Guy de vere pronunciation
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John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford
English noble and soldier (1442–1513)
John de Vere, 13th Earl of OxfordKG KB (8 September 1442 – 10 March 1513), the second son of John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford, and Elizabeth Howard, a first cousin of John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk (2nd creation), was one of the principal Lancastrian commanders during the English Wars of the Roses.
He was the principal commander of King Henry VII's army at the Battle of Bosworth Field, and again led Henry's troops to victory at the Battle of Stoke Field two years later. He became one of the great men of the King's regime.
Early life
John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, was born on 8 September 1442, the second son of John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford (23 April 1408 – 26 February 1462), and his wife Elizabeth Howard (c. 1410–1474), the daughter of Sir John Howard and Joan Walton.
In February 1462 the 12th Earl, his eldest son, Aubrey de Vere, and Sir Thomas Tuddenham, the 12th Earl's former political opponent in Norfolk and now a fellow Lancastrian loyalist, were convicted of high t
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De Vere Poem 1: The Labouring Man That Tills the Fertile Soil
See the Introduction to this presentation of early poems by Edward de Vere. Click here to go to the next poem in the series. All the poems, and a printable pdf version of the entire presentation, may also be accessed from the Introduction. See also Note on Sources, Titles, and Presentation of Parallels, Key to Abbreviations, and Bibliography of Works Cited.
Poem No. 1: “The Labouring Man That Tills the Fertile Soil”
1 The labouring man that tills the fertile soil
2 And reaps the harvest fruit hath not indeed
3 The gain, but pain, and if for all his toil
4 He gets the straw, the Lord will have the seed.
5 The Manchet fine falls not unto his share,
6 On coarsest cheat his hungry stomach feeds.
7 The Landlord doth possess the finest fare;
8 He pulls the flowers, the other plucks but weeds.
9 The mason poor, that builds the Lordly halls,
10 Dwells not in them, they are for high degree;
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Shakespeare by Another Name: The Life of Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, the Man Who Was Shakespeare
==Further edit 10/9/22: It is my understanding that the author of this book has transitioned and identifies as Margo Anderson. I have corrected the dead-naming of the author but nothing else==
Anderson devotes Appendix C towards general questions as to new plays supposedly appearing after 1604. The Tempest is very often cited, she states as evidence against de Vere's candidacy, and quite rightly so. De Vere could not have written the plays of Shakespeare, it is indeed "the silver bullet" that Anderson mocks. Since there is no reason to suppose that The Tempest was written by anyone other than the individual who also wrote the other works of Shakespeare, that means that if Oxford did not write The Tempest, then he did not
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