John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford

John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, Chamberlain and Constable of England, Admiral of England, Ireland and Aquitaine, KG, KB (14th GGF)

1442–1513

BIRTH 8 SEPTEMBER 1442

DEATH 10 MARCH 1513 • Castle Hedingham, Essex, England

14th great-grandfather

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John de Vere
13th Earl of Oxford
Tenure	26 February 1462 – 1475 1485 – 10 March 1513
Predecessor	John de Vere, 12th Earl
Successor	John de Vere, 14th Earl
Born	8 September 1442
Died	10 March 1513 (aged 70) Castle Hedingham, Essex
Spouse(s)	Margaret Neville Elizabeth Scrope

Issue	Katherine de Vere (illegitimate)
House	De Vere
Father	John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford
Mother	Elizabeth Howard

John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford KG KB (8 September 1442 – 10 March 1513), the second son of John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford, and Elizabeth Howard, a first cousin of John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk (2nd creation), was one of the principal Lancastrian commanders during the English Wars of the Roses.

He was the principal commander of King Henry VII‘s army at the Battle of Bosworth Field, and again led Henry’s troops to victory at the Battle of Stoke Field two years later. He became one of the great men of the King’s regime.

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Early life

John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, was born on 8 September 1442, the second son of John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford (23 April 1408 – 26 February 1462), and his wife Elizabeth Howard (c. 1410–1474), the daughter of Sir John Howard and Joan Walton. ^[1]^[2]

In February 1462 the 12th Earl, his eldest son, Aubrey de Vere, and Sir Thomas Tuddenham, the 12th Earl’s former political opponent in Norfolk and now a fellow Lancastrian loyalist, were convicted of high treason before John Tiptoft, 1st Earl of Worcester, Constable of England, for plotting against King Edward IV. The 12th Earl was beheaded on Tower Hill on 26 February 1462, and buried in the church of Austin Friars in London. His son Aubrey had been beheaded on the same scaffold six days earlier. ^[3]^[4]^[5]

Pursuing a conciliatory policy with Lancastrian families, King Edward allowed John de Vere to succeed his father, and on 18 January 1464 granted him license to enter on his father’s lands. On 26 May 1465 he was created a Knight of the Bath at the coronation of Edward IV’s wife, Elizabeth Woodville, and officiated at the ceremony as both Lord Great Chamberlain, in the absence of the then office-holder, the Earl of Warwick, and as Chamberlain to the queen. In November 1468, however, he was committed to the Tower and confessed to plotting with the Lancastrians against the King. He was likely released before 7 January 1469 and received a general pardon on 5 April of that year. However, by early July 1469 Oxford had joined the discontented Yorkists led by his brother-in-law, the Earl of Warwick, and King Edward’s brother, the Duke of Clarence, for the Edgcote campaign. Following the loss at Losecoat Field on 12 March 1470, he fled overseas to the court of King Henry VI’s wife, Margaret of Anjou. In September 1470 he joined Warwick and Clarence in the invasion of England which restored Henry VI to the throne, and on 13 October bore the Sword of State before Henry in a procession to St Paul’s. He was appointed Lord High Constable of England, and as such on 15 October tried and condemned for high treason the same Earl of Worcester who had in 1462 condemned Oxford’s own father and brother. ^[6][4][2]

In March 1471, he prevented Edward IV’s army from landing in Norfolk, and was in command of the right-wing at the Battle of Barnet on 14 April of that year, defeating the forces of Lord Hastings. However, this early success in the battle turned to disaster when Oxford’s forces began pillaging. Oxford led his men back to the fight, but:

they lost their way in the fog and suddenly emerged on their own army, who mistook the Vere star for Edward’s sun in splendour, and met them with a flight of arrows. Whereupon Oxford and his men cried “Treasoune! treasoune” and fled.^[7]

After this defeat Oxford escaped to Scotland with 40 men, accompanied by his two brothers, George and Thomas Vere, and Viscount Beaumont. From there he went to France, where he collected ships and engaged in privateering. ^[8][2] Although he was not attainted after leaving England in 1471, his lands were confiscated, and his wife, Margaret, is said to have been subjected to great financial hardship. ^[9][2] On 28 May 1473, Oxford attempted an unsuccessful landing at St Osyth in Essex. On 30 September 1473, he seized St Michael’s Mount in Cornwall, where he was besieged for some months by John Fortescue. After most of his men had deserted and he had been wounded in the face with an arrow, Oxford was eventually compelled to surrender on 15 February 1474, along with his two brothers and Beaumont. ^[9][2]Church of St Peter and Paul, Lavenham, Suffolk

