
see inscription on tomb,
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.
"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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