Elizabeth de Vere, Countess of Oxford

Elizabeth de Vere (née Trussell), Countess of Oxford (1496 – before July 1527) was an English noblewoman. [1][2] Through her mother's family, she was the 5 x great granddaughter of King Edward III.[1]

Family and Children

Elizabeth was born in Prickston, Staffordshire, England in 1496 to Sir Edward Trussel of Kibbleston, Staffordshire and Margaret Dunn. On 10 April 1509 at the age of about thirteen, she became the second wife of John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford. His first wife, Christian Foderingey had died about ten years earlier without issue. Together John and Elizabeth had seven children.

  1. Elizabeth de Vere (born about 1512) married Thomas Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy of Chiche and had issue.
  2. John de Vere, 16th Earl of Oxford (1516 – 3 August 1562 married (1) Dorothy Neville, daughter of Ralph Neville, 4th Earl of Westmorland (2) Margery Golding
  3. Lady Frances de Vere (c. 1517 – 30 June 1577 married Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey and had issue.
  4. Aubrey de Vere (born about 1519) married (1) Margaret Spring (2) Bridget Gibbon
  5. Robert de Vere (born about 1520)
  6. Anne de Vere (c. 1522 – February, 1571/72) married Edmund Sheffield, 1st Baron Sheffield of Butterwick
  7. Jeffrey de Vere (born about 1526) married Elizabeth Hardkyn daughter of Sir John Hardkyn of Colchester

References

  1. ^ a b Record for Elizabeth Trussell on www.thepeerage.com
  2. ^ G. E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume XI, page 662.