Pedigree of the de Vere family, Earls of Oxford

Principally drawn from The Complete Peerage by GE Cokayne

Beatrice de Gand = Aubrey de Vere
b.c. 1040, d. 1112

Alice de Clare = Aubrey de Vere Geoffrey Roger Robert William Alice

b. 1092 d. 1163 b.c. 1062, d. 15 May 1141 m. Richard de
Canville
m3
Lucia de Essex = Aubrey de Vere Geoffrey Robert William Alice Rohese Juliana
b. 1151 Ist Earl of Oxford d. 1170 Bishop of Hereford, b. 1124 d. 1185 b. 1109 d. 1166 b. 1116 d. 1199
b. 1110 d. 26 Dec 1194 Gilbert 1186 m. Geoffrey de m2. Hugh Bigod
d. 24 Dec 1198 Felicia Mandeville 1st Earl of Norfolk
Acceded 1142
1st Earl of Essex & Suffolk
m1 Beatrice of Bourbourg
m2 Euferne de Cantelo

m1
Alice Bigod = Aubrey de Vere Isabel de Bolobec = Robert de Vere Ralph Henry Alice
2nd Earl of Oxford 3rd Earl of Oxford d. by 1214 d before 1222
b. 1163, d. 1214 b after 1164, d. 25 Oct 1221
Acceded 1194 Acceded 1214
M2 Isabel de Bolobec

Hawise Quincy = Hugh de Vere Eleanor

4th Earl of Oxford
b. 1210, buried 23 Dec 1263
Acceded 1221

Alice Saunford = Robert de Vere Aubrey Richard Margaret Maud Isabel Laura
b. 1231 5th Earl of Oxford b. 1222
b. 1240, buried 7 Sept 1296 d. 1299
Acceded 1263 Castle Hedingham
The church at Castle Hedingham the de Vere family seat

Jane Foliot = Sir Alphonso de Vere Margaret = Robert de Vere Hugh Joan Philip Hawise
d. 20 Dec 1328 Mortimer 6th Earl of Oxford b. 1258 d. 1319 d. 1293
Gilbert Anne
b. 24 Aug 1257
Laura John b. 1264 Abbess of Barking
d. 17 April 1331
Maud de Badlesmere = John de Vere d.1289 d. 1303
b. 1309 d. 7 March 1336 7th Earl of Oxford Acceded 1296
b. 12 March 1311
d. 23 Jan 1360 at the Siege of Rheims Thomas de Vere
Acceded 1331 b. 1282 d. 12 May 1329

Sir John de Vere Margaret
b. Dec 1335 m1. Henry de Beaumont
d. 23 June 1350 s. of John de Beaumont &
Eleanor Plantaganet
m2 Nicholas de Lovain
m3. Sir John Devereux
issue: Sir William Devereux
King’s Place, Hackney - the marital home of
Edward de Vere and Elizabeth Trentham
Maud de Ufford = Thomas de Vere Robert Alice Fitzwalter = Aubrey de Vere
8th Earl of Oxford Maud 10th Earl of Oxford
b. 1336, d. Sept 1371 b. 1339, d. 23 April 1400
Acceded 1360 Elizabeth Acceded 1392
m2
Robert de Vere Alice Sargeaux = Richard de Vere John Alice
9th Earl of Oxford Daughter of 11th Earl of Oxford
1st Marquis of Dublin Sir Richard Sargeaux b c1386, d 15 Feb 1416/7
b. 16 Jan 1362, d. 1392 of Cornwall Knight of the Garter
Acceded 1371 Held a command at Agincourt under
Knight of the Garter King Henry V
Favourite of King Richard II m1 Alice Holland, d. of John Holland, 1st
Duke of Exeter, and Elizabeth Plantagenet
The banqueting hall at
m1 Phillipa de Courcy Castle Hedingham
m2 Agnes Lancecrone
Elizabeth = John de Vere Sir Robert de Vere = Jeane Courtenay
daughter of 12th Earl of Oxford daughter of
Sir John Howard b 23 April 1408 d 26 Feb 1462 Sir Hugh Courtenay
Acceded 1417
beheaded at the Tower of London

Margaret = Sir George de Vere John de Vere Sir Richard de Vere Aubrey de Vere Alice Kilrington = John de Vere Jane
daughter of d 1503 13th Earl of Oxford b 1448 d. 20 Feb 1462 daughter of b. 1440
Sir William Stafford Lord Great Chamberlain beheaded at the Walter Kilrington John de Vere
of Bishop’s Frome Knight of the Garter Tower of London 15th Earl of Oxford m. Sir William Norreys
b. 8 Sept 1442
m.2
d 10 March 1513
Elizabeth Trussel = John de Vere
Ursula de Vere John de Vere of Campes Acceded 1462 daughter of Sir Edward 15th Earl of Oxford
b. 1488 14th Earl of Oxford m1 Margaret, daughter Trussel of Kibblestone Lord Great Chamberlain
m1. George Windsor b 14 Aug 1499, d. 1526 of Richard Neville, Knight of the Garter
son of Sir Andrew Windsor Acceded 1513 Earl of Shrewsbury d. 1539, Acceded 1371
1st Baron Windsor of m. Anne daughter of Thomas m2 Elizabeth Scrope
Stanwell. Howard 2nd Duke of Norfolk m1. (c1493) Christian
dau of Thomas Foderingey
m2 Sir Edward Knightley

