John (de Vere), 7th Earl of Oxford

circa 1312 - 1360  (~ 47 years)

• Name	John (de Vere)  [1]
  Suffix	7th Earl of Oxford
  Born	circa 12 March 1311/12  [2]
  Gender	Male
  Hereditary Title	1331  [1]
  	7th Earl of Oxford [E., 1142]
  	Died at the Siege of Rheims. [3]
  Died	23/24 Jan. 1359/60	Rheims, France   [3]
  Buried	Colne Priory, Earls Colne, Essex, England   [4]
  Person ID	I920	British Peerage & Gentry
  Last Modified	4 March 2019

  
  

  Family	Hon. Maud de Badlesmere
  Married	Before 27 March 1336  [5]
  Children	+ 1. Thomas (de Vere), 8th Earl of Oxford,   b. circa 1336/37,   d. Sept. 1371, Great Bentley, Essex, England  (Age ~ 34 years)
  Last Modified	4 March 2019
  Family ID	F505	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Heraldry

  Arms of de Vere (Earl of Oxford) Quarterly, Gules and Or, in the 1st quarter a mullet Argent. Source: Burke's General Armory, last ed. (1884), Fourth Impression (London: Heraldry Today, 1984), page 1054.

  
  

• Sources

  [S22] The Complete Peerage, G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume X, page 222. [S22] The Complete Peerage, G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume X, page 222. Citing Inq. p. m. on Robert, late Earl of Oxford, Cal., volume vii, no. 379. [S22] The Complete Peerage, G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume X, page 223. Citing Cal. Inq. p. m., volume x, no. 638; Walsingham, Hist. Anglicana, Rolls Ser., volume i, page 288 (year only). [S22] The Complete Peerage, G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume X, page 223. In his will he directed that he should be buried in the Lady Chapel of Colne Priory, at the head of his sons John and Robert. Among the tombs still at Earls Colne in 1653 was one with alabaster effigies of an Earl of Oxford and his wife (Add. MSS. 27348–50), which probably represented Earl John and Maud (Fairweather, Archæologia, volume lxxxvii, plate 88, figure 1, and page 291, note 2). [S22] The Complete Peerage, G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume X, page 223. Citing Cal. Patent Rolls, 1334–38, page 233.