VERE, Sir Edward (1581-1629), of The Hague, United Provinces.

Family and Education

b. 21 Mar. 1581, illegit. s. of Edward de Vere (d.1604), 17th earl of Oxford, and Anne, da. of Henry Vavasour of Copmanthorpe, Yorks. HMC Hastings, ii. 29; C24/379, unnumb. bdle., Lee v. Vavasour et al., f. 2; Oxford DNB sub Vavasour, Anne; CP, x. 250-4. educ ?Leiden Univ. 1595; Pilgrims and other people from British Isles in Leiden comp. J.W. Tammel, 350. unm. Kntd. 15 or 16 Apr. 1607. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 142. d. c. 12 Aug. 1629. HMC Cowper, i. 391. sig. Edwarde Vere.

Offices Held

Capt.-lt. Neths. by 1601 – 05, capt. 1605, sgt.-maj. 1605 – 14, lt.-col. 1614–d. D.J.B. Trim, ‘Fighting "Jacob’s Warres". The Employment of English and Welsh Mercenaries in the European Wars of Religion’ (London Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 2002), pp. 397–8; HMC Buccleuch, i. 526; Add. 46189, f. 24v.

Parlimentarian

VERE, Sir Edward (1581-1629), of The Hague, United Provinces.

Main residence: The Hague, United Provinces.

Author

B.C.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

VERE, Sir Edward (1581-1629)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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