John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford

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John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford.

John de Vere was a Protestant and the son of John de Vere and Alice Kilrington (alias Colbroke), and descended from his Grandfather the eleventh earl, Richard de Vere (d. 1417)

The fifteenth earl of Oxford married 1.Christian Foderingey (b. c.1481, d. in or before 1498) S.P., the daughter of Sir Thomas Foderingey (c.1446-1491), Lord of South Acre and his wife Elizabeth Dorewood (c.1473-1491) the grandaughter of John Dorewood (c. 1390-1462) serjeant-at-law and Speaker of the House of Commons.

He married 2.Elizabeth Trussell (b. 1496, d. Abt. 1527), the daughter of Edward Trussell of Kibblestone, Staffordshire, issue four sons three daughters.

Knighted by Henry VIII, 1513, Esquire of the body 1509, in attendance to Henry VIII duirng meetings with François I and Charles V, 1520. life grant of the great chamberlainship, 1529, knight of the Garter 1530, signed the lords' petition against Wolsey 1529, royal councillor 1531, "Oxford bore the crown at Anne Boleyn's coronation, but later served on commissions trying her and her alleged lovers in 1536 and also the panels for the Courtenay conspiracy trials in 1538". "A Venetian report in 1531 asserted that he was ‘a man of valour and authority … and it is his custom always to cavalcade with two hundred horse’ (CSP Venice, 1527–33, 295). He died on 21 March 1540 and was buried at Castle Hedingham."

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Jonathan Hughes, ‘Vere, John de, sixteenth earl of Oxford (1516-1562)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 13 April 2005