Elizabeth de Vere (''née'' Trussell), Countess of Oxford (1496 – before July 1527) was an
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noblewoman
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. As a young child she became a
royal ward.
She married
John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford
John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford, Lord Great Chamberlain KG PC (c. 1482 – 21 March 1540). was an English peer and courtier.
Career
John de Vere, born about 1482, was the son of John de Vere and Alice Kilrington (alias Colbroke), and the gr ...
, and by him was mother of the
16th Earl and grandmother of
Sir Francis and
Sir Horace Vere
Horace Vere, 1st Baron Vere of Tilbury (1565 – 2 May 1635) (also ''Horatio Vere'' or ''Horatio de Vere'') was an English military leader during the Eighty Years' War and the Thirty Years' War, a brother of Francis Vere. He was sent to the P ...
, the 'fighting Veres'.
Family
Elizabeth Trussell, born in 1496, was the daughter of Edward Trussell (c.1478 – 16 June 1499) of
Elmesthorpe
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,
Leicestershire, only son of Sir William Trussell (d. before 24 June 1480) of Elmesthorpe,
Knight of the Body for
King Edward IV, by Margaret Kene. The Trussells were a 'very ancient Warwickshire family'; Elizabeth's ancestor, Sir Warin Trussell, was of
Billesley, Warwickshire
Billesley is a village and civil parish in the Stratford district of Warwickshire, England, just off the A46 road, between Stratford and Alcester. According to the 2001 Census, the parish had a population of 46. From the 2011 Census the popul ...
.
Elizabeth Trussell's mother was Margaret Donne, the daughter of
Sir John Donne
Sir John Donne (c.1420s – January 1503) was a Welsh courtier, diplomat and soldier, a notable figure of the Yorkist party. In the 1470s he commissioned the ''Donne Triptych'', a triptych altarpiece by Hans Memling now in the National Galle ...
(1450–1503) of
Kidwelly
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,
Carmarthenshire
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, and Elizabeth Hastings (c.1450 – 1508), daughter of Sir Leonard Hastings and Alice Camoys, and sister of
William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings
William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings KG (c. 1431 – June 1483) was an English nobleman. A loyal follower of the House of York during the Wars of the Roses, he became a close friend and one of the most important courtiers of King Edward IV, ...
. Sir John Donne's mother, Joan Scudamore, was the granddaughter of the Welsh rebel,
Owain Glyndŵr.
Elizabeth had a brother, John Trussell (d.1499), to whom she was heir.
Life
![Hans Memling 077](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/Hans_Memling_077.jpg)
Elizabeth's father, Edward Trussell, had been a
ward
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of
William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings
William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings KG (c. 1431 – June 1483) was an English nobleman. A loyal follower of the House of York during the Wars of the Roses, he became a close friend and one of the most important courtiers of King Edward IV, ...
, and at Hastings' death in 1483 was still a minor. In his will, Hastings expressed the wish that Trussell's wardship be purchased by Hastings' brother-in-law,
Sir John Donne
Sir John Donne (c.1420s – January 1503) was a Welsh courtier, diplomat and soldier, a notable figure of the Yorkist party. In the 1470s he commissioned the ''Donne Triptych'', a triptych altarpiece by Hans Memling now in the National Galle ...
:
Also I will that mine executors give to my sister Dame Elizabeth Don 100 marks . . . Also where I have the ward and marriage of Edward Trussell, I will that it be sold and the money employed to the performing of this my will and for the weal of my soul; and if my brother Sir John Don will buy the said ward, I will that he be preferred therein before any other by £10.
After her father's death on 16 June 1499 and the death of her brother, John, in the same year, Elizabeth Trussell became a royal ward. Her wardship and marriage were initially purchased from
King Henry VII by
George Grey, 2nd Earl of Kent
George Grey, 2nd Earl of Kent, (1454 – 25 December 1505) was the son of Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent and Lady Katherine Percy. He was the Second Earl of Kent from 1490 to 1505.