Oxford was imprisoned at Hammes Castle near Calais and was attainted early in 1475. ^[8][4] At this time his mother, the 12th Earl’s widow, was forced to surrender her property to the Duke of Gloucester. ^[10] In 1478 Oxford scaled the walls of Hammes and leapt into the moat, though whether this was an attempt at escape or suicide is unclear. The new king, Richard III, ordered his transfer to England on 28 October 1484, but before the transfer could be effected Oxford had escaped, having persuaded the captain of Hammes, Sir James Blount, to go with him to join the Earl of Richmond. ^[8][2] It is said that Richmond was “ravished with joy incredible” at this event. Oxford immediately returned to Hammes to bring the garrison there to join Richmond. ^[2]

Oxford commanded the archers and Henry’s vanguard using the formation called the Oxford Wedge, which penetrated Richard’s army in the shape of an arrow at the Battle of Bosworth,^[8] and held Richmond’s vanguard in fierce fighting in which John Howard, the Duke of Norfolk and the first cousin of Oxford’s mother, who was leading the vanguard of Richard III, was killed. ^[8][2] To celebrate the Tudor victory at Bosworth, Oxford commissioned the building of the church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Lavenham. ^{[citation needed]}

Service under Henry VII

Oxford’s coat of arms

According to Gunn, Oxford was ‘immediately recognized as one of the great men of Henry VII’s regime’. His attainder was repealed, he was restored to his estates and titles, and received many appointments and grants, including appointment as Lord Admiral on 21 September, and chief steward of the Duchy of Lancaster south of Trent and Constable of the Tower of London on 22 September 1485. He was also appointed the first Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard. He was sworn of the Privy Council and recognized as Hereditary Lord Great Chamberlain of England. As Lord Great Chamberlain he officiated at the coronations of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, bearing the king’s train at the coronation and setting the crown upon the king’s head at the coronation banquet. ^[8][2] By 1486 he had been invested with the Order of the Garter. He was present at most great court occasions, and stood godfather to the king’s eldest son, Arthur, Prince of Wales, in 1486, bestowing on his godson a gift of a pair of basins with a cup of assay, all gilt. ^[11][2]

Nor were Oxford’s fighting days over. In 1487, he commanded the vanguard at Stoke, the last battle of the Wars of the Roses; was in Picardy in 1492, and in 1497 was one of the commanders against the Cornish rebels at Blackheath. He presided as Lord High Steward at the trial of the Earl of Warwick on 21 November 1499. [11] By 1499, Oxford’s yearly landed income had risen to £1600. He entertained the king regularly on his progress. However, Sir Francis Bacon’s story that Henry VII imposed an enormous fine on the Earl for illegally bringing together more than the allowed number of retainers to welcome the king is likely apocryphal. ^[2][12]

Last years

On the accession of King Henry VIII Oxford continued in high favor and officiated as Lord Great Chamberlain at the coronation. He resided at Wivenhoe and Castle Hedingham in Essex, and added to the 12th-century keep of the latter and constructed a new great hall and several towers. His jousting helm is in the Bargello in Florence. According to Gunn, he ‘kept an outstanding chapel choir’, and commissioned Caxton’s edition of The Four Sons of Aymon in 1489. ^[2] Oxford also kept a playing company whose recorded performances span the years 1492–1499. ^[13]

Oxford died on 10 March 1513 at Castle Hedingham and was buried 24 April at Colne Priory. He had no issue by either of his two marriages and was succeeded as Earl by his nephew, John de Vere, 14th Earl of Oxford, the second but only surviving son of Sir George Vere, third son of the 12th Earl, and his wife, Margaret Stafford, the daughter and heir of Sir William Stafford of Bishops Frome, Hereford. ^[14]

Marriages and family

Oxford married firstly, Margaret Neville, the daughter of Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, by Alice, the daughter of Thomas Montagu, 4th Earl of Salisbury. Oxford’s first wife was the sister of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, the Kingmaker,^[14]^[15] making Oxford the uncle of Isabel Neville, Duchess of Clarence as the wife of George Plantagenet, and Anne Neville, the Duchess of Gloucester and later Queen of England after her husband, Richard, was crowned Richard III. Margaret Neville died between 20 November 1506 and 14 January 1507. ^[16]

