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7 unusual facts about Earl of Oxford


Aubrey de Vere II

The building of a stone keep at Hedingham, Essex, was most likely begun by Aubrey II and completed by his son and heir, Aubrey III.

Dovercourt

The Saxon lord Wulwin/Ulwin was lord in 1066; by 1086 the estate was in possession of Aubrey de Vere I and remained part of the barony of his descendants the Earls of Oxford until the 16th century.

Earl of Oxford

Their primary seat was Castle Hedingham in Essex, but they held lands across England, particularly in eastern England.

John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford

Through their second son, Sir Robert Vere, the 11th Earl and his wife, Philippe, were the great-grandparents of John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford.

His eldest son, Aubrey, had been executed six days earlier, and Oxford was therefore succeeded by his second son, John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford.

John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford (23 April 1408 – 26 February 1462), was the son of Richard de Vere, 11th Earl of Oxford (1385?–15 February 1417), and his second wife, Alice Sergeaux (1386–1452).

Langham letter

Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, has also been put forth as the author as one of the arguments for his authorship of the works of William Shakespeare, although he was on the European continent from January or February 1575 to April 1576 and was not present at the festival.


Great Canfield Castle

In the 1130s-1140s Aubrey de Vere II or his son Aubrey III the first Earl of Oxford may have diverted a tributary of the river to flood the ditch around the motte; the water was managed by a dam system.

Harley Street

At the death of Henrietta's husband, Edward Harley, in 1741, this new Harley Estate passed to his only daughter, Margaret Cavendish Harley, who in 1734 had married William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland.

Henry Bickersteth, 1st Baron Langdale

He married Lady Jane Elizabeth Harley, daughter of his patron the Earl of Oxford by licence on 17 August 1835, in St. James, Paddington, London.

Sam Chifney, Jr.

Smallman trained in Hertfordshire for the Earl of Oxford and once it became clear how successful the Smallman-Chifney pairing was, the Prince of Wales took on Smallman as his trainer.


see also

Battle of Stoke Field

Around nine in the morning of 16 June, King Henry's forward troops, commanded by the Earl of Oxford, encountered the Yorkist army assembled in a single block, on a brow of Rampire Hill surrounded on three sides by the River Trent at the village of East Stoke.

Earl of Oxford and Asquith

Earl of Oxford and Asquith is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

Edward Harley

Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer (1689–1741), son of Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer

Isabella de Coucy

She married Robert de Vere, the Earl of Oxford, in 1371, and lived thereafter in England.

Oxford's Men

The Earl of Oxford’s Men, alternatively Oxford’s Players, were acting companies in late Medieval and Renaissance England patronised by the Earls of Oxford.

William Barksted

It was possibly as actor that he became acquainted with Henry, earl of Oxford, and Elizabeth, countess of Derby.