House of de Vere

de Vere family coat of arms with a mullet in the first quarter of the shield
Castle Hedingham – 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.[1]
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.
Diana Kirke de Vere, 20th Countess of Oxford, painted by Peter Lely.

The House of de Vere was an old and powerful English aristocratic family who derived their name from Ver (department Manche, canton Gavray), in Lower Normandy, France.[2]

  1. ^ "Museum number 1866,1114.570". britishmuseum.org/.
  2. ^ L. C. Loyd, The Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Families (Leeds: 1951), 110.