Edward de Vere
Seventeenth Earl of Oxford
Elizabethan Courtier, Poet and Playwright
1550 – 1604
At the time that Elizabeth Tudor became Queen of England in 1558, the Earldom of Oxford was the longest and most illustrious line of nobles in the country, its direct ancestor, Aubrey de Vere, having held land under Edward the Confessor, and later marrying into [...]
