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What was going on in Edward's life during Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford's teenage years?
By 1571, de Vere was a court favourite of Elizabeth's.
In May, he participated in the three-day tilt, tourney and barrier.
What is a tilt?
where although he did not win he was given chief honours in celebration of the attainment of his majority, his prowess winning admiring comments from spectators.
Did he gain power in his country?
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Did he get along with his family?
which his father had intended him to have earlier, but properties set aside to pay his father's debts would not come his way for another decade.

Question: Did his father leave him in debt?
Self-contained rewrite: Did Edward de Vere's father leave him in debt?