Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford
English peer and courtier of the Elizabethan era (1550-1604) · Writers · Died at 54
Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, was an English peer and courtier of the Elizabethan era.
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The surviving keep of Hedingham Castle, the de Vere family seat since the Norman Conquest
William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, the Queen's Secretary of State and de Vere's father-in-law, c. 1571.
The Royal Palace of Whitehall where the Earl of Oxford married Anne Cecil, as it appeared about 100 years later
Queen Elizabeth I. The so-called Phoenix Portrait, c. 1575
Anne Vavasour, maid of honour to Elizabeth I, mother of de Vere's illegitimate son
His daughter Elizabeth de Vere, who married William Stanley, the 6th Earl of Derby, in January 1594/1595, at the Royal Court at Greenwich
Eight poems by the Earl of Oxford were published in The Paradise of Dainty Devises (1576)About this person
Oxford was heir to the second oldest earldom in the kingdom, a court favourite for a time, a sought-after patron of the arts, and noted by his contemporaries as a lyric poet and court playwright, but his volatile temperament precluded him from attaining any courtly or governmental responsibility and contributed to the dissipation of his estate.
