John de Vere, 7th Earl of Oxford

John de Vere, 7th Earl of Oxford
(c. 12 March 1312 – 24 January 1360) was the nephew and heir of Robert de Vere, 6th Earl of Oxford who succeeded as Earl of Oxford in 1331, after his uncle died without issue.
John de Vere was a trusted captain of Edward III in the king's wars in Scotland and France, and took part in both the Battle of Crécy and the Battle of Poitiers. He died campaigning in France in 1360. Throughout his career, he was closely associated with William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton, who was his brother-in-law.
Family background and marriage
John de Vere was the only son of Alphonse de Vere, and Jane, daughter of Sir Richard Foliot. Alphonse was the third son of Robert de Vere, 5th Earl of Oxford and apparently died shortly before 20 December 1328, when a writ was issued for inquisitions post mortem into the land that he held direct from the King. These hearings established that Alphonse's next heir was his son John, then aged 15 years and more. The manors concerned were Aston Sandford, Buckinghamshire, Westwick by St Albans and Great Hormead, Hertfordshire, as well as property at Beaumont and Althorne in Essex.[1]
Alphonse was a brother of Robert de Vere, 6th Earl of Oxford.[2] When the 6th Earl's son died without issue in 1329, he obtained licence from the king to entail his estates on his nephew, John.[3] It was in this way that John de Vere, when his uncle died 17 April 1331, became Earl of Oxford. He had made homage and received livery by 17 May.[4]
In 1336 John married Maud de Badlesmere, who was the second of the four daughters of Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Baron Badlesmere, of Badlesmere in Kent and Margaret de Clare. Maud was a co-heiress of her brother Giles de Badlesmere, 2nd Baron Badlesmere. When Giles died in 1338, this brought a significant part of the Badlesmere inheritance into de Vere's hands. The marriage also forged a strong bond with William Bohun, Earl of Northampton, who had married Badlesmere's third daughter, Elizabeth de Badlesmere, and thus became Oxford's brother-in-law.[2][5] The two campaigned together, sat on the same commissions and died the same year.[2]
Career
De Vere's military career began with service on Edward III's Scottish campaigns, in the 1330s Second War of Scottish Independence. He took part in the Roxburgh campaign of 1334–5, and in the summer campaign of 1335.[2] Later in the decade, England's military efforts turned towards France, with the beginning of the Hundred Years' War.[6]
Fearing a French invasion of England, Oxford was made responsible for the defence of London and the Essex coast.[7] In the spring of 1340, de Vere and Thomas Beauchamp, 11th Earl of Warwick were summoned to reinforce the Earl of Salisbury in Flanders with two hundred men to counter a French invasion of the Low Countries. Despite the urgency of the order, Oxford and Warwick did not arrive until April and then with barely two dozen men.[8]
While serving in the Low Countries, Oxford was therefore out of the country during Edward's disputes with Archbishop John de Stratford. Oxford was not forced to take sides in the conflict, and has been described as a "political neutral".[6]
After a period in England, de Vere returned to the continent in 1342, where he served with Northampton, who had been made lieutenant of Brittany. They both took part in the Battle of Morlaix that year. The next year the two earls were sent to Scotland to relieve Lochmaben Castle, and in 1345 they were again campaigning in Brittany. Tradition has it that, returning to England, their ships were forced ashore by bad weather, and the party was robbed of their possessions by the locals.[2]
In the summer of 1346 de Vere was campaigning with the king in Normandy, and took part in the Battle of Crécy. According to the chronicler Froissart, de Vere was fighting with the Black Prince, and was among the captains who sent a request to Edward III for reinforcements when the king famously answered 'Let the boy win his spurs'. Oxford was also at the siege of Calais, but reportedly fell ill in 1348, and did not take part in any major campaigning until 1355.[2]
In 1355, he was again in the company of the Black Prince as an advisor and commander,[9] and took part in the prince's great raid in Languedoc. Alongside the earls of Suffolk and Salisbury, Oxford commanded a large force of one thousand men that marched up the Dordogne valley and invaded the great viscounty of Turenne. Oxford's men captured numerous towns and castles in Turenne, garrisoning them to launch raids into the surrounding provinces until they were bought out in the fall of 1357.[10]