Biography
George Grey, 2nd Earl of Kent and 5th Baron Grey de ...
(d. 21 December 1503), who intended her as a bride for
Sir Henry Grey (d. 24 September 1562), the 2nd Earl's son by his second marriage to Katherine Herbert, daughter of
William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke, by Anne Devereux, the daughter of
Sir Walter Devereux. However, after the 2nd Earl's death,
Richard Grey, 3rd Earl of Kent
Richard Grey, 3rd Earl of Kent KG (1481 – 3 May 1524) was an English peer.
Family
He was a son of George Grey, 2nd Earl of Kent and his first wife Anne Woodville. His maternal grandparents were Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers and Jacq ...
, the 2nd Earl's eldest son and heir by his first marriage to
Anne Woodville
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, abducted Elizabeth Trussell, a crime for which the King levied a heavy fine against him:
Aged at least twenty-five when he succeeded his father in 1503, he 3rd Earl
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wasted his family's fortunes — possibly, as Dugdale says, he was a gambler. In a striking series of alienations he gave away or sold most of the lands, principally in Bedfordshire, that he had inherited . . . The earl also fell quickly into debt to the king: he failed to pay livery for his father's lands, and he was fined 2500 marks for abducting Elizabeth Trussell, whose wardship the second earl had left to Richard's half-brother Henry; he then failed to keep up the instalments laid down for the payment of the fine.
As a result of these events Elizabeth Trussell's wardship and marriage again came into the hands of the King, who sold it on 29 April 1507 to
John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford
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, and his cousin
John de Vere, later 15th Earl of Oxford, for an initial payment of 1000 marks and an additional £387 18s to be paid yearly, less £20 a year for Elizabeth's maintenance. The annual value of Elizabeth's lands had been estimated in the
inquisition post mortem taken after her brother John's death at £271 12s 8d a year.
Marriage and issue
Between 29 April 1507 and 4 July 1509 Elizabeth became the second wife of
John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford
John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford, Lord Great Chamberlain KG PC (c. 1482 – 21 March 1540). was an English peer and courtier.
Career
John de Vere, born about 1482, was the son of John de Vere and Alice Kilrington (alias Colbroke), and the gr ...
, whose first wife was Christian Foderingey (born c. 1481, died before 4 November 1498), the daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Foderingey (c. 1446 – 1491) of
Brockley, Suffolk, by Elizabeth Doreward (c. 1473 – 1491), daughter of William Doreward of
Bocking, Essex, by whom the 15th Earl had no issue.
By her marriage to the 15th Earl of Oxford, Elizabeth had four sons and three daughters:
*
John de Vere, 16th Earl of Oxford (1516 – 3 August 1562), who married firstly, Dorothy Neville (died c. 6 January 1548), second daughter of
Ralph Neville, 4th Earl of Westmorland, by whom he had a daughter, Katherine de Vere, who married
Edward Windsor, 3rd Baron Windsor
Edward Windsor, 3rd Baron Windsor (1532 – 24 January 1574), was an Peerage of England, English peer.
Early life
Edward was born into a landowning family of Norman ancestry that had steadily increased its possessions through the Middle Ages, inc ...
. The Earl married secondly,
Margery Golding
Margery Golding, Countess of Oxford (c. 1526 – 2 December 1568) was the second wife of John de Vere, 16th Earl of Oxford, the mother of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, and the half-sister of Arthur Golding, the English translator.
Early l ...
(d. 2 December 1568), by whom he had a son,
Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, and a daughter,
Mary de Vere.
*Aubrey de Vere (d. 1580), who married firstly Margaret Spring, the daughter of John Spring of
Lavenham
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, by whom he had a daughter, Jane, who married Henry Hunt of
Gosfield
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Places of note include the following:
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,
Essex
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, and a son, Hugh Vere, who married Eleanor Walsh, the daughter of William Walsh. Hugh Vere and Eleanor Walsh had a son, Robert, who inherited the title as
19th Earl of Oxford. Aubrey de Vere married secondly, Bridget Gibbon, the daughter of Sir Anthony Gibbon of
Lynn, Norfolk.