Oxford married secondly Elizabeth Scrope, the widow of his colleague William, 2nd Viscount Beaumont, and daughter and coheir of Sir Richard Scrope of Bentley, the second son of Henry Scrope, 4th Baron Scrope of Bolton, by Eleanor, the daughter of Norman Washbourne of Wichenford. ^[14]

They had no children. Elizabeth, Countess of Oxford, died in 1537. She mainly lived at Wivenhoe in Essex when she was not at court and was buried there. She and her sister Mary, Lady Kingston, were members of the household of Catherine of Aragon and went to the Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520. They were mourners at the funeral of Jane Seymour. The Countess bequeathed a gold cross containing a relic of the true Cross to John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford. ^[17]

The Earl of Oxford is said to have had an illegitimate daughter, Katherine de Vere (d. after 20 June 1504), who married Sir Robert Broughton, ‘one of the richest non-baronial landowners in England’. ^[18] Broughton appointed the 13th Earl as supervisor of his will. ^[18]

Sir Robert Broughton and Katherine de Vere had two sons and a daughter:

John Broughton (d. 24 January 1518)^[19]^[20]^[21] of Toddington, Bedfordshire, who married Anne Sapcote (d. 14 March 1559),^[22] the daughter and heir of Sir Guy Sapcote by Margaret Wolston, daughter and heir of Sir Guy Wolston,^[23] and by her had a son, John Broughton (d.1528), and two daughters, Katherine Broughton (d. 23 April 1535), who was the first wife of William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham,^[24]^[25] and Anne Broughton, who married, as his second wife, by dispensation dated 24 May 1539, Sir Thomas Cheyney. ^[26]^[27]^[28]
Robert Broughton. ^[29]
Margaret Broughton, who married Henry Everard, by whom she had several children, including Elizabeth Everard, who married Sir William Clopton (d. 6 October 1568) of Liston Hall, Essex. ^[29]^[30]^[31]^[32]

Notes

^ Cokayne 1945, p. 238.
^ Jump up to:^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l Gunn 2004.
^ Cokayne 1945, pp. 237–238.
^ Jump up to:^a ^b ^c Kohl 2004.
^ Castor 2004.
^ Cokayne 1945, pp. 239–240.
^ Cokayne 1945, pp. 240–241.
^ Jump up to:^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Cokayne 1945, p. 241.
^ Jump up to:^a ^b Cokayne 1945, p. 240.
^ Cokayne 1945, pp. 238, 241.
^ Jump up to:^a ^b Cokayne 1945, p. 242.
^ Ross 2011, pp. 141–2.
^ Lancashire 1984, p. 407.
^ Jump up to:^a ^b ^c Cokayne 1945, p. 243.
^ Ross 2011, p. 50.
^ Ross 2011, p. 204.
^ Barbara Harris, ‘The hidden role of sisters and sisters-in-law’, James Daybell & Svante Norrhem, Gender and Political Culture in Early Modern Europe (Routledge, 2017), pp. 110, 112-4.
^ Jump up to:^a ^b Ross 2011, p. 187.
^ Copinger 1910, pp. 156, 319.
^ Anne Sapcote (d. March 1558/9), A Who’s Who of Tudor Women: Sa-Sn compiled by Kathy Lynn Emerson to update and correct Wives and Daughters: The Women of Sixteenth-Century England (1984) Archived 21 September 2013 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 2 June 2013.
^ Katherine Broughton (c.1514-April 23, 1535), A Who’s Who of Tudor Women: Brooke-Bu, compiled by Kathy Lynn Emerson to update and correct Wives and Daughters: The Women of Sixteenth-Century England (1984) Archived 20 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 1 June 2013.
^ After the death of John Broughton, Anne (née Sapcote) married secondly Sir Richard Jerningham (d.1525), and thirdly John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford.
^ Howard & Armytage 1869, p. 84.
^ Richardson II 2011, p. 417.
^ Lysons 1792, pp. 278-9.
^ Blaydes 1884, p. 14.
^ Cheyne, Sir Thomas (1482/87-1558), of the Blackfriars, London and Shurland, Isle of Sheppey, Kent, History of ParliamentRetrieved 1 June 2013.
^ Katherine de Vere
^ Jump up to:^a ^b Nicolas 1826, p. 557.
^ Cotman 1839, p. 16.
^ Metcalfe 1878, p. 179.
^ Wright 1836, p. 561.

