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Vere, Edward de (1550 - 1604)

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Born / Died

Birth Date: 1550-04-12
Death Date: 1604-06-24

Notes

Ward of Sir William Cecil, 1562--12 April 1571. Imprisoned in the Tower for affair with Anne Vavasour ca. March--8 June 1581

Parents

Marriages/Other Unions

  1. Cecil, Anne (1556 - 1588)
    Type: marriage
    Union began: 1571-12-19
    Union ended: n.d.
  2. Trentham, Elizabeth (1576 - 1612/13)
    Type: marriage
    Union began: 1591-12-27
    Union ended: n.d.
  3. Vavasour, Anne ( - 1621)
    Type: other
    Union began: 1579
    Union ended: n.d.

Siblings

Offspring

Primary Title

  • 17th Earl of Oxford

Titles

  • 17th Earl of Oxford
    Assumed: 1562-08-03
    Vacated: 1604-06-24
  • Lord Bolebec
    Assumed: 1550-04-12
    Vacated: 1562-08-03

Details of Offices

Began Ended Notes
Lord Great Chamberlain, England 1562 -8 -3 1604 -06 -24 Hereditary office
Chief Commissioner of Musters, Essex 1579
Keeper, Essex 1603 -7 -18 1604 -06 -24
Steward, Essex 1603 -7 -18 1604 -06 -24 Also called Essex Forest

Details of Properties

Residence

  • Plaistow House, Essex
    De Vere apparently built a house here in the late 1580s--early 1590s
  • Wivenhoe, Essex
    Acquired: 1571
    Divested: 1584
    Patrimony; sold
  • The Savoy, London (city-county)
    Acquired: 1571-12
    Resident here after marriage; maintained residence here at least until 1576 and probably beyond
  • Fisher's Folly, London (city-county)
    Acquired: 1580
    Divested: 1588
    Purchased; sold
  • Stoke Newington, Middlesex
    Acquired: 1592
    Divested: 1597

Lands

  • Essex
    Major holdings: most sold between 1579--85
  • Essex: Castle Hedingham
    Acquired: 1571
    Divested: 1591-12-02
    Patrimony; alienated to father-in-law William Cecil, Baron Burghley, and put in trust for de Vere's daughters
  • Essex: Earls Colne Manor
    Divested: 1584-09-01
    Sold
  • Essex: Earls Colne Priory
    Acquired: 1588-06-08
    Divested: 1592
    Granted; sold
  • London (city-county): Vere (or Oxford) House
    Acquired: 1571
    Divested: 1598
    On Candlewick Street at London Stone. Patrimony, but controlled by the Earl of Leicester during wardship; title validated by royal grant 11 June 1572; sold

Event Naming Patron

Event Type Date Location Troupe
Performance - Coventry (Unknown), Coventry, Coventry (city-county) in Warwickshire Earl of Oxford's Bearward
Performance - Guildhall, Oxford, Oxfordshire Earl of Oxford's Musicians
Performance - Guildhall (2), Barnstaple, Devon Earl of Oxford's Musicians
Dismissal - Cambridge (Unknown), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire Earl of Oxford's Players
Performance - Dover (Unknown), Dover, Kent Earl of Oxford's Players
Performance - Common Hall, Norwich, Norwich (city-county) in Norfolk Earl of Oxford's Players
Performance - St Mary's Guildhall, Coventry, Coventry (city-county) in Warwickshire Earl of Oxford's Players
Performance - Hythe (Unknown), Hythe, Kent Earl of Oxford's Players
Performance - Guildhall, Bristol, Bristol (city-county) in Gloucestershire Earl of Oxford's Players
Performance - Norwich (Unknown), Norwich, Norwich (city-county) in Norfolk Earl of Oxford's Players
Performance - St Mary's Guildhall, Coventry, Coventry (city-county) in Warwickshire Earl of Oxford's Players
Performance - Guildhall, Bath, Somerset Earl of Oxford's Players
Performance - Town Hall, Liverpool, Lancashire Earl of Oxford's Players
Performance - St Mary's Guildhall, Coventry, Coventry (city-county) in Warwickshire Earl of Oxford's Players
Performance - Guildhall, Exeter, Exeter (city-county) in Devon Earl of Oxford's Players
Performance - Guildhall, Bristol, Bristol (city-county) in Gloucestershire Earl of Oxford's Players
Performance - Boothall, Gloucester, Gloucestershire Earl of Oxford's Players
Performance - Guildhall, Abingdon, Berkshire Earl of Oxford's Players
Performance - Dover (Unknown), Dover, Kent Earl of Oxford's Players
Performance - Common Hall, Norwich, Norwich (city-county) in Norfolk Earl of Oxford's Players
Performance - St Mary's Guildhall, Coventry, Coventry (city-county) in Warwickshire Earl of Oxford's Players
Performance - Town Hall, Bridgwater, Somerset Earl of Oxford's Players
Performance - Town Hall, Fordwich, Kent Earl of Oxford's Players
Performance - Boothall, Gloucester, Gloucestershire Earl of Oxford's Players
Performance - Lyme Regis (Unknown), Lyme Regis, Dorset Earl of Oxford's Players
Performance - Guildhall, Exeter, Exeter (city-county) in Devon Earl of Oxford's Players
Performance - Guildhall, Bath, Somerset Earl of Oxford's Players
Performance - Ludlow (Unknown), Ludlow, Shropshire Earl of Oxford's Players
Performance - Guildhall, Faversham, Kent Earl of Oxford's Players
Performance - Boothall, Gloucester, Gloucestershire Earl of Oxford's Players
Dismissal - Norwich (Unknown), Norwich, Norwich (city-county) in Norfolk Earl of Oxford's Players
Performance - Guildhall, Totnes, Devon Earl of Oxford's Players
Performance - St Mary's Guildhall, Coventry, Coventry (city-county) in Warwickshire Earl of Oxford's Players
Performance - Town Hall, Maidstone, Kent Earl of Oxford's Players
Performance - Dover (Unknown), Dover, Kent Earl of Oxford's Players
Performance - Guildhall, Bath, Somerset Earl of Oxford's Players
Performance - Lyme Regis (Unknown), Lyme Regis, Dorset Earl of Oxford's Players
Performance - Common Hall, York, York (city-county) in Yorkshire Earl of Oxford's Players
Performance - Common Hall, Norwich, Norwich (city-county) in Norfolk Earl of Oxford's Players
Performance - Guildhall, Faversham, Kent Earl of Oxford's Players

