John de Vere, 16th Earl of Oxford (1516 – 3 August 1562) was born to John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford

John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford

John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford was an English peer and courtier.-Biography:John de Vere was the son of John de Vere and Alice Kilrington , 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...

 and Elizabeth Trussel

Elizabeth de Vere, Countess of Oxford

Elizabeth de Vere , Countess of Oxford was an English noblewoman. Through her mother's family, she was the 5 x great granddaughter of King Edward III.-Family and Children:...

, daughter of Edward Trussel. He was styled Lord Bolebec 1526 to 1540 before he succeeded to his father's title.

He married first Dorothy Neville, daughter of Ralph Neville, 4th Earl of Westmorland

Ralph Neville, 4th Earl of Westmorland

Ralph Neville, 4th Earl of Westmorland KG, PC was an English peer and soldier.-Early life:Ralph Neville was born to Ralph Neville, Lord Neville and Edith Sandys, and was the grandson of Ralph Neville, 3rd Earl of Westmorland and Isabel Booth. When his father died in 1498 he took the style of Lord...

 in Holywell

Holywell

Holywell is the fifth largest town in Flintshire, North Wales, lying to the west of the estuary of the River Dee.-History:The market town of Holywell takes its name from the St Winefride's Well, a holy well surrounded by a chapel...

, Shoreditch

Shoreditch

Shoreditch is an area of London within the London Borough of Hackney in England. It is a built-up part of the inner city immediately to the north of the City of London, located east-northeast of Charing Cross.-Etymology:...

, London

London

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 on 3 July 1536, and second Margery Golding in Belchamp St Paul

Belchamp St Paul

Belchamp St Paul is a village and civil parish in Essex, England.It is located approximately west of Sudbury, Suffolk and is north-northeast from the county town of Chelmsford. It is near Belchamp Otten and Belchamp Walter. The village is in the district of Braintree and in the parliamentary...

 on 1 August 1548. His two marriages produced three children; Katherine de Vere by his first wife, Dorothy, and Edward de Vere

Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford

Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford was an Elizabethan courtier, playwright, lyric poet, sportsman and patron of the arts, and is currently the most popular alternative candidate proposed for the authorship of Shakespeare's works....

, later the 17th Earl, and Mary de Vere

Mary de Vere

Mary de Vere , married names Bertie and Hart was a noblewoman of the sixteenth century.In 1577 the hard-drinking, straight-talking Peregrine Bertie successfully courted Mary, sister of the Earl of Oxford, a lady known, in the words of Mark Anderson, “for her quick temper and harsh tongue.” Though...

 by his second wife, Margery. After his death, he was buried in Castle Hedingham

Castle Hedingham

Castle Hedingham is a small village in northeast Essex, England, located four miles west of Halstead and is situated in the Colne Valley on the ancient road from Colchester, Essex, to Cambridge....

, Essex

Essex

Essex is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East region of England, and one of the home counties. It is located to the northeast of Greater London. It borders with Cambridgeshire and Suffolk to the north, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent to the South and London to the south west...

on 31 August 1562.

He was the patron of the Oxford's Men, a dramatic troupe, from 1555 until his death in 1562.

External links

• His will