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Elizabeth de Vere, Countess of Oxford, formerly Elizabeth Trentham (d. c. December 1612), was the second wife of the Elizabethan courtier and poet Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford.
Introduction. The marriage of Edward de Vere and Elizabeth Trentham, sometime in 1591, had a profound effect upon the forty-one year old Earl of Oxford and on the destiny of his new countess and her family. Edward, from all the evidence, had had a torrid time over the last three years.
February 1613, of Oxford’s second wife, Elizabeth (nee Trentham) de Vere, Dowager Countess of Oxford. For a letter written on 6 January 1613 by Sir Thomas Lake (bap. 1561, d. 1630) to Sir Dudley Carleton (1574-1632), then the English ambassador in Venice, advising of the Countess’ recent death, see TNA SP 99/12, ff. 18-19:
Introduction. When the thirty-four year old Sir Thomas Trentham (1592-1628) inherited the manors of Rocester Abbey and Castle Hedingham upon the death of his father ffrancis in 1626, there seemed every likelihood that the fortunes of the Trentham family would continue to prosper.
Oxford’s widow, Elizabeth Trentham, was in possession of all the material in Oxford’s study on his death and she outlived him by nine years.
Elizabeth de Vere formerly Trentham. Born 1550 in Staffordshire, England. Ancestors. Daughter of Thomas Trentham and Jane Sneyde. Sister of Francis Trentham and Catherine (Trentham) Stanhope. Wife of Edward de Vere — married 1591 [location unknown] Mother of Henry de Vere KB. Died 1612 at about age 62 in Hackney.
She gave birth in the palace after concealing both the long affair and her entire pregnancy. The betrayal of the Queen 's trust landed them both in the Tower of London. Oxford had an immediate need: money. In the summer of 1590, he owed £11,445 to just one of his many impatient creditors: the Crown. Elizabeth Trentham was wealthy.
