John de vere and alice kilrington
John de vere and alice kilrington
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John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford
English peer and courtier
John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford, Lord Great ChamberlainKGPC (c. 1482 – 21 March 1540)[1] was an English peer and courtier.
Early life
John de Vere, born around 1482, was the son of John de Vere and Alice Kilrington (alias Colbroke), and the great-grandson of Richard de Vere, 11th Earl of Oxford,[2] succeeding his second cousin, John de Vere, 14th Earl of Oxford, in the earldom.[3] De Vere had two stepbrothers, William Courtenay and Walter Courtenay, and a stepsister, Katherine Courtenay, by his mother's second marriage, before 1491, to Sir Walter Courtenay (d.
7 November 1506), a younger son of Sir Philip Courtenay of Powderham, Devon, by Elizabeth Hungerford.[4]
Career
De Vere was an Esquire of the Body at the funeral of Henry VII in 1509,[5] and was knighted by Henry VIII 25 September 1513 at Tournai, following the Battle of the Spurs.[6&#