Paternal Family Tree: Vere
In 1565 Horace de Vere 1st Baron Vere was born to Geoffrey Vere and Elizabeth Hardkyn.
Brief Lives: Charles Danvers 1568 1601. [711]Sir Charles Danvers [aged 33] was beheaded on Tower-hill [Map] with Robert, earle of Essex [aged 35], February the 6th, 1600[712]. I find in the register of the Tower chapell [Map] only the sepulture of Robert, earl of Essex, that yeare; wherfore I am induced to beleeve that his body was carryed to Dantesey[CX] in Wilts to lye with his ancestors. Vide Stowe's Chronicle, where is a full account of his and the earle's deportment at their death on the scaffold.
With all their faylings, Wilts cannot shew two such[713] brothers.
His familiar acquaintance were...[714], earl of Oxon [aged 50]; Sir Francis [aged 40] and Sir Horace Vere [aged 36]; Sir Walter Ralegh [aged 47], etc.-the heroes of those times.
Quaere my lady viscountesse Purbec and also the lord Norris for an account of the behaviour and advice of Sir Charles Danvers in the businesse of the earl of Essex, which advice had the earle followed he had saved his life.
[715]Of Sir Charles Danvers, from my lady viscountesse Purbec:-Sir Charles Danvers advised the earle of Essex, either to treat with the queen-hostages..., whom Sir Ferdinando Gorges [aged 36] did let goe; or to make his way through the gate at Essex house, and then to hast away to Highgate, and so to Northumberland (the earl of Northumberland maried his mother's [aged 51] sister), and from thence to the king of Scots, and there they might make their peace; if not, the queen was old and could not live long. But the earle followed not his advice, and so they both lost their heads on Tower-hill.
Note 711. MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 25v.
Note 712. i.e. 1600/1.
Note 713. Dupl. with 'shew the like two brothers,' scil. as Sir Charles Danvers and his brother Henry, earl of Danby.
Note 714. Edward Vere, seventeenth earl of Oxford.
[CX] In MS. Aubr. 3, fol. 46, Aubrey writes, in reference to burials at Dantesey, 'quaere, if Sir Charles Danvers that was beheaded?-He was buryed in the Tower chapell.' Aubrey's description of the burial-place of the Danvers family (MS. Aubr. 3, fol. 46), with the inscriptions, is printed in J. E. Jackson's Aubrey's Wiltshire Collections, pp. 223-225; the pedigree of Danvers is there given at p. 216.
In October 1607 Horace de Vere 1st Baron Vere [aged 42] and Mary Tracy Baroness Spencer Tilbury [aged 26] were married.
Around 1608 [his daughter] Mary Vere Countess of Westmoreland was born to Horace de Vere 1st Baron Vere [aged 43] and [his wife] Mary Tracy Baroness Spencer Tilbury [aged 27]. She married (1) before 1628 Roger Townshend 1st Baronet and had issue (2) 21st June 1638 Mildmay Fane 2nd Earl of Westmoreland, son of Francis Fane 1st Earl of Westmoreland and Mary Mildmay Countess of Westmoreland, and had issue.
In 1613 [his daughter] Catherine Vere Baroness Poulett was born to Horace de Vere 1st Baron Vere [aged 48] and [his wife] Mary Tracy Baroness Spencer Tilbury [aged 32]. She married (1) 1648 Oliver St John, son of John St John 1st Baronet and Anne Leighton, and had issue (2) 1648 John Paulett 2nd Baron Paulett, son of John Paulett 1st Baron Paulett and Elizabeth Ken Baroness Poulett, and had issue.
Letters of the Court of James I 1618. 28th August 1618. Hague. Sir Dudley Carleton [aged 45] to John Chamberlain [aged 65].
It was Tuesday night, by reason of a strong contrary wind, before we arrived at this place; and betwixt this and Rotterdam (where I was met by Sir Horace Vere [aged 53] and much good company) we were overtaken with the most terrible tempest of thunder, lightning, and rain, that any man of us had ever met with, so as it was a common speech amongst us that it must needs prognosticate somewhat; which fell out the day following, our great man, Monsieur Barnevelt, with two of his chief instruments, Hogerbots and Grotius, the one pensioner at Leyden, the other of Rotterdam, being then arrested prisoners in the Prince of Orange's lodgings by order of the States-General, where they remained two days, until the lodgings in the court, where the Amirante of Arragon lay last, were prepared for them. I account it in some regard ill luck to come à la vieille of such a feast; at which though there are many make good cheer, (and I may well say the most in this country) yet there being some mal diners, they lay no small blame upon me, and so speed it by public voice, as if I had given fire to this mine by certain intercepted letters, which I should have brought with me out of England. Their apprehension proceeded chiefly of certain difficulties and traverses they sought to cast in the way of the national Synod, after they had offered themselves at the Prince of Orange's return from Utrecht to concur with the States-General and his excellency; which they perceiving, and that this business would prove Penelope's web, unless these men were laid holden, not only took the resolution for them, but for one Leyden-burgh, the secretary of Utrecht, who had the same authority in that province, as Barnevelt, in Holland, and was there held on the day after they were taken. Vander Mile, who married Barnevelt's daughter, was with me at the instant that his father was taken, and went from me to the council, not knowing any thing of the matter until the news was publicly sent to the council, by the States-General; which may seem very strange, that he, his father, and the rest of that party, who had the chief managing of the affairs, should have so small knowledge or apprehension of what hung over their heads; this course having been almost a year in speech, and it was known to forty in this town the night before it was put in execution.
In 1619 [his daughter] Susana de Vere was born to Horace de Vere 1st Baron Vere [aged 54] and [his wife] Mary Tracy Baroness Spencer Tilbury [aged 38]. She died aged four in 1623.