On 19 September 1356, at the Battle of Poitiers, Oxford was in command of the vanguard together with the Earl of Warwick. While Warwick's men bore the brunt of the French attack, de Vere led a group of archers along the riverbed until they were able to flank the French cavalry, firing upon the poorly protected rumps of their horses. Oxford's attack inflicted significant damage and did much to secure the English victory.[2][11]
His last campaign was Edward III's Rheims campaign in 1359–60. Here he died, probably during the raid into Burgundy, on 23 or 24 January 1360. He was buried in the de Vere family's burial place Colne Priory in Essex.[2]
Descendants and assessment
Maud de Vere died in 1366. The couple had four sons and three daughters.[12] The eldest son, John, married Elizabeth Courtenay, daughter of Hugh Courtenay, 10th Earl of Devon, but died before his father, in 1350.[13] (After the death of her husband, Elizabeth married Sir Andrew Luttrell of Chilton (in Thorverton), Devon.) Another son, Robert, also died in his father's lifetime. The eldest remaining son was then Thomas, born about 1336 or 1337, who succeeded his father in 1360. Thomas's son Robert de Vere, 9th Earl of Oxford succeeded at his father's death, but with Robert's forfeiture in 1392, the earldom was given to Robert's uncle Aubrey – the seventh earl's fourth son. The eldest daughter, Margaret, married three times, while of the second, Matilda, little is known.[14] The third daughter, Elizabeth, married Sir Hugh Courtenay, eldest son and heir of Hugh de Courtenay, 10th Earl of Devon.[15]
John de Vere, in the family tradition of the "fighting de Veres",[16] was active in almost all major military engagements in the years from 1340 to 1360.[17] On the Roxburgh campaign he brought a retinue of twenty-eight men-at-arms and twelve mounted archers.[2] In Brittany in 1342, the retinue had grown to forty men-at-arms, one banneret, nine knights, twenty-nine esquires, and thirty mounted archers.[16] His retinue was of diverse composition, and also included foreign mercenaries.[18] At one point, in the Battle of Poitiers, John Hawkwood, who was later to make his fortune as a condottiero in Italy, also served with de Vere.[19] Yet in spite of this, de Vere never distinguished himself, particularly as a military commander. Neither did he receive a great amount of royal patronage, and was never made a member of the Order of the Garter. This was largely a consequence of the de Vere family's relatively modest resources among the English peerage. As an example can be mentioned that in late 1340, £349 were owed to Oxford in arrears for his services, yet at the same time, the king owed Northampton two debts of £782 and £1237.[20] This obstacle of resources and status John de Vere was unable to overcome either by marriage or warfare.[2]
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From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_de_Vere,_7th_Earl_of_Oxford
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Sir John de Vere, 7th Earl of Oxford, Master Chamberlain of England1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22
Last Edited 4 Apr 2020
M, #15542, b. circa 12 March 1312, d. 23 January 1360 or 24 January 1360
Father Sir Alfonse de Vere23,24 b. b 1262, d. c 20 Dec 1329
Mother Joan Foliot23,24 b. c 1282
Sir John de Vere, 7th Earl of Oxford, Master Chamberlain of England was born circa 12 March 1312 at of Aston Sandford, Buckinghamshire, England.25,11,22 He married Maud de Badlesmere, daughter of Sir Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Baron Badlesmere, Sheriff of Glamorganshire, Constable of Dover Castle & the Cinque Ports and Margaret de Clare, before 27 March 1336; They had 4 sons (John; Sir Thomas, 8th Earl of Oxford; Sir Aubrey, 10th Earl of Oxford; & Robert) and 3 daughters (Margaret, wife of Sir Henry, 3rd Lord Beaumont, of Sir Nicholas de Lovaine, & of Sir John, 1st Lord Devereux; Maud; & Elizabeth, wife of Sir Henry de Courtenay, of Sir John, 3rd Lord Mowbray, & of Sir William de Cossington).3,4,6,9,10,11,13,14,16,19,21,22 Sir John de Vere, 7th Earl of Oxford, Master Chamberlain of England died on 23 January 1360 or 24 January 1360 at Seige of Reims, Reims, Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France; Buried at Colne Priory, Earls Colne, Essex.26,11,22
Family
Maud de Badlesmere b. c 1308, d. 24 May 1366
Children

