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This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. Please improve this article if you can. (September 2008) John de Vere (before 1490–1540), 15th Earl of Oxford, was an English aristocrat and courtier. Contents 1 Biography 2 Family 3 Ancestry 4 References // Biography John de Vere was a Protestant, the son of John de Vere and Alice Kilrington (alias Colbroke), and the great-grandson of Richard de Vere, 11th Earl of Oxford, succeeding his second cousin, John de Vere, 14th Earl of Oxford. Oxford was Esquire of the body in 1509, knighted by Henry VIII in 1513, and in attendance to Henry VIII during meetings with the French King Francis I of France and the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V in 1520. In 1529, he had a life grant of the great chamberlainship and signed the lords' petition against Wolsey. He was made a Knight of the Garter in 1530 and became a royal councillor in 1531. Oxford bore the crown at Anne Boleyn's coronation, but later served on commissions trying her and her alleged lovers in 1536 and also the panels for the Courtenay conspiracy trials in 1538. A Venetian report in 1531 asserted '[that he was] a man of valour and authority … and it is his custom always to cavalcade with two hundred horse’ (CSP Venice, 1527–33, 295). He died on 21 March 1540 and was buried at Castle Hedingham." Family The fifteenth earl of Oxford married twice: First, Christian Foderingey (b. c. 1481, d. in or before 1498, the daughter of Sir Thomas Foderingey (c.1446–1491), Lord of South Acre and his wife Elizabeth Doreward (c.1473–1491) the granddaughter of John Doreward (d. 1420) serjeant-at-law and Speaker of the House of Commons. They had no children. Second, Elizabeth Trussell, the daughter of Edward Trussell of Kibblestone, Staffordshire and, Margaret Dunn. They had seven children: Elizabeth de Vere John de Vere, 16th Earl of Oxford Frances de Vere, wife of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey and mother of the fourth Duke of Norfolk Aubrey de Vere, whose grandson, Robert, became the 19th Earl of Oxford Robert de Vere Anne de Vere Geoffrey de Vere Ancestry Ancestors of John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford                                     8. Richard de Vere, 11th Earl of Oxford                       4. Robert de Vere                             9. Alice Sergeaux                       2. John de Vere                                   10. Sir Hugh Courtenay                       5. Joan Courtenay                             11. Philippa Arcedekne                       1. John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford                                         6. Walter Kilrington                             3. Alice Kilrington                                 References Jonathan Hughes, ‘Vere, John de, sixteenth earl of Oxford (1516-1562)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 13 April 2005 Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, (2005), 744. Peerage of England Preceded by John de Vere Earl of Oxford 1526–1539 Succeeded by John de Vere This biography of an earl in the Peerage of England is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. v • d • e