m.1 m.2
m1. Margaret Spring = Aubrey de Vere Geoffrey de Vere Frances de Vere Robert de Vere Dorothy Nevill = John de Vere = Margery Golding
m2. Bridget Gibbon m. Elizabeth Hardekyn m. Henry Howard m1. Barbara Barners daughter of Ralph Nevill, 16th Earl of Oxford d 02.12.1568
Earl of Surrey m2. Joan Hubberd 4th Earl of Westmorland Lord Great Chamberlain daughter of John Golding of
Married 3 July 1536 of England Halstead / Belchamp St. Paul
Elizabeth
Hugh de Vere John Anne Bridget Jane m. Thomas Darcy b. circa 1516, d. 3 Aug 1562 Sister of Arthur Golding
m. John Stubbs m. Henry Hunt 1st Baron Darcy of Chiche translator of Ovid
Edward de Vere
Anne 17th Earl of Oxford m2. 1 Aug 1548
m. Edmund Sheffield Katherine de Vere
of Butterwick b. 1539 d 17 Jan 1599
Robert de Vere = Beatrice von
19th Earl of Oxford Hemmema m. Sir Edward Windsor Mary de Vere
b 1575 Frances de Vere 3rb Baron Windsor of m1 - Peregrine Bertie,
by Holbein Bradenham, nephew of 11th Lord Willoughby
Acceded 1625
Issue: George Windsor and his who served for a time as
Died: 7 Aug 1632 Thomas Howard wife Ursula née Vere ambassador to the
at the siege of 4th Duke of Norfolk Danish court at Elsinor
Maestricht Aubrey de Vere
20th Earl of Oxford Henry Howard m2 - Sir Eustace Harte
Susan b. 28 Feb 1626 1st Earl of Northampton
m.2 m.1
Katherine - married
Margery Elizabeth de Vere Aubrey de Vere Henry, Lord Berkely Elizabeth Trentham = Edward de Vere = Anne Cecil
20th Earl of Oxford Maid of Honour to 17th Earl of Oxford daughter of
Horatio de Vere Queen Elizabeth Lorde Greate Chamberleyne Sir William Cecil,
1st Baron Vere of Tilbury of Englande, Viscount Lord Burghley
Possibly a god-daughter
Sir Francis de Vere John Mary Tracy = Horatio de Vere of the Queen Bulbecke, and Lorde of Secretary of State,
Governor of Brill 1st Baron Badlesmere and Scales. Lord Treasurer
Frances Daughter of Thomas
b. 1560, d. 28 Aug 1609 b. 1576 Vere of Tilbury Trentham of Rocester Abbey b. April 12 1550 Maid of Honour
m. Robert d 24 June 1604 to Queen Elizabeth
Buried at Westminster Abbey b. 1565, d. 2 May 1635 b. c. 1562/3 at Rocester
Harcourt Also had illegitimate son, b. 5 Dec 1556
Buried at buried 3 Jan 1613 at Hackney Sir Edward Vere d. 5 June 1588 at the
Westminster Abbey
Will dated 25 Nov 1612 b. 23 March 1581, d 1629 palace at Greenwich
with Anne Vavasour, lady buried at Westminster
of bedchamber to Queen Abbey
Elizabeth Mary Catherine Anne Dorothy Elizabeth Sir William Cecil
m. John Holles m. Roger m2. John Poulett m. Thomas Fairfax m. 19 Dec 1571 Lord Burghley
Sir Francis de Vere Townshend
Governor of Brill Henry de Vere
18th Earl of Oxford
Henry de Vere, 18th Earl of Oxford Elizabeth de Vere Bridget de Vere Susan de Vere son
Lord Great Chamberlain b. 2 July 1575, d. 10 March 1627 b. 6 April 1584 b. 26 May 1587, b+d May 1583
b. 24 Feb 1593, June 1625 died without issue Date of birth is according to married, May/June 1599, bur 1 Feb 1628-9
Burghley. Edward de Vere Francis Norris, 2nd Lord of married, 27 Dec 1604,
1 Jan 1624: married Diana Cecil initially considers the child Frances de Vere
daughter of William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Exeter Rycote, Earl of Berkshire. Philip Herbert, 1st Earl of buried infant
illegitimate thus beginning a Montgomery, 4th Earl of
On Henry’s death, the manorship and castle of five estrangement with Anne Prior to marriage was affianced 12 Sept 1587
to William Herbert, 3rd Earl Pembroke, Knight of the Garter
Hedingham, having been purchased by married, 26 Jan 1594, 1608, brother of William
Elizabeth Trentham, Countess of Oxford, of Pembroke Lord
William Stanley, Chamberlain, Knight of the Herbert (See Bridget) who were
pass by entail, to her brother ffrancis Trentham 6th Earl of Derby the ‘incomparable brethren’
Garter brother of Philip
(d. 29 Sept 1642) Herbert see Susan de Vere who financed the First Folio
Knight of the Garter 1601 of Shakespeare Philip Herbert
Earl of Montgomery

Copyright 2007 Jeremy Crick. I gratefully acknowledge Nina Green’s help in supplying additional information. Published on behalf of the De Vere Society, www.deveresociety.co.uk