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Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford

1550 - 1604

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Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (; 12 April 1550 – 24 June 1604), was an English peer and courtier of the Elizabethan era. Oxford was heir to the second oldest earldom in the kingdom, a court favourite for a time, a sought-after patron of the arts, and noted by his contemporaries as a lyric poet and court playwright, but his volatile temperament precluded him from attaining any courtly or governmental responsibility and contributed to the dissipation of his estate. Edward de Vere was the only son of John de Vere, 16th Earl of Oxford, and Margery Golding. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford has received more than 1,102,246 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford is the 3,320th most popular politician (down from 2,104th in 2019), the 708th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 483rd in 2019) and the 122nd most popular British Politician.

Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford is most famous for being the true author of Shakespeare's plays.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford ranks 3,320 out of 19,576Before him are John Hyrcanus, Charles III, Prince of Monaco, Yasuhiro Nakasone, Oskar Potiorek, Hissène Habré, and Ernst Gideon von Laudon. After him are Istakhri, Ferdinand, Duke of Parma, Drypetis, Frederick I, Elector of Saxony, Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, and Boris Tadić.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1550, Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford ranks 10Before him are Willem Barentsz, Charles IX of Sweden, Henry I, Duke of Guise, Camillus de Lellis, Jang-geum, and John Davis. After him are Stanislaus Kostka, Karin Månsdotter, Giorgio Basta, Do-Aklin, Jacobus Gallus, and Damat Ibrahim Pasha. Among people deceased in 1604, Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford ranks 1After him are Catherine de Bourbon, Fausto Sozzini, Claudio Merulo, Peter Ernst I von Mansfeld-Vorderort, John I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Christine of Hesse, Hamida Banu Begum, Ercole, Lord of Monaco, Isabella Andreini, Otto Henry, Count Palatine of Sulzbach, and Francesco Barozzi.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford ranks 708 out of 8,785Before him are William Webb Ellis (1806), Julian Huxley (1887), Chris Rea (1951), Ann Radcliffe (1764), John Surtees (1934), and Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex (1964). After him are Oliver Reed (1938), John Gurdon (1933), Offa of Mercia (800), John Franklin (1786), John Cale (1942), and James Macpherson (1736).

Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford ranks 122Before him are Prince George, Duke of Kent (1902), John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer (1924), Gladwyn Jebb (1900), James Francis Edward Stuart (1688), Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon (1930), and George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham (1592). After him are Offa of Mercia (800), James Macpherson (1736), H. H. Asquith (1852), Margaret of York (1446), Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury (1473), and Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (1853).