On the 10th of March 1513 occurred the death of John de Vere, the 13th Earl of Oxford.
Oxford was at Barnet with Richard Neville in 1471, he escaped to France, but was back in the country by 1473 seizing St Micheal's Mount in Cornwall. Following his surrender of the island, he fled once again to France but returned 'with a vengeance' as the saying goes after joining Henry Tudor's cause.
He was an important player in Henry's taking of the throne at Bosworth in 1485 and the defence of it at Stoke a year later, he was at the head of the forces against the Cornish Rising at Blackheath in 1497.
He died in his seventies at Hedingham Castle, one of the few men to die of ill health and not on the Wars of the Roses battlefields.
He was an important player in Henry's taking of the throne at Bosworth in 1485 and the defence of it at Stoke a year later, he was at the head of the forces against the Cornish Rising at Blackheath in 1497.
He died in his seventies at Hedingham Castle, one of the few men to die of ill health and not on the Wars of the Roses battlefields.
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