References

Blaydes, Frederic Augustus (1884). The Visitations of Bedfordshire. XIX. London: Harleian Society. p. 14. Retrieved 1 June 2013.
Castor, Helen (2004). “Vere, John de, twelfth earl of Oxford,(1408-1462), magnate”. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/28213. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
Cokayne, George Edward (1945). The Complete Peerage, edited by H.A. Doubleday. X. London: St. Catherine Press. pp. 239–244.
Copinger, W.A. (1910). The Manors of Suffolk. 6. Manchester: Taylor, Garnett, Evans and Co. Ltd. pp. 156, 319. Retrieved 4 June 2013.
Cotman, John Sell (1839). Engravings of Sepulchral Brasses in Norfolk and Suffolk. II (2nd ed.). London: Henry G. Bohn. p. 16. Retrieved 4 June 2013.
Gunn, S.J. (2004). “Vere, John de, thirteenth earl of Oxford, 1442-1513, magnate”. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/28214. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
Howard, Joseph Jackson; Armytage, George John, eds. (1869). The Visitation of London Taken in the Year 1568. I. London: Harleian Society. p. 84. Retrieved 1 June 2013.
Kohl, Benjamin G. (2004). “Tiptoft (Tibetot), John, first earl of Worcester (1427–1470), administrator and humanist”. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/27471. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
Lancashire, Ian (2006). Dramatic Texts and Records of Britain: A Chronological Topography to 1558. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 9780802055927.
Lysons, Daniel (1792). The Environs of London. I. London: A. Strahan. pp. 278–9. Retrieved 1 June 2013.
Metcalfe, Walter C., ed. (1878). The Visitations of Essex. XIII. London: Harleian Society. p. 179. Retrieved 4 June 2013.
Nicolas, Nicholas Harris (1826). Testamenta Vetusta. II. London: Nichols and Son. p. 557. Retrieved 4 June 2013.
Richardson, Douglas (2011). Everingham, Kimball G. (ed.). Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. II (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City. p. 417. ISBN 978-1449966386.
Ross, James (2011). John de Vere, Thirteenth Earl of Oxford (1442-1513); ‘The Foremost Man of the Kingdom’. Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press. ISBN 978-1-84383-614-8. Retrieved 22 July 2013.
Wright, Thomas (1836). The History and Topography of the County of Essex. I. London: George Virtue. p. 561. Retrieved 4 June 2013.

Attribution

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: James, Tait (1899). “Vere, John de (1443-1513)“. In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. 58. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 240–242.

External links

Will of John de Vere, Earl of Oxford, proved 10 May 1513, PROB 11/17/379, National Archives Retrieved 1 June 2013
Will of Sir Robert Broughton, proved 10 July 1507, PROB 11/15/535, National Archives Retrieved 1 June 2013
Will of John Broughton, proved 4 June 1519, PROB 11/19/251, National Archives Retrieved 1 June 2013

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Preceded by The Duke of Norfolk	Lord High Admiral of England 1485–1513	Succeeded by Sir Edward Howard
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House of de Vere

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de Vere family coat of arms with a mullet in the first quarter of the shield the family’s coat of arms on a sign in the village of Earls Colne, Essex

The House of de Vere were an English aristocratic family who derived their surname from Ver (department Manche, canton Gavray), in Lower Normandy, France. ^[1] The family’s Norman founder in England, Aubrey (Albericus) de Vere, appears in Domesday Book (1086) as the holder of a large fief in Essex, Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, and Suffolk. His son and heir Aubrey II became Lord Great Chamberlain of England, an hereditary office, in 1133. His grandson Aubrey III became Earl of Oxford in the reign of King Stephen, but while his earldom had been granted by the Empress Matilda and eventually recognised by Stephen, it was not until January 1156 that it was formally recognised by Henry II and he began to receive the third penny of justice (one-third of the revenue of the shire court)^{[clarification needed]} from Oxfordshire. ^[2]

For many centuries the family was headed by the Earl of Oxford until the death of the 20th Earl in 1703.