Autobiography Simon D'Ewes. 14th December 1622. The first part of the holidays, and some part of the same month foregoing, (my father, with the rest of his family, taking his journey into Surrey, to my brother Elliot's, on Saturday, the 14th day of the same month,) I was out of commons, into which I came not again, till the beginning of the next month; intending, before I enter into the discourse thereof, to set down a short abstract of the further prevailing of the bloody Emperor, the second Ferdinand, and of the Popish armies in Germany, this summer past until the end of December. Here Count Mansfield [aged 42] and Christian Duke of Brunswick [aged 23] were severally profligated and quite overthrown by Tilly and Corduba: whilst, in the mean season, the city itself of Heidelburg and the castle came into the power of the enemy; the city being first taken by assault on the 6th (16th) day of September, which brought with it innumerable rapes, murders, and cruelties; and the castle, by composition, the 10th (20th) of the same month following. Here was a world of wealth gotten by the bloody soldier, besides that inestimable library of ancient manuscripts aod other rarities, which was most of it carried away to Rome; the loss of it to the Protestant party being irreparable. From Heidelborg, Tilly removed with his army to that inexpugnable [invicible] fort of Manheim, being part also of the Prince Palatine's dominions; and, after some six weeks' siege, took it by composition. Sir Horace Vere [aged 57], Knt., a great and ancient soldier and very nobly extracted, giving it up by reason he and the garrison were by that time reduced to great extremity, without all hope of relief from England or Germany.
In 1623 [his daughter] Susana de Vere [aged 4] died.
Around July 1625 Horace de Vere 1st Baron Vere [aged 60] was created 1st Baron Vere of Tilbury. [his wife] Mary Tracy Baroness Spencer Tilbury [aged 44] by marriage Baroness Vere of Tilbury.
On 4th September 1626 [his son-in-law] John Holles 2nd Earl de Clare [aged 31] and [his daughter] Elizabeth Vere Countess Clare were married. She by marriage Countess Clare. He the son of John Holles 1st Earl de Clare [aged 62] and Anne Stanhope Countess de Clare [aged 50]. They were second cousin once removed.
Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke
Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson.
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Before 1628 [his son-in-law] Roger Townshend 1st Baronet [aged 31] and [his daughter] Mary Vere Countess of Westmoreland [aged 19] were married. She by marriage Lady Townshend.
In 1629 Michiel Janszoon van Mierevelt [aged 62]. Portrait of Horace de Vere 1st Baron Vere [aged 64].
On 2nd May 1635 Horace de Vere 1st Baron Vere [aged 70] died. Baron Vere of Tilbury extinct.
On 8th May 1635 Horace de Vere 1st Baron Vere [deceased] was buried at Westminster Abbey [Map].
In 1671 [his former wife] Mary Tracy Baroness Spencer Tilbury [aged 90] died.
[his daughter] Dorothy Vere was born to Horace de Vere 1st Baron Vere and Mary Tracy Baroness Spencer Tilbury. She married John Wolstenholme.
[his daughter] Anne Vere Lady Fairfax was born to Horace de Vere 1st Baron Vere and Mary Tracy Baroness Spencer Tilbury. She married her second cousin twice removed Thomas Fairfax 3rd Lord Fairfax and had issue.
[his father] Geoffrey Vere and [his mother] Elizabeth Hardkyn were married. He the son of [his grandfather] John de Vere 15th Earl of Oxford and [his grandmother] Elizabeth Trussell Countess of Oxford.
[his daughter] Elizabeth Vere Countess Clare was born to Horace de Vere 1st Baron Vere and Mary Tracy Baroness Spencer Tilbury. She married 4th September 1626 her second cousin once removed John Holles 2nd Earl de Clare, son of John Holles 1st Earl de Clare and Anne Stanhope Countess de Clare, and had issue.
Kings Wessex: Great x 15 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 14 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 18 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 15 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings England: Great x 7 Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 10 Grand Son of King William I of Scotland
Kings France: Great x 16 Grand Son of Hugh I King of the Franks
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 19 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Kings Spain: Great x 11 Grand Son of Alfonso VII King Castile VII King Leon
Great x 4 Grandfather: Aubrey de Vere 10th Earl of Oxford 
5 x Great Grandson of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard de Vere 11th Earl of Oxford 5 x Great Grandson of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Alice Fitzwalter Countess of Oxford 
4 x Great Granddaughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Robert de Vere 6 x Great Grandson of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Alice Sergeaux Countess Oxford
Great x 1 Grandfather: John de Vere 4 x Great Grandson of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Edward Courtenay Great Grandson of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Hugh Courtenay 2 x Great Grandson of King Edward I of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Joan Courtenay 3 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward I of England
Grandfather: John de Vere 15th Earl of Oxford 5 x Great Grandson of King Edward I of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Alice Colbroke
father: Geoffrey Vere 6 x Great Grandson of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Trussell
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Trussell
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margery Ludlow
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Trussell
Great x 1 Grandfather: Edward Trussell
Grandmother: Elizabeth Trussell Countess of Oxford 8 x Great Granddaughter of King William I of Scotland
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Donne
Great x 1 Grandmother: Margaret Donne 7 x Great Granddaughter of King William I of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Ralph Hastings 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Leonard Hastings 5 x Great Grandson of King William I of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Maud Sutton 
4 x Great Granddaughter of King William I of Scotland
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Hastings 6 x Great Granddaughter of King William I of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Camoys 1st Baron Camoys 7 x Great Grandson of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Alice Camoys 8 x Great Granddaughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Louches Baroness Camoys
Horace de Vere 1st Baron Vere 7 x Great Grandson of King Edward I of England
mother: Elizabeth Hardkyn