• Elizabeth de Vere+27,28,6,8,10,11,16,18,21,22 d. 16 Aug 1375
• Sir John de Vere29,30,9,11,19,22 b. c Dec 1335, d. b 23 Jun 1350
• Margaret de Vere+31,4,5,7,32,11,12,14,15,17,33,20,22 b. b 1336, d. 15 Jun 1398
• Sir Thomas de Vere, 8th Earl of Oxford, Chamberlain of England+34,35,11,22 b. c 1336, d. bt 12 Sep 1371 - 18 Sep 1371
• Sir Aubrey de Vere, 10th Earl Oxford, Constable of Wallingford & Hadleigh Castles+36,11,22 b. c 1340, d. 23 Apr 1400

Citations
1.[S4244] Unknown author, Ancestral Roots of 60 Colonists by F. L. Weis, p. 80.
2.[S11568] The Complete Peerage, by Cokayne, Vol. X, p. 222-225.
3.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 93.
4.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 158-159.
5.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 269-270.
6.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 542.
7.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 213-214.
8.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 489-490.
9.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 60.
10.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 202-203.
11.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 267.
12.[S6] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry: 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 441-442.
13.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 223.
14.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 310-312.
15.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 37-38.
16.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 327.
17.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 657-658.
18.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 427-428.
19.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 643.
20.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 107.
21.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 182-183.
22.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 257.
23.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 266.
24.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 256.
25.[S11568] The Complete Peerage, by Cokayne, Vol. X, p. 222.
26.[S11568] The Complete Peerage, by Cokayne, Vol. X, p. 223-224.
27.[S11568] The Complete Peerage, by Cokayne, Vol. IX, p. 383.
28.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 530-531.
29.[S11568] The Complete Peerage, by Cokayne, Vol. X, p. 225.
30.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 474.
31.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 85.
32.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 40.
33.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 619.
34.[S11568] The Complete Peerage, by Cokayne, Vol. X, p. 226-227.
35.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 168.
36.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 737.
From: https://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p517.htm#...
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John de Vere, 7th Earl of Oxford was born circa 12 March 1311/12.2 He was the son of Sir Alphonsus de Vere and Jane Foliot.2 He married Maud de Badlesmere, daughter of Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Lord Badlesmere and Margaret de Clare, before 27 March 1336.2 He died in January 1359.
He succeeded as the 7th Earl of Oxford [E., 1142] on 17 April 1331.1 He fought in the Battle of Crécy in 1340.2 He held the office of Hereditary Master Chamberlain of England, which he successfully claimed.2 He fought in the Battle of Poitiers in 1356.2
Children of John de Vere, 7th Earl of Oxford and Maud de Badlesmere
1. Elizabeth de Vere+2 d. 23 Sep 1375
2. Robert de Vere2 d. b 1359
3. Margaret de Vere+1 d. 15 Jun 1398
4. Maud de Vere3 d. 1359
5. John de Vere2 b. c Dec 1335, d. b 23 Jun 1350
6. Thomas de Vere, 8th Earl of Oxford+2 b. c 1336, d. 18 Sep 1371
7. Aubrey de Vere, 10th Earl of Oxford+2 b. c 1339, d. 23 Apr 1400
Citations
1.[S11] Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), page 78. Hereinafter cited as Britain's Royal Families.
2.[S37] BP2003 volume 3, page 3464. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S37]
3.[S37] BP2003. [S37]
From: https://www.thepeerage.com/p10690.htm#i106896
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John De VERE (7° E. Oxford)
Born: 12 Mar 1311
Acceded: 1331
Died: 23 Jan 1359, siege of Rheims
Buried: Colne Priory
Notes: The Complete Peerage vol.X,p.222-224.
Father: Alphonso De VERE (Sir)
Mother: Jane FOLIOT
Married: Maud De BADLESMERE (C. Oxford) (b. ABT 1309) BEF 27 Mar 1336
Children:
1. John De VERE (Sir)
2. Margaret VERE (B. Beaumont)
3. Thomas De VERE (8° E. Oxford)
4. Aubrey De VERE (10° E. Oxford)
5. Robert De VERE
6. Maud De VERE
7. Elizabeth De VERE
From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/VERE.htm#John%20De%20VERE%20(7%C2%B0%20E.%20Oxford)
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Sir John de Vere
Birth 12 Mar 1311
Oxford, City of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
Death 24 Jan 1359 (aged 47)
France
Burial Colne Priory
Earls Colne, Braintree District, Essex, England
Find a Grave Memorial ID: 35771002
He died at the Siege of Rheims, France

