Title:

Earl

First Name:

John

Last Name:

de Vere

Memorial Type:

Memorial - no longer extant tomb effigy

Does the monument still exist?

No

Installation Date:

Contemporary (pre-1500)

Inscription:

Memorial inscription, recorded in 1571 (British Library, Cotton Vespasian B. XV), 'Here lieth the noble Lord John Veer Erle of Oxford and viscount Bulbek which for his true minde and suer allegians due unto King Henry 6th under King Ed 4th suffred death at the towre the 26 February in the year of Christes incarnation 1461 [i.e. 1462]

Allegiance:

Lancastrian

Memorial Notes:

The earl was initially buried at the Austin Friars in London, near his place of execution, but was reburied in the family mausoleum in Earls Colne in 1492 by his son. See J. Ross, 'John de Vere, Thirteenth Earl of Oxford, 1442-1513' (Woodbridge, 2011), pp. 206-7.