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The story of the de la Pole family – from ‘rags to rags’ over 6 generations between 1290 and 1525, is evidence that there were ways to escape the rigidity of medieval society. Their history is also evidence of the dangerous times in which they lived, and the curse of the blood of York. Not until the last of them was dead could the Tudors ...
- They Were Descendants of Geoffrey Chaucer
- Their Dukedom Was Not Coupled to Royal Blood
- The Family Were Chronically in Debt
- The Family Attracted Trouble For Generations
- The Family Were Favourites of Henry VII at The Beginning of His Reign
- They Did Not Like Taking Orders
- They Had A Long Standing Feud with The Paston Family
- They Were No Warriors
- They Were Big Supporters of Education
- They Had An Unusual Number of Clergy in Their Family
John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk, and his children were the only known descendants of the famous poet Geoffrey Chaucer. John’s mother Alice was the poet’s granddaughter through her father Thomas Chaucer.
Though John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln, and his siblings had royal blood, as their mother Elizabeth, Duchess of Suffolk, was the sister of King Edward IV and King Richard III, they were the first in the family to be blood related to the royal family. In fact, by the standards of the day, the de la Pole family was uncommonly low-born for members of...
Holding a title was, during the Middle Ages, not just a privilege. It also came with duties and obligations. A title had to be supported by the proper show of dignity and had to support many people. Naturally, this cost a lot of money, which meant that a dukedom usually came with large amounts of lands and income. However, when William de la Pole d...
By the time John de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk, inherited his title, the De La Pole family already had a long history of being dogged by difficulties and trouble. John’s great-grandfather Michael de la Pole, 1st Earl of Suffolk, was declared a traitor and died in exile in France. His son, Michael, worked himself up in Richard II’s favour and was gran...
Despite the fact the de la Pole family had been very close to Richard III, with John Duke of Suffolk being his brother-in-law and John Earl of Lincoln not only his nephew but his heir presumptive at the time of his death, the family originally did very well under Henry VII. The new king did not seek to punish them as supporters of the king he had u...
Though their approach to politics was often different, John, Duke of Suffolk and John, Earl of Lincoln shared one characteristic: neither of them were fond of taking orders. Suffolk signalled his unwillingness to do as told in a rather subtle way, always offering good excuses as to why he did not follow orders. These excuses were always truthful an...
His feud with his Oxfordshire neighbour John Paston and his family might be John, Duke of Suffolk’s greatest claim to fame, more so than even his royal relations. This feud spanned several decades and varied in intensity, from court cases to outright attacks on each other’s property. It also spanned generations, having been started by Suffolk’s fat...
William de la Pole was noted to be a good and fierce warrior when he was a young man, spending over a decade fighting for Henry V and Henry VI during the Hundred Years War. In his later years, however, he was one of the strongest supporters of peace between England and France, maybe because of the many losses his family suffered during these campai...
Although of William de la Pole, Earl and later Duke of Suffolk’s education, nothing is known, it is known that both he and his wife were big supporters of education, having a school built close to Alice’s ancestral manor of Ewelme. Alice sponsored poets, and William is known to have written several poems himself, some of which were written for Alic...
Of John, Duke of Suffolk’s children, 10 survived childhood. Of these, 4 would take vows and enter the church – Anne, Humphrey, Geoffrey and Edward. This was an unusually high number of clergy for a single family. By comparison, only their siblings got married during their parents’ lifetime, and one was engaged, though the marriage fell through afte...
John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk (27 September 1442 - October 1492) William de la Pole was the eldest son of the first Duke of Suffolk and Alice Chaucer, on 7 February 1450, at the age of nine, he was married to the seven-year-old Lady Margaret Beaufort, the daughter of Henry VI's cousin John Beaufort, Earl of Somerset, their marriage ...
Oct 12, 2024 · Hundred Years’ War. William de la Pole, 1st duke of Suffolk (born October 16, 1396, Cotton, Suffolk, England—died May 2, 1450, near Dover, Kent) was an English military commander and statesman who from 1443 to 1450 dominated the government of the weak king Henry VI (ruled 1422–61 and 1470–71). He was popularly, although probably ...
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Edmund de la Pole, 3rd Duke of Suffolk, 6th Earl of Suffolk, KG (c. 1471 – 30 April 1513), Duke of Suffolk, was an English nobleman and soldier.The son of John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk and his wife Elizabeth of York, he was through his mother the nephew of the Yorkist kings of England Edward IV and Richard III and the cousin of Edward V and Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York (the ...
John de la Pole was created Earl of Lincoln on 13th March 1467. John de la Pole was son of John de la Pole, 2 nd Duke of Suffolk and King Edward IV and Richard IIIs sister, Elizabeth of York. His relationship to the Yorkist kings, coupled with the attainder of George, Duke of Clarence led to him being the heir designate following the death of ...
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Richard III of England. Richard de la Pole (died 24 February 1525) was a pretender to the English crown. Commonly nicknamed "White Rose", he was the last Yorkist claimant to actively and openly seek the crown of England. He lived in exile after many of his relatives were executed, becoming allied with Louis XII of France in the War of the ...