From another relative Anne Shurtleff Stevens:

7th Earl of Oxford, hereditary Chamberlain of England

Son and heir to Sir Alphonese de Vere and Joan Foliot, grandson of Sir Robert de Vere and Alice de Sanford, Sir Jordan Foliot and Margery Newmarch.

Husband of Maud de Badlesmere, daughter of Bartholomew Badlesmere and Margaret de Clare, widow of Robert FitzPayne. They were married before 27 March 1336 and had four sons and three daughters:

• John, married Elizabeth de Courtenay
• Thomas, 8th Earl of Oxford, his son was the 9th Earl
• Aubrey, 10th Earl of Oxford

Robert

• Margaret, wife of Henry de Beaumont, Nicholas de Lovaine & John Devereaux
• Maud, died unmarried
• Elizabeth, wife of Hugh de Courtenay, Sir John de Mowbray & Sir Wm Cossington

Sir John was heir to his uncle, Sir Robert de Vere, the 6th Earl of Oxford. John sailed with the king in July of 1346 as one of the commanders in the 1st division at Crecy, and took part in the Siege of Calais in 1347. John then sailed with Prince Edward for Bordeaux and commanded the 2nd division in the raid at Languedoc. John was also in joint command of the 1st division at the Battle of Poitiers 19 Sept 1356, where his handful of highly skilled archers contributed to the victory.
Gravesite Details
Colne Priory, Earls Colne, Essex, England
Family Members
Parents
Sir Alphonso de Vere
1266–1329

Joan Foliot de Vere

Spouse
Maud de Badlesmere de Vere
1310–1366

Children
Thomas de Vere
1335–1371

Sir Aubrey de Vere
1338–1400

Margaret de Vere Devereux
1340–1398

Elizabeth de Vere
unknown–1375
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35771002/john_de_vere
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Maud de Badlesmere, Countess of Oxford (1310 – May 1366) was an English noblewoman, and the wife of John de Vere, 7th Earl of Oxford. She, along with her three sisters, was a co-heiress of her only brother Giles de Badlesmere, 2nd Baron Badlesmere, who had no male issue.
At the age of 11 she was imprisoned in the Tower of London along with her mother, Margaret de Clare, Baroness Badlesmere and her four siblings, after the former refused Queen consort Isabella admittance to Leeds Castle and ordered an assault upon her when she attempted entry.
Family
Maud was born at Castle Badlesmere,[citation needed] Kent, England in 1310, the second[citation needed] eldest daughter of Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Baron Badlesmere and Margaret de Clare. She had three sisters, Margery, Elizabeth, and Margaret; all of whom eventually married and had issue. She had one brother, Giles.
Her paternal grandparents were Guncelin de Badlesmere and Joan FitzBernard, and her maternal grandparents were Thomas de Clare, Lord of Thomond and Juliana FitzGerald of Offaly.
On 14 April 1322, when she was twelve years of age, Maud's father was hanged, drawn and quartered by orders of King Edward II, following his participation in the Earl of Lancaster's rebellion and his subsequent capture after the Battle of Boroughbridge. Maud, her siblings,[1] and her mother had been arrested the previous October after the latter had ordered an assault upon Queen consort Isabella after refusing her admittance to Leeds Castle where Baron Badlesmere held the post of governor.[2] Maud's mother, Baroness Badlesmere, remained imprisoned in the Tower of London until 3 November 1322,[3] although it is not known[citation needed] when Maud and her siblings were released. Her brother Giles obtained a reversal of their father's attainder in 1328, and he succeeded to the barony as 2nd Baron Badlesmere. Maud, along with her three sisters, was Giles's co-heiress, as he had married but fathered no children by his wife, Elizabeth Montagu.
Marriages and issue
In June 1316, Maud, aged six, married her first husband, Robert FitzPayn, son of Robert FitzPayn. Welsh historian R. R. Davies relates in his book, Lords and lordship in the British Isles in the late Middle Ages how her father, Lord Badlesmere, when drawing up the marriage contract, sought to provide for Maud's future by ensuring that she would have independent means. He granted her land worth 200 marks per year, and her future father-in-law was constrained to endow her with three manors and their revenues.[4] The marriage did not produce children; and on an unknown date sometime before March 1335 Maud married secondly, John de Vere, 7th Earl of Oxford. Upon her marriage, Maud assumed the title Countess of Oxford. John was a captain in King Edward III's army, and as such participated in the Battle of Crécy and the Battle of Poitiers.
The marriage produced seven children:

