The 17th Earl of Oxford, hereditary Lord Great Chamberlain of England, scion of the noble house of Vere (his ancestor Aubrey received titles and estates from William the Conqueror in 1066). Poet, playwright, and courtier to Queen Elizabeth I, he received his classical education at Cambridge and Oxford, studied law at Gray's Inn, and had his own ...
For truth is truth though never so old, and time cannot make that false which was once true. - in a letter to his brother-in-law, Robert Cecil, 7 May 1603
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Edward de Vere and Anne Cecil (Countess of Oxford and Lady-in-Waiting to Queen Elizabeth I), had three daughters; Elizabeth, born in July 1575, Bridget, born in April 1584, and Susan, born in May 1587. Susan married Philip Herbert, Earl of Montgomery, to whom the First Folio is dedicated.
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He was later married to Elizabeth Trentham, the second Countess of Oxford, also Lady-in-Waiting to the Queen. They had a son, Henry, born on February 24, 1593.
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In March 1581, Anne Vavasour, another of the Queen's Ladies, bore him a son, named Edward, for which they were all imprisoned in the Tower of London, until June of that year.
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