Aubrey de Vere, 20th Earl of Oxford

Aubrey de Vere
20th Earl of Oxford
Spouse(s)	Anne Bayning
Father	Robert de Vere, 19th Earl of Oxford
Mother	Beatrix van Hemmend
Born	(1627-02-28)28 February 1627
Died	12 March 1703(1703-03-12) (aged 76)

Aubrey de Vere, 20th Earl of Oxford KG PC (28 February 1627 – 12 March 1703) was a Royalist during the English Civil War.

Life

He was the son of Robert de Vere, 19th Earl of Oxford and his wife Beatrix van Hemmena.

Aubrey was a Royalist during the English Civil War, and for this he was imprisoned in the Tower of London. He was richly rewarded for his loyalty by Charles II after the Restoration in 1660. He later took the side of William of Orange against James II in the Glorious Revolution.

Family

On 12 April 1647, he married Anne Bayning, a daughter of Paul Bayning, 2nd Viscount Bayning. Anne died in 1659 and Aubrey married Diana Kirke, daughter of George Kirke and granddaughter of Aurelian Townshend.^[1] They had five children:^[2]

1. Charles, who died as an infant.
2. Charlotte, died young
3. Lady Diana de Vere, who married King Charles II's illegitimate son, Charles Beauclerk, Duke of St Albans.
4. Mary, died unmarried
5. Henrietta, died unmarried

Since he had no surviving sons and as no other suitable claimant came forward, he became the last de Vere Earl of Oxford, one of the longest-lived titles in the peerage of England. The first de Vere earl had received his title from the Empress Matilda in 1141.

Notes

References

Wikisource has the text of the 1885–1900 Dictionary of National Biography's article about Vere, Aubrey de (1626-1703).

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