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London, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812
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Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford and Lord Great Chamberlain of England. He was an Elizabethan courtier, playwright, poet, sportsman, patron of numerous writers. Because his father died when he was a minor, the new Earl became a royal ward. The wardship system involved his lands being used by the crown for its own profit, although ostensibly to the ward's benefit. He received legal training at Gray's Inn after having attended Queen's College, Cambridge, and was awarded Master of Arts degrees by Oxford and Cambridge universities. In 1571, at the age of 21, Lord Edward regained control of his estates and married Anne Cecil, daughter of Lord Burghley, for 40 years the Queen's Principal Secretary of State and later Lord Treasurer, in whose house he had been placed for his education during his minority. On 12 April 1571 Oxford reached the age of majority, and took his seat in the House of Lords.
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Edward, the 17th Earl of Oxford is thought to be to actual author of those great literary works normally attributed to William Shakespeare. This theory is supported by the coincidence that Oxford's poems apparently ceased just before Shakespeare's work began to appear. A further claim is that Oxford assumed a pseudonym in order to protect his family from the social stigma attached to the stage and also because extravagance had brought him into disrepute at court.
De Vere, English lyric poet and patron of an acting company, Oxford's Men, was born at Castle Hedingham in Essex. He became a royal ward when his father died in 1652. He received legal training at Gray's Inn after having attended Queen's College, Cambridge, and was awarded Master of Arts degrees by Oxford and Cambridge universities. In 1571, Lord Edward regained control of his estates and married Anne Cecil, daughter of Lord Burghley. The marriage was an unhappy one and couple had three surviving daughters who would all marry into the nobility; Elizabeth, Bridget, and Susan.
In his early years he was a favorite of the court, until he denounced a group of Catholic friends to the Queen and was thus retained under house arrest for a short time and also imprisoned in the Tower of London.
In 1581 he fathered an illegitimate daughter, Anne Vavasour. The birth of Anne led to a long running feud with Sir Thomas Knyvett, the uncle of Anne.
De Vere is listed as first among the poets of the Elizabethan period, as well as an active dramatist. Sadly none of his masques and plays survive. He was briefly given military commands in 1585 in Holland and in 1588 during the Armada. In 1586, to rescue him from penury, the Queen granted the Earl an annual pension of £1,000.
In the early 1590s, he married his second wife, Elizabeth Trentham, one of the Queen's maids of honor. Their only child, Henry, heir to the earldom, was born in 1592.
De Vere died probably from plague, at King's Place in Hackney, Stratford. He left no will and is presumed buried in St Augustine's church in the same parish. Arthur Golding wrote twenty years after De Vere's death that the 17th Earl "died at his house at Hackney in the month of June 1604 and lies buried at Westminster [Abbey]."
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35858905/edward-de_vere
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