John de Vere, 14th Earl of Oxford

Who was John de Vere, 14th Earl of Oxford?

John de Vere, 14th Earl of Oxford was an English peer and landowner.

By inheritance he was Lord Great Chamberlain of England, and in June 1520, at the age of twenty, he attended King Henry VIII at the Field of the Cloth of Gold. The young earl was considered a wastrel: in 1523 the king orderered him to moderate his hunting, to eat and drink less, to give up late nights, and to be less extravagant in his dress. He died at the age of twenty-six.