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Diana Kirke de Vere, 20th Countess of Oxford, painted by Peter Lely. The House of de Vere was an old and powerful English aristocratic family who derived their name from Ver (department Manche, canton Gavray), in Lower Normandy, France.
- Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford - Wikipedia
Family and childhood. The surviving keep of Hedingham...
- Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford - Wikipedia
Vere Family, noted English family that held the hereditary office of lord great chamberlain from 1133 to 1779 and the earldom of Oxford from 1142 to 1703. The family derived its name from the village of Ver, near Bayeux, in France. Its founder, Aubrey de Vere (c. 1040–1112), was a Norman who came.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Earl of Oxford is a dormant title in the Peerage of England, first created for Aubrey de Vere by the Empress Matilda in 1141. His family was to hold the title for more than five and a half centuries, until the death of the 20th Earl in 1703.
The castle was long held by the de Vere family except for a hiatus during the Wars of the Roses. The castle was taken from the de Veres upon the execution of John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford, for treason against Edward IV in 1462.
The de Vere Family When Elizabeth Tudor became Queen of England in 1558, the Earldom of Oxford was one of the oldest lines of nobles in the country, Aubrey de Vere having held land under Edward the Confessor and later marrying into the family of William the Conqueror.
Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia. Earl of Oxford was one of the oldest titles if not the oldest bloodlines ancient in the English peerage system. Te earldom was held for some 600 years several centuries by the Vere family.