*Robert de Vere (died c. 1598), who married firstly, Barbara Berners, by whom he had a son, John Vere, and a daughter, Mary Vere, and secondly, Joan Hubberd, sister of Edward Hubberd (d. 1602), by whom he had no issue.
*Geoffrey Vere (d. 1572), who in 1556 married Elizabeth Hardekyn (d. December 1615), daughter of Richard Hardekyn (d. 1558) of Wotton House near
Castle Hedingham
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It developed around Hedingham ...
, by whom he had four sons, John Vere (c. 1558 – 1624) of Kirby Hall near
Castle Hedingham
Castle Hedingham is a village in northern Essex, England, located four miles west of Halstead and 3 miles southeast of Great Yeldham in the Colne Valley on the ancient road from Colchester, Essex, to Cambridge.
It developed around Hedingham ...
,
Sir Francis Vere
Sir Francis Vere (1560/6128 August 1609) was a prominent English soldier serving under Queen Elizabeth I fighting mainly in the Low Countries during the Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604) and the Eighty Years' War.
He was a sergeant major-general ...
(born c. 1560), Robert Vere (b. 1562), and
Sir Horatio Vere (b. 1565), and a daughter, Frances Vere (born 1567), who married, as his second wife, the colonial adventurer and author,
Sir Robert Harcourt (1574/5–1631), of
Nuneham
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on 20 March 1598.
*Elizabeth de Vere (born c. 1512), who married, as his second wife,
Thomas Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy of Chiche (d. 28 June 1558), by whom she had three sons,
John Darcy, 2nd Baron Darcy of Chiche (d. 3 March 1581), Aubrey (d. 1558–68) and Robert (died c. 1568), and two daughters, Thomasine and Constance, of whom the latter married Edmund Pyrton (died c. 1609).
*Anne de Vere, (born c. 1522, died c. 14 February 1572), who married firstly,
Edmund Sheffield, 1st Baron Sheffield
Edmund Sheffield, 1st Baron Sheffield, of Butterwick (22 November 1521 – 19 July 1549) was an English nobleman, the son of Sir Robert Sheffield (died 15 November 1531, son of Robert Sheffield and Helen Delves) and his second wife Jane Stanle ...
of Butterwick,
Lincolnshire
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, second but eldest surviving son of
Sir Robert Sheffield
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Robert Sheffield was the son of Sir Robert Sheffield of South Cave, Yorksh ...
by Margaret Zouche, by whom she had a son and three daughters. Edmund Sheffield was slain 31 July 1549 during the suppression of
Kett's rebellion
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. Anne de Vere married secondly, John Brock, esquire, of
Colchester
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Colchester occupies the site of Camulodunum, the first major city in Roman Britain and its first capital. Colch ...
,
Essex
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, son and heir of John Brock of
Little Leighs,
Essex
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, by Agnes Wiseman, by whom she had no issue.
*
Frances de Vere
Frances Howard, Countess of Surrey ( de Vere; c. 1517 – 30 June 1577) was the daughter of John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford, and Elizabeth Trussell. She married firstly, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, son of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, ...
(c. 1517 – 30 June 1577), who married firstly,
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
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, by whom she was the mother of
Jane Howard,
Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk
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, Margaret Howard,
Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton
Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, KG (25 February 154015 June 1614), was an important English aristocrat and courtier. He was suspect as a crypto-Catholic throughout his life, and went through periods of royal disfavour, in which his reputati ...
, and Katherine Howard. Frances de Vere married secondly, Thomas Staynings, by whom she had no issue.
Elizabeth died before July 1527, and was buried in the Church of St Nicholas,
Castle Hedingham
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It developed around Hedingham ...
,
Essex
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, where her effigy can be seen on the black marble tomb erected for Elizabeth and her husband, the 15th Earl.
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Record for Elizabeth Trussell*
ttp://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/darcy-sir-thomas-1506-58 Thomas Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy of Chiche, History of Parliament
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