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9TH EARL OF ROBERT DE VERE OXFORD (13...

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EARL OF See also:ROBERT DE See also:VERE See also:OXFORD (1362-1392)  , See also:English courtier, was the only son of See also:Thomas de See also:Vere, 8th See also:earl of(d . 1346), and a descendant of See also:King See also:Henry III . He became 9th earl of See also:Oxford on his See also:father's See also:death in 1371, and married Philippa (d . 1412), daughter of his See also:guardian Ingelram de Couci, earl of See also:Bedford, a son-in-See also:law of See also:Edward III., quickly becoming very intimate with See also:Richard II . Already hereditary See also:great See also:chamberlain of See also:England, Oxford was made a member of the privy See also:council and a See also:Knight of the Garter; while castles and lands were bestowed upon him, and he was constantly in the See also:company of the See also:young king . In 1385 Richard decided to send his friend to govern See also:Ireland, and Oxford was given extensive rights in that See also:country and was created See also:marquess of See also:Dublin for See also:life; but although preparations were made for his See also:journey he did not leave England . Meanwhile the discontent See also:felt at Richard's incompetence and extravagance was increasing, one of the contributory causes thereto being the king's partiality for Oxford, who was regarded with See also:jealousy by the nobles and who made powerful enemies about this See also:time by divorcing his wife, Philippa, and by marrying a Bohemian See also:lady . The king, however, indifferent to the gathering See also:storm, created Vere See also:duke of Ireland in See also:October 1386, and gave him still more extensive See also:powers in that country, and at once matters reached a See also:climax . Richard was deprived of his authority for a See also:short time, and Vere was ordered in vain to proceed to Ireland . The latter was then among those who were accused by the king's See also:uncle Thomas of See also:Woodstock, duke of See also:Gloucester, and his supporters in See also:November 1387; and rushing into the See also:north of England he gathered an See also:army to defend his royal See also:master and himself . At Radcot See also:Bridge in See also:Oxfordshire, however, his men fled before the troops of Gloucester, and Oxford himself escaped in disguise to the Nether-lands . In the See also:parliament of 1388 he was found guilty of See also:treason and was condemned to death, but as he remained abroad the See also:sentence was never carried out .

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exile, See also:Michael de la See also:Pole, duke of See also:Suffolk, he appears to have lived in See also:Paris until after the treaty between England and See also:France in See also:June 1389, when he took See also:refuge at See also:Louvain . He was killed by a See also:boar whilst See also:hunting, and See also:left no See also:children . In 1395 his See also:body was brought from Louvain to England, and was buried in the priory at Earl's See also:Colne, See also:Essex . See T . See also:Walsingham, Historia Anglicana, edited by H . T . See also:Riley (See also:London, 1863–1864) ; J . See also:Froissart, Chroniques, edited by S . Luce and G . Raynaud (Paris, 1869–1897) ; H . Wallon, Richard H . (Paris, 1864) ; and .

W . See also:

Stubbs, Constitutional See also:History, vol. ii . (Oxford, 1896) .

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