• John de Vere (December 1335- before 23 June 1350), married Elizabeth de Courtney as her first husband.
• Thomas de Vere, 8th Earl of Oxford (1336- 18 September 1371), married Maud de Ufford, by whom he had a son Robert de Vere, 9th Earl of Oxford
• Aubrey de Vere, 10th Earl of Oxford (1338- 15 February 1400), married Alice FitzWalter, by whom he had three children, including Richard de Vere, 11th Earl of Oxford
• Robert de Vere (died 1360)
• Elizabeth de Vere (died 23 September 1375), married firstly in 1341, Sir Hugh de Courtney, by whom she had one son, Hugh de Courtney, Lord Courtney; she married secondly John de Mowbray, 3rd Lord Mowbray; she married thirdly on 18 January 1369 Sir William Costyn
• Margaret de Vere (died 15 June 1398), married firstly Henry de Beaumont, 3rd Baron Beaumont (4 April 1340 – 17 June 1369), the son of John de Beaumont, 2nd Baron Beaumont and Eleanor of Lancaster, by whom she had issue; she married secondly Sir Nicholas de Loveyne; she married thirdly after 1375 Sir John Devereux, by whom she had issue.
• Maud de Vere

In June 1338, Maud's brother Giles died without leaving any legitimate issue. A considerable portion of the Badlesmere estates was inherited by Maud and her husband.
Maud died at the de Vere family mansion Hall Place in Earls Colne, Essex in May 1366 at the age of fifty-six years. Evidence given at the various inquisitions post mortem held after her death differ as to whether she died on the 19th, 23rd or 24th day of the month.[5] This source gives details of her numerous properties which were to be found in Essex and six other counties.
Maud was buried in Colne Priory. Her husband had died in 1360.
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From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maud_de_Badlesmere
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John de Vere, 7th Earl of Oxford (c. 12 March 1312 – 24 January 1360) was the nephew and heir of Robert de Vere, 6th Earl of Oxford. He succeeded as Earl of Oxford in 1331, after his uncle died without issue. John de Vere was a trusted captain of Edward III in the king's wars in Scotland and France, and took part in both the Battle of Crécy and the Battle of Poitiers. He died campaigning in France in 1360. Throughout his career he was closely associated with William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton, who was his brother-in-law.

John de Vere was the only son of Alfonso de Vere, and Jane, daughter of Sir Richard Foliot. Alfonso was a younger son of Robert de Vere, 5th Earl of Oxford, and brother of Robert de Vere, 6th Earl of Oxford. When the younger Earl Robert's son died without issue in 1329, the earl obtained licence from the king to entail his estates on his nephew, John.[2] It was in this way that John de Vere, when his uncle died 17 April 1331, became Earl of Oxford. He had made homage and received livery by 17 May.

John de Vere, 7th Earl of Oxford and 8th Great Chamberlain, born in 1313, became one of the most famous "Fighting Earls of Oxford," renowned for bravery, gallantry, and chivalry as one of Edward III's greatest generals, serving in Scotland, France, Flanders, Brittany and Gascony.

In 1336 he married Maud, who was the second of the four daughters of Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Baron Badlesmere, of Badlesmere in Kent and Margaret de Clare. Maud was a co-heiress of her brother Giles de Badlesmere, 2nd Baron Badlesmere. When Giles died in 1338, this brought a significant part of the Badlesmere inheritance into de Vere's hands. The marriage also forged a strong bond with William Bohun, Earl of Northampton, who had married Badlesmere's third daughter, Elizabeth de Badlesmere and thus became Oxford's brother-in-law.[1][4] The two campaigned together, sat on the same commissions and died the same year.

