Robert de Vere, 19th Earl of Oxford

Robert de Vere
19th Earl of Oxford
File:Robert de Vere, 19th Earl of Oxford, 1629, Cornelius Johnson.jpg Robert de Vere by Cornelis Johnson, 1629.
Spouse(s)	Beatrice van Hemmema
Father	Hugh de Vere
Mother	Eleanor Walsh
Born	after 23 August 1575
Died	7 August 1632(1632-08-07) Maastricht

Robert de Vere, 19th Earl of Oxford (b. after 23 August 1575 – 7 August 1632) was a British soldier, and penultimate Earl of Oxford.

Life

He was the second cousin of Henry de Vere, 18th Earl of Oxford.

When Henry died some time between 2 and 9 June 1625, Robert emerged as the heir apparent to the earldom. Robert's claim was by his descent from John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford, but his title was not immediately confirmed. He was considered to have an inadequate estate in England, and only after a long debate in the House of Lords in April 1626 did he eventually secure his title.

File:Beatrice, Countess of Oxford by Anthony van Dyck.jpg

Beatrice, Robert de Vere's wife (Anthony van Dyck)

He returned to his home in the Low Countries, where he had made a career for himself as a soldier in the Dutch army. He married Beatrice, or Bauck, daughter of the Dutch nobleman Sierck van Hemmema. In 1632, Robert was killed while taking part in the siege of Maastricht. His title passed to his five-year-old son Aubrey, who would in turn become the last in an almost 600-year line of de Vere earls of Oxford.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Robert de Vere, 19th Earl of Oxford

16. John de Vere

8. John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford

17. Alice Kilrington

4. Aubrey de Vere

9. Elizabeth Trussell

2. Hugh de Vere

20. Thomas Spring of Lavenham

10. Sir John Spring

21. Anne King

5. Margaret Spring

22. Sir William Waldegrave

11. Dorothy Waldegrave

1. Robert de Vere, 19th Earl of Oxford

6. William Walsh

3. Eleanor Walsh

References

Peerage of England
Preceded by Henry de Vere	Earl of Oxford 1625–1632	Succeeded by Aubrey de Vere