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13TH EARL OF JOHN DE VERE OXFORD (144...

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EARL OF See also:JOHN DE See also:VERE See also:OXFORD (1443-1513)  , was second son of See also:John, the 12th See also:earl, a prominent Lancastrian, who, together with his eldest son See also:Aubrey de See also:Vere, was executed in See also:February 1462 . John de Vere the younger was himself attainted, but two years later was restored as 13th earl . But his See also:loyalty was suspected, and for a See also:short See also:time at the end of 1468 he was in the See also:Tower . He sided with See also:Warwick, the See also:king-maker, in the See also:political movements of 1469, accompanied him in his See also:exile next See also:year, and assisted in the Lancastrian restoration of 1470-1471 . As See also:constable he tried John Tiptoft, earl of See also:Worcester, who had condemned his See also:father nine years before . At the See also:battle of See also:Barnet, See also:Oxford was victorious in command of the Lancastrian right, but his men got out of See also:hand, and before they could be rallied Warwick was defeated . Oxford escaped to See also:France . In 1473 he organized a Lancastrian expedition, which, after an attempted landing in See also:Essex, sailed See also:west and seized St See also:Michael's See also:Mount in See also:Cornwall . It was only after a four months' See also:siege that Oxford was forced to surrender in February 1474 . He was sent to Hammes near See also:Calais, whence, ten years later, in See also:August 1484, he escaped and joined See also:Henry Tudor in See also:Brittany . He fought for Henry in high command at See also:Bosworth, and was rewarded by restoration to his See also:title, estates and hereditary See also:office of See also:Lord See also:Chamberlain . At Stoke on the 16th of See also:June 1486 he led the See also:van of the royal See also:army .

In 1492 he was in command in the expedition to See also:

Flanders, and in 1497 was foremost in the defeat of the Cornish rebels on See also:Blackheath . See also:Bacon (Hist. of Henry VII. p . 192, ed . Lumby) has preserved a See also:story that when in the summer of 1498 Oxford entertained the king at See also:Castle Hedingham, he assembled a See also:great number of his retainers in See also:livery; Henry thanked the earl for his reception, but fined him 15,000 marks for the See also:breach of the See also:laws . Oxford was high steward at the trial of the earl of Warwick, and one of the commissioners for the trial of See also:Sir See also:James Tyrell and others in May 1502 . Partly through See also:ill-See also:health he took little See also:part after-wards in public affairs, and died on the loth of See also:March 1513 . He was twice married, but See also:left no See also:children . Oxford is frequently mentioned in the Paston Letters, which include twenty written by him, mostly to Sir John Paston the younger . See The Paston Letters, ed . J . See also:Gairdner; See also:Chronicles of See also:London, ed . C .

L . See also:

Kingsford (1905); Sir James See also:Ramsay, See also:Lancaster and See also:York; and The Political See also:History of See also:England, vols. iv. and v . (1906) . (C . L .

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