Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford

Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford was an English lord who was also a poet and playwright. Some people think that Oxford was the actual person who wrote Shakespeare’s plays and not William Shakespeare.

Edward De Vere, 17th Earl Of Oxford Media

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  The surviving keep of Hedingham Castle, the de Vere family seat since the Norman Conquest

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  William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, the Queen's Secretary of State and de Vere's father-in-law, c. 1571.

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  Coat of Arms of Edward de Vere from George Baker's The composition or making of the moste excellent and pretious oil called oleum magistrale (1574)

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  The Royal Palace of Whitehall where the Earl of Oxford married Anne Cecil, as it appeared about 100 years later

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  Queen Elizabeth I. The so-called Phoenix Portrait, c. 1575

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  Anne Vavasour, maid of honour to Elizabeth I, mother of de Vere's illegitimate son

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  His daughter Elizabeth de Vere, who married William Stanley, the 6th Earl of Derby, in January 1594/1595, at the Royal Court at Greenwich

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  Eight poems by the Earl of Oxford were published in The Paradise of Dainty Devises (1576)

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  Rhys Ifans played Edward de Vere in the 2011 film Anonymous