Horace Vere, 1st Baron Vere of Tilbury was an English army officer who served in the Eighty Years' War and the Thirty Years' War. A brother of Francis Vere, he was sent to the Electoral Palatinate by
Portrait by Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt
1st Baron Vere of Tilbury in Holland by Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt
The House of de Vere was an old and powerful English aristocratic family who derived their name from Ver, in Lower Normandy, France.
Horace Vere, 1st Baron Vere of Tilbury
…May 1635 (aged 69–70) Whitehall Resting place Westminster Abbey Spouse Mary Tracy Parents Geoffrey Vere (father) Elizabeth Hardekyn (mother) Relatives De Vere family Military service Conflicts Eighty Years War Siege of Steenwijk (1592) Siege of Groningen (1594) Siege of Cádiz (1596) Battle of Nieuwpoort (1600) Thirty…
Hedingham Castle – the de Vere family seat. The Norman keep is all that remains of the castle in Essex where most of the land was concentrated.
Susan de Vere, 4th Countess of Pembroke seated with her family, painted by Anthony van Dyck.
Diana Cecil, 18th Countess of Oxford, painted by William Larkin.
Diana de Vere, 1st Duchess of St Albans, her husband was the son of King Charles II of England, painted by Godfrey Kneller.