Conclusion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2012
Summary
This great honour, this high and noble dignity, hath continued ever since in the remarkable surname of de Vere, by so many ages, descents and generations, as no other kingdom can produce such a peer in one and the self same name and title.
For where is BOHUN? Where's MOWBRAY? Where's MORTIMER? Nay, which is more, and most of all, where is PLANTAGENET? They are entombed in the urns and sepulchres of mortality.
And yet let the name and dignity of de Vere stand so long as it pleaseth God.
John de Vere, thirteenth earl of Oxford, died at nine in the evening on 10 March 1513 at his ancestral home of Castle Hedingham at the age of seventy-one. A detailed account of his funeral survives. On 22 April the corpse ‘was born out of his chappelle by vi gentlimene and so layd in a cheaire well covered with black velvet and garneshed with scocheones of his arms and of his mariages and viii baner roles of his descent’, and taken to the parish church at Hedingham accompanied by the:
parson and mynesteres of the chorche and the deane of my Lord’s chappelle with all the mynesteres of the same and then nexte a gentliman beringe the standarde afore him with the stuarde, tresorer and comptrolere, all the esquirers, gentlimene and all other offyceres of the house aftere them, a gentlimane bearinge the healme and creste, then the coate of armes borne by Richeamont herold, then a gentilman bering my Lord’s banor, then the executors, then Clarenshouxe Kyng of Armes, then the chaire and iiii baneres of Saints borne by iiii gentilmene at the iiii corneres of the chayre and the vi gentleman that weare assistaunts to the corse rode all the waye by the chaire, and then next after the chaire my yong Lorde of Oxeford as cheefe mornere by him selfe then the other vi morneres ii and ii, then alle the knights and esquires of the contre nexte to them, all the yeomen of the contre and all the lords and gentlemens servants.
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- John de Vere, Thirteenth Earl of Oxford (1442–1513)'The Foremost Man of the Kingdom', pp. 223 - 227Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2011