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name Patron Troupe Type # of events
Earl of Oxford's Players Vere, Edward de (1550 - 1604) Players 1
Earl of Oxford's Players Vere, Edward de (1550 - 1604) Players 1
Earl of Oxford's Players Vere, Edward de (1550 - 1604) Players 1
Earl of Oxford's Players Vere, Edward de (1550 - 1604) Players 1
Earl of Oxford's Players Vere, Edward de (1550 - 1604) Players 1
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Earl of Oxford's Players Vere, Edward de (1550 - 1604) Players 1
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Earl of Oxford's Players Vere, Edward de (1550 - 1604) Players 1
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Earl of Oxford's Players Vere, Edward de (1550 - 1604) Players 1
Earl of Oxford's Players Vere, Edward de (1550 - 1604) Players 1
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Earl of Oxford's Players Vere, Edward de (1550 - 1604) Players 1
Earl of Oxford's Players Vere, Edward de (1550 - 1604) Players 1
Earl of Oxford's Players Vere, Edward de (1550 - 1604) Players 1
Earl of Oxford's Players Vere, Edward de (1550 - 1604) Players 1
Earl of Oxford's Players Vere, Edward de (1550 - 1604) Players 1
Earl of Oxford's Players Vere, Edward de (1550 - 1604) Players 1
Earl of Oxford's Players Vere, Edward de (1550 - 1604) Players 1
Earl of Oxford's Players Vere, Edward de (1550 - 1604) Players 1
Earl of Oxford's Players Vere, Edward de (1550 - 1604) Players 1
Earl of Oxford's Players Vere, Edward de (1550 - 1604) Players 1
Earl of Oxford's Players Vere, Edward de (1550 - 1604) Players 1
Earl of Oxford's Players Vere, Edward de (1550 - 1604) Players 1
Earl of Oxford's Players Vere, Edward de (1550 - 1604) Players 1
Earl of Oxford's Players Vere, Edward de (1550 - 1604) Players 1
Earl of Oxford's Players Vere, Edward de (1550 - 1604) Players 1
Earl of Oxford's Players Vere, Edward de (1550 - 1604) Players 1
Earl of Oxford's Players Vere, Edward de (1550 - 1604) Players 1
Earl of Oxford's Players Vere, Edward de (1550 - 1604) Players 1
Earl of Oxford's Players Vere, Edward de (1550 - 1604) Players 1
Earl of Oxford's Players Vere, Edward de (1550 - 1604) Players 1
Earl of Oxford's Players Vere, Edward de (1550 - 1604) Players 1
Earl of Oxford's Players Vere, Edward de (1550 - 1604) Players 1
Earl of Oxford's Musicians Vere, Edward de (1550 - 1604) Musicians 1
Earl of Oxford's Musicians Vere, Edward de (1550 - 1604) Musicians 1
Earl of Oxford's Bearward Vere, Edward de (1550 - 1604) Performing Animals 1

Bibliographic Sources

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  • The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom. 1887–98 (8 vols); 1910–59 (13 vols). 6 vols. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1982
  • Doyle, James E. The Official Baronage of England Showing the Succession, Dignities, and Offices of Every Peer from 1066 to 1885. 3 vols. London: Longmans, 1886
  • Fairweather, F.H. 'Colne Priory, Essex, and the Burials of the Earls of Oxford.'. Archaeologia 87 (1937): 275--95.
  • Nelson, Alan H. Monstrous Adversary: The Life of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2003
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
  • Round, J. Horace. 'Notes on the Lord Great Chamberlain Case.'. The Ancestor 4 (Jan. 1903): 7--28.