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Aubrey de Vere, 20th Earl of OxfordKGPC (1627–12 March1702) was the son of the Robert de Vere, 19th Earl of Oxford and his wife Beatrix van Hemmend. A garter is one of the Orders most recognisable insignia. ... A privy council is a body that advises the head of state of a nation, especially in a monarchy. ... Events A Dutch ship makes the first recorded sighting of the coast of South Australia. ... March 12 is the 71st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (72nd in Leap years). ... Events March 8 - William III died; Princess Anne Stuart becomes Queen Anne of England, Scotland and Ireland. ...
On 12 April1647, he married Hon. Anne Bayning, a daughter of the 2nd Viscount Bayning. Anne died in 1659 and Aubrey married Diana Kirke and they had one child, Lady Diana de Vere, who married King Charles II's illegitimate son, the Duke of St Albans. April 12 is the 102nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (103rd in leap years). ... // Events March 14 - Thirty Years War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm. ... // Events May 25 - Richard Cromwell resigns as Lord Protector of England following the restoration of the Long Parliament, beginning a second brief period of the republican government called the Commonwealth. ... Charles II (29 May 1630–6 February 1685) was the King of England, King of Scots, and King of Ireland from 30 January 1649 (retrospectively de jure) or 29 May 1660 (de facto) until his death. ... Charles Beauclerk (May 8, 1670 - May 10, 1726), was an illegitimate son of King Charles II of England by his mistress Nell Gwynne. ...
VERE, the family of which is extolled by Macaulay as "the longest and most illustrious line of nobles that England has seen," appears to have derived the surname which the verse of Tennyson has made synonymous with ancient blood, from the little village of Ver near Bayeux.
His son Henry, the,8th earl (1593-1625), was twice imprisoned in the Tower as an opponent of Buckingham's policy, fought in the Palatinate and the Low Countries and died on campaign at the Hague in 1625.
Another badge of the Veres was the mullet in the first quarter of their shield, which, at Barnet Field, by a fatal error, was taken for the sun of York.
Earl of Oxford was one of the older titles in the English peerage, and was held for several centuries by the deVere family from 1141.
Edward deVere, 17th Earl of Oxford, is perhaps the most famous of the line, because of his emergence as the most popular candidate (besides Shakspeare of Stratford) as the actual author of the works of William Shakespeare (see Shakespearean authorship).
AubreydeVere, 20thEarl of Oxford (1627-1703) (dormant 1703)
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