Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford
17th Earl of Oxford, age 25 (1575).
Portrait in Paris, by unknown.
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full size.
From
Wikipedia
and
Tudor Place.
Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford,
wit and poet at court of
Elizabeth I,
born 12 Apr 1550.
See
wikipedia.
He succ as Earl when his father died in 1562.
He was made a ward of
William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
(whose dau he went on to marry).
He mar 1stly, 19 Dec 1571 [her age 15, him age 21]
to
Anne Cecil
[born 5th Dec 1556,
descendant of
King John].
It was an
unhappy marriage, including a separation of 5 years.
He had a
famous
quarrel
with
Sir Philip Sidney on
a tennis court, late 1579.
Anne died 5 June 1588, age 31 yrs,
at
Greenwich Palace (now gone),
near London.
She was
bur in
Cecil tomb at Westminster Abbey.
Her mother died 1589
and was buried with Anne.
17th Earl
mar 2ndly, 1591, to Elizabeth Trentham
and had issue.
He
had an estate, Bilton Hall,
in Warwickshire.
He had a
country home at King's Place,
in Hackney
village, near London (now part of London).
He died 24 June 1604, age 54 yrs, at King's Place, Hackney.
He was bur 6 July 1604,
St. Augustine's church,
Mare St,
Hackney.
See resources.
17th Earl had issue by 1st wife:
- Elizabeth de Vere,
born 1575.
- Bridget de Vere,
born 1584.
- Susan de Vere,
or Susannah,
written "Susanna" in the Latin on the
Cecil tomb at Westminster Abbey,
born 26 May 1587.
Her mother died when she was age 1.
She mar 27 Dec 1604 [her age 17]
to Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke and had issue.
Spectacular wedding at Whitehall.
Her father had just died.
James I gave her away.
Some records say they mar 4 Jan 1605 [new style year].
Birth of Susan de Vere in 1587, on
Cecil tomb at Westminster Abbey.
Death of Anne Cecil in 1588 at Greenwich, on
Cecil tomb at Westminster Abbey.
Effigy of Anne Cecil (in background).
Cecil tomb at Westminster Abbey.
Effigy of her mother Mildred Cooke
in foreground.
Photo 2012.
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and wider shot.
17th Earl of Oxford
Apparently 17th Earl of Oxford, think 1588.
Apparently by
Nicholas Hilliard.
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full size.
From
Tudor Place.
17th Earl of Oxford.
By
Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger.
Possession of The Duke of St. Albans.
This scan from Oxford Authorship Site .
The fart story
Hilarious story
in
[Aubrey's "Brief Lives"].
"This 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'"
Sources yet to be consulted
-
Dangerous Talk (2010)
by David Cressy
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".
- Places of death and burial of 17th Earl:
-
King's Place
(later Brooke House),
Hackney village, was demolished 1955.
The site is where Brooke Rd and Kenninghall Rd meet Clapton Rd
(see map).
-
St. Augustine's church, Hackney, was
demolished.
The 17th Earl's grave is gone.
A tower of the church survives.
See street view.
-
Earls of Oxford
(extinct 1702)
- "Oxfordian" theory (The idea that Oxford wrote Shakespeare's works)
