Born in Castle Hedingham, Essex, England
Ancestors 
Daughter of John de Vere
and Elizabeth (Trussell) de Vere
Sister of
Elizabeth (de Vere) Darcy, John de Vere KB, Aubrey de Vere, Robert de Vere, Anne (de Vere) Sheffield and Geoffrey Vere
Wife of
Henry Howard KG
— married
1533 in London, Middlesex, England
Wife of
Edward Steyning
— married
after 19 Jan 1547 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Mother of
Jane (Howard) Neville, Catherine (Howard) Berkeley, Thomas Howard KG, Henry Howard, Margaret (Howard) Scrope and Mary Steyning
Died
at about age 61
in Earl Soham, Suffolk, England
Profile last modified
| Created 9 Jul 2011
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Biography
Frances De Vere was a member of the aristocracy in British Isles.
Lady Frances de Vere was born in 1516. She was the daughter of John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford and Elizabeth Trussell.[1] She married Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, son of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk and Lady Elizabeth Stafford, in 1532. She died on 30 June 1577.
From 1532, her married name became Howard.
Sources
- ↑ G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, page 138.
- Frances' peerage record is on thepeerage.com
- Frances' Wikipedia Page
Acknowledgements
- WikiTree profile De Vere-152 created through the import of Rhodes 2011_2011-07-09_01_01.ged on Jul 9, 2011 by Tom Rhodes.
- WikiTree profile Devere-54 created through the import of Lea and Randol and Ely and Si.ged on May 31, 2011 by Maude Randol.
- WikiTree profile DeVere-62 created through the import of Dulaney, Kelley Family Tree.ged on Aug 1, 2011 by Christina Marshall.
- WikiTree profile DeVere-71 created through the import of Gedcom ONE for WikiTree.ged on Aug 7, 2011 by Dolores M. Pringle Pringle.
- Thank you to Lucy Barnard for creating WikiTree profile De Vere-259 through the import of Telfar family tree.ged on Aug 9, 2013.
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Some later generations (particularly Geoffrey's line I think) dropped the "de", but Frances was definitely "de Vere" rather than just "Vere" (I'm not even sure why the "aka Vere" is there, asI haven't seen her called just "Vere" anywhere.)