John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford, KG, PC

1490 - 1540  (~ 50 years)

• Name	John de Vere
  		Arms de Vere Quarterly Gules and Or, in the first quarter a mullet Argent.
  Suffix	15th Earl of Oxford, KG, PC
  Born	ca. 1490  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	21 Mar 1540	Wakes Colne, Essex   [1]
  Buried	Castle Hedingham, Braintee, Essex
  Person ID	I14182	Dickinson
  Last Modified	2 Feb 2017

  
  

  Father	John de Vere
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Alice Kilrington
  Relationship	Birth
  Family ID	F4298	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Trussell, Countess of Oxford ,   b. 1496,   bur. Church of St Nicholas, Castle Hedingham, Essex
  Children	1. John de Vere, 16th Earl of Oxford,   b. ca. 1512,   d. 3 Aug 1562  (Age ~ 50 years)  [Birth] + 2. Frances de Vere, Countess of Surrey,   b. ca. 1516,   d. 30 Jun 1577  (Age ~ 61 years)  [Birth] + 3. Aubrey de Vere,   b. ca. 1519, Castle Hedingham, Essex, England ,   d. 1579  (Age ~ 60 years)  [Birth]   4. Robert de Vere,   b. ca. 1520  [Birth]   5. Anne de Vere,   b. ca. 1522,   d. 14 Feb 1572  (Age ~ 50 years)  [Birth]   6. Geoffrey de Vere,   b. ca. 1523  [Birth]
  Last Modified	13 Mar 2015
  Family ID	F4296	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Died - 21 Mar 1540 - Wakes Colne, Essex Buried - - Castle Hedingham, Braintee, Essex  = Link to Google Earth
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• Histories

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• Sources

  [S336351] Dictionary of National Biography, 63 volumes, Sir Sidney Lee, ed., (New York: McMillan and Company, 1885-1900), Public Domain., 58: 242. "VERE, JOHN de, sixteenth Earl of Oxford (1512?-1562), born about 1512, was eldest son of John de Vere, fifteenth earl of Oxford (1490?-1540), by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Edward (or John) Trussell of Cublesdon, Staffordshire. His father (a cousin of John de Vere, fourteenth earl, often called 'Little John of Campes,' 1499?-1526), was esquire of the body to Henry VIII in 1510; was knighted by the king on 25 Feb. 1513 at the Battle of the Spurs; was created K.G. on 21 Oct. 1527; took a prominent part, as a friend of the king, in the measures against Wolsey and Catherine of Aragon; bore the crown at the coronation of Anne Boleyn, and acted as a commissioner at her trial. He was the first protestant earl of Oxford, and was popularly known as 'the good earl.' He died at his manor of Earls Colne on 21 March 1540, and was buried at Castle Hedingham on 12 April. An altar-tomb in black marble is adorned with effigies of himself and his countess in an attitude of prayer, surrounded by their four sons and four daughters. Of his younger sons, Aubrey was great-grandfather of Aubrey de Vere, twentieth earl [q. v.], while Geoffrey was father of Sir Francis Vere [q. v.] and of Sir Horace Vere [q. v.]"