Among the offices the family held besides that of Lord Great Chamberlain was the forestership of Essex, and they founded the Essex religious houses of Colne Priory, Hatfield Broad Oak Priory, and Castle Hedingham Priory. ^[3] Macaulay described the family as “the longest and most illustrious line of nobles that England has seen,”^[4] and Tennyson‘s poem Lady Clara Vere de Vere made the name synonymous with ancient blood. ^[5]

Notable family members[edit]

Aubrey de Vere I (died c. 1112), a tenant-in-chief in England of William the Conqueror
Aubrey de Vere II (c. 1080–1141), Lord Great Chamberlain of England
Aubrey de Vere III (c. 1115-1194), first Earl of Oxford
Rohese de Vere, Countess of Essex (c. 1110–1169 or after), founder of Chicksands Priory, Bedfordshire
William de Vere (1120–1198), Bishop of Hereford and author of a saint’s life
Guy of Valence (fl. 1230s), supposed by Robert Steele, probably mistakenly, to have been a de Vere
Robert de Vere, Duke of Ireland (1362-1392), ninth Earl of Oxford and a favourite of King Richard II
Bridget de Vere (1584–1630/31), Countess of Berkshire
Diana Beauclerk, Duchess of St Albans (née Lady Diana de Vere, c. 1679–1742), courtier and Mistress of the Robes to Caroline, Princess of Wales
Frances Howard, Countess of Surrey (née de Vere, c. 1517–1577)
Susan de Vere, Countess of Montgomery (1587–1628/29)
Francis Vere (1560–1609), an English soldier, famed for his military career in the Low Countries
Horace Vere, 1st Baron Vere of Tilbury (1565–1635), a military leader during the Eighty Years’ War and the Thirty Years’ War
Mary de Vere (died c. 1624), a noblewoman

Twenty males headed the family as Earl of Oxford from 1141 to 1703:

Aubrey de Vere, 1st Earl of Oxford (c. 1115–1194)
Aubrey de Vere, 2nd Earl of Oxford (c. 1164–1214)
Robert de Vere, 3rd Earl of Oxford (c. 1173–1221), one of the 25 barons of the Magna Carta
Hugh de Vere, 4th Earl of Oxford (c. 1208–1263)
Robert de Vere, 5th Earl of Oxford (1240–1296) (forfeit 1265, restored soon afterwards)
Robert de Vere, 6th Earl of Oxford (1257–1331)
John de Vere, 7th Earl of Oxford (1312–1360)
Thomas de Vere, 8th Earl of Oxford (1337–1371)
Robert de Vere, 9th Earl of Oxford (1362–1392) (forfeit 1388)
Aubrey de Vere, 10th Earl of Oxford (1340–1400) (restored 1393)
Richard de Vere, 11th Earl of Oxford (1385–1417)
John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford (1408–1462)
John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford (1442–1513) (forfeit 1475, restored 1485) commander of the army of Henry Tudor at the Battle of Bosworth Field
John de Vere, 14th Earl of Oxford (1499–1526)
John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford (1482–1540)
John de Vere, 16th Earl of Oxford (1516–1562)
Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550–1604), patron of the arts, a poet and playwright
Henry de Vere, 18th Earl of Oxford (1593–1625)
Robert de Vere, 19th Earl of Oxford (1575–1632)
Aubrey de Vere, 20th Earl of Oxford (1627–1703) (dormant 1703)

Genealogy[edit]

Part of this section is transcluded from Earl of Oxford. (edit | history)

This summary genealogical tree shows how the house of de Vere is related:showFamily tree

Coats of Arms[edit]

Arms of notable members of the de Vere family:

Arms of de Vere, Earls of Oxford
Arms de Vere, Earls of Oxford
Arms of Hugh de Vere (“Huë de Ver”)
Coat of Arms of Sir Robert de Vere, 9th Earl of Oxford, 1st Duke of Ireland, KG
Coat of arms of Sir Richard de Vere, 11th Earl of Oxford, KG
Coat of arms of Sir John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford
Arms of Sir John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford, KG
Arms of Beauclerk (Stuart), dukes of Saint-Albans, heirs to the de Vere lands

References[edit]

^ L. C. Loyd, The Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Families (Leeds: 1951), 110.
^ R. W. Eyton, Court, Household, and Itinerary of King Henry II (London: 1878), 16.
^ G. E. C. Cokayne, The Complete Peerage v. X
^ Macaulay, Baron Thomas Babbington (1857). Histories of England. 2. p. 126.
^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Round, John Horace (1911). “Vere“. In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. 27 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 1019.