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WOW2: PART ONE - December's Trailblazing Women and Events in Our History – 12-1 through 12-6 [1]
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Date: 2022-12-03
December 5, 1556 – Anne Cecil de Vere born, Countess of Oxford; her father was William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, who was chief adviser to Queen Elizabeth I, and her mother was Mildred Cooke, Lady Burghley, who was a translator of Greek and Latin. Lady Burghley was responsible for the education of her children, so Anne had a much better education than most of the girls of her time; in addition to Greek and Latin, her studies included philosophy, science, literature, and music. She married Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, at the age of 15, in 1571, but continued to reside with her parents. When she gave birth to her first child, a daughter named Elizabeth, in 1575, her husband was touring the continent. When he returned, he accused her of adultery, and declared the child wasn’t his, possibly because Burghley had failed to save his cousin, Thomas Howard, from execution for Howard’s part in the Ridolfi plot to assassinate the Queen, and put Mary, Queen of Scots, on the English throne. In 1576, de Vere separated from Anne, after rumors spread of his accusations against her. He refused to allow her to be present at court, in spite of pressure from her powerful father. While they were separated, he began an affair with Anne Vavasour, the Queen’s Lady of the Bedchamber, who gave birth to his illegitimate son in 1581. This scandal caused the Queen to send both of them to the Tower of London, but de Vere was soon released, and Anne wrote to him, beginning a correspondence which led to their reconciliation, and his acknowledging paternity of their daughter. She gave birth to four more children, but two of them died in infancy, including her only son. Anne herself died at age 31, of unknown causes, in 1588. Her father was so stricken with grief at her death he was temporarily unable to carry out his ministerial duties in the Privy Council. Her three surviving daughters were raised in Burghley’s household, and later married into the peerage. Three years after her death, Edward de Vere married Elizabeth Trentham.
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