Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford
Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (12 April 155024 June 1604) was an English peer and courtier of the Elizabethan era.
Oxford was heir to the second oldest earldom in the kingdom, a court favourite for a time, a sought-after patron of the arts, and noted by his contemporaries as a lyric poet and court playwright, but his volatile temperament precluded him from attaining any courtly or governmental responsibility and contributed to the dissipation of his estate.
Since the 1920s he has been among the most popular alternative candidates proposed for the authorship of Shakespeare's works.
De Vere was the only son of John de Vere, 16th Earl of Oxford, and Margery Golding.
After the death of his father in 1562, he became a ward of Queen Elizabeth and was sent to live in the household of her principal advisor, Sir William Cecil.
He married Cecil's daughter, Anne, with whom he had five children.
De Vere was estranged from her for five years after he refused to acknowledge her first child as his.
De Vere was a champion jouster and travelled widely throughout Italy and France.
He was among the first to compose love poetry at the Elizabethan court, and he was praised as a playwright,
though none of the plays known as his survive.
A stream of dedications praised de Vere for his generous patronage of literary, religious, musical, and medical works, and he patronised both adult and boy acting companies, as well as musicians, tumblers, acrobats and performing animals.
He fell out of favour with the Queen in the early 1580s and was exiled from court after impregnating one of her maids of honour, Anne Vavasour, which instigated violent street brawls between de Vere's retainers and her uncles.
De Vere was reconciled to the Queen in 1583, but all opportunities for advancement had been lost.
In 1586, the Queen granted de Vere a £1,000 annuity to relieve his financial distress caused by his extravagance and selling off his income-producing lands for ready money.
After his wife's death, he married Elizabeth Trentham, one of the Queen's maids of honour, with whom he had an heir, Henry de Vere.
He died in 1604, having spent the entirety of his inherited estates.
Frances de Vere, Countess of Surrey
Frances Howard,(" née" de Vere), Countess of Surrey( c. 1517 – 30 June 1577) was the daughter of John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford, and Elizabeth Trussell.
She married firstly, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, son of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, and his wife Elizabeth Stafford, by whom she had two sons and three daughters: Late in 1546, while Frances was expecting her fifth child, her husband was accused of treason and he was subsequently executed in January 1547.
She married secondly Thomas Staynings, by whom she had one child.
Elizabeth Trentham, Countess of Oxford
Elizabeth de Vere, Countess of Oxford, formerly Elizabeth Trentham( d. c. December 1612), was the second wife of the Elizabethan courtier and poet Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford.
Geoffrey de Mandeville, 2nd Earl of Essex
Geoffrey de Mandeville, 2nd Earl of Essex( d 1166) was an English nobleman, the second son of Geoffrey de Mandeville, 1st Earl of Essex and Rohese de Vere, Countess of Essex.
Rohese de Vere, Countess of Essex
Rohese de Vere, Countess of Essex( c. 1110 – 1170 or after) was a noblewoman in England in the Anglo- Norman and Angevin periods.
Married twice, she and her second husband founded the Gilbertine monastery of Chicksands in Bedfordshire.
Bridget de Vere, Countess of Berkshire
Bridget de Vere, Countess of Berkshire (6 April 1584 – December 1630/March 1631) was an English noblewoman, the daughter of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford.
Bridget was brought up by her maternal grandfather, the powerful statesman William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley.
She was also styled Lady Norris of Rycote and Viscountess Thame.
She married Francis Norris, 1st Earl of Berkshire; however, the marriage was not a success, and they separated in 1606.
Sir Aubrey de Vere, 2nd Baronet
Sir Aubrey (Hunt) de Vere, 2nd Baronet (28 August 1788 – 5 July 1846) was an Anglo-Irish poet and landowner.
De Vere was the son of Sir Vere Hunt, 1st Baronet and Hon.
Eleanor Pery, daughter of William Pery, 1st Baron Glentworth.
He was educated at Harrow School, where he was a childhood friend of Lord Byron, and Trinity College, Dublin.
He married Mary Spring Rice, the daughter of Stephen Edward Rice and Catherine Spring, and sister of Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon, in 1807.
He succeeded to his father's title in 1818.
The Hunt/de Vere family estate for 300 years (1657–1957), including the period of the de Vere Baronetcy of Curragh, is the present day Curraghchase Forest Park, in County Limerick.
De Vere spent most of his life on the estate and was closely involved in its management.
He suffered much trouble from his ownership of the island of Lundy, which his father, who was not much of a businessman, had unwisely purchased in 1802, and which became a heavy drain on the family's finances.
Sir Vere was never able to find a purchaser for Lundy, and it took his son until 1834 to dispose of it.
Sir Aubrey stood for election in the 1820 General Election and came in third with 2921 votes.
He changed his surname from Hunt to de Vere in 1832, in reference to his Earl of Oxford ancestors, dating back to Aubrey de Vere I, a tenant-in-chief in England of William the Conqueror in 1086.
He served as High Sheriff of County Limerick in 1811.
Sir Aubrey was a poet.
Wordsworth called his sonnets the most perfect of the age.
These and his drama, "Mary Tudor: An Historical Drama", were published by his son the poet Mr. Aubrey Thomas de Vere in 1875 and 1884.
Margery Golding
Margery Golding, Countess of Oxford( c. 1526 – 2 December 1568) was the second wife of John de Vere, 16th Earl of Oxford, the mother of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, and the half- sister of Arthur Golding, the English translator.
Aubrey de Vere, 10th Earl of Oxford
Aubrey de Vere, 10th Earl of Oxford( c. 1338 – 15 February 1400) was the third son of John de Vere, 7th Earl of Oxford and Maud de Badlesmere, daughter of Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Lord Badlesmere.
Aubrey de Vere had three brothers, John, Thomas, and Robert, and three sisters.
Margaret, Maud and Elizabeth.
His eldest brother, John, married the daughter of Hugh Courtenay, Earl of Devon, but died in 1350 in his father's lifetime.
Another brother, Robert, also died in his father's lifetime.
Aubrey de Vere's third brother, Thomas, succeeded his father as 8th Earl of Oxford, and was in turn succeeded by his only son, Robert de Vere, 9th Earl of Oxford, who died in 1392 without issue, leaving Aubrey de Vere to inherit the earldom.
In 1360 Aubrey de Vere was made steward of the royal forest of Havering in Essex.
In 1367 was retained to' abide for life' with the Black Prince, with a substantial allowance.
He was knighted, made constable of Wallingford Castle in 1375 and also given the honours of Wallingford and St. Valery, though he gave up Wallingford in 1378 for Hadleigh Castle.
Edward III used him as an ambassador in seeking peace with France.
In 1381, de Vere became a Chamberlain of the Royal Household and member of the privy council.
In 1388 his nephew, Robert de Vere, Duke of Ireland and 9th Earl of Oxford was deemed a traitor, causing Aubrey to lose his post of chamberlain.
However, after Robert ’s death in 1392, the king gave Aubrey the title of Earl of Oxford allowing him to take a seat in parliament.
Aubrey ’s son, Richard became the 11th Earl of Oxford on his death.
An administrator of Aubrey de Veer appears as William Tasburgh, of Raylegh, parson, in 1401.
Susan de Vere, Countess of Montgomery
Susan de Vere, Countess of Montgomery (26 May 1587 – 1628/29), was an English court office holder.
She served as lady-in-waiting to the queen consort of England, Anne of Denmark.
She was the youngest daughter of Elizabethan courtier, poet, and playwright Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford.

Question: Who is Susan De Vere, Countess Of Montgomery's paternal grandfather?
Answer: John de Vere, 16th Earl of Oxford