John de Vere, EO7, was killed during the siege of Rheims on January 24, 1360, during the British invasion of Burgundy. His corpse was brought back to England and interred in the family crypts at Colne Priory.

John's will, dated November 1, 1359, contained bequests to Colne church and to the chapel (called the New Abbey) at Hedingham. EO7 also left instructions to his executors to pay out 400 marks sterling that had been accumulated by his ancestors in aid of the Holy Land.

John EO7 had married, in 1336, Maud Badlesmere [b. 1310, widow of Robert Fitzpayne], second sister and coheir of Giles, lord Badlesmere (d. 1338) of Badlesmere in Kent. The couple had had four sons and one daughter, Margaret or Maud. The sons were Thomas (1337-1371), the 8th Earl of Oxford, Aubrey, who became 10th EO in 1393, and John and Robert, who predeceased their father.

By EO7's marriage, the title of Lord Badlesmere was added to the honorific employed by all later Earls of Oxford. His son Thomas succeeded him.

Maud de Vere died in 1366. The couple had four sons and two daughters. The eldest son, John, married the daughter of Hugh Courtenay, Earl of Devon, but died before his father, in 1350. Also another son, Robert, died in his father's lifetime. The oldest remaining son was then Thomas, born around 1336–7, who succeeded his father in 1360. Thomas's son Robert succeeded at his father's death, but with Robert's forfeiture in 1392, the earldom was given to Robert's uncle Aubrey – the seventh earl's fourth son. The eldest daughter, Margaret, married three times, while of the second, Matilda, little is known.

Soyrces:

  1. Tuck, Anthony (2004-09), "Vere, John de, seventh earl of Oxford (1312–1360)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford: Oxford University Press, http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/28212, retrieved 2008-07-15 

2. ^ McKisack, May (1959). The Fourteenth Century: 1307–1399. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. p. 260. ISBN 0-19-821712-9.
3. ^ Powicke, Maurice; E.B. Fryde (1961). Handbook of British Chronology (2nd ed. ed.). London: Royal Historical Society. pp. p. 442.
4. ^ Ormrod, W.M (2004-09), "Bohun, William de, first earl of Northampton (c.1312–1360)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford: Oxford University Press, http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/2778, retrieved 2008-07-15
5. ^ Ormrod, W.M (1990). The Reign of Edward III. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. pp. pp. 113–4. ISBN 0-300-04876-9.
6. ^ His year of death was not, as claimed in some sources, 1359: Castelli, Jorge H. "De Vere Family". tudorplace.com. http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/VERE.htm. Retrieved 2008-07-15. Based on The Complete Peerage, vol.X, p.222–224.
7. ^ Margaret's three husbands were, in order, Henry, Lord Beaumont (d. 1369), Sir Nicholas Loveyn of Penshurst, Kent, (d. c. 1375), and John Devereux, Baron Devereux (d. 1393); Tuck (2004).
8. ^ a b Brazil, Robert (2003). "EO7 - John de Vere, 7th Earl of Oxford (1313 - 1360)". earlofoxford.com. http://www.earlofoxford.com/eo02.htm. Retrieved 2008-07-15.
9. ^ McKisack (1959), p. 256.
10. ^ A "John de Ispaynea" is recorded as part of his retinue in 1336: Ayton, Andrew (1994). Knights and Warhorses. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. pp. p. 187. ISBN 0-85115-568-5.
11. ^ Caferro, William (2006). John Hawkwood: An English Mercenary in Fourteenth-Century Italy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. pp. 39–42. ISBN 9780801883231.
12. ^ Prestwich, Michael (2007). Plantagenet England 1225–1360. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. p. 330. ISBN 9780199226870.
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7th Earl of Oxford

"He died while in the English army encamped before the walls of Rheims, 24 Jan 1360, it is said from fatigue and exposure. His wife was Maud, sister and heiress of Giles, Lord Badlesmere, and widow of Robert FitzPayn."

(John S. Wurts, MAGNA CHARTA; ; Philadelphia, Brookfield Pub. Co.,1945. Part I&II, p. 133 "... )

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