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Alice Chaucer, Duchess of Suffolk, LG (c. 1404–1475) was a granddaughter of the English poet Geoffrey Chaucer. Married three times, she eventually became a Lady of the Most Noble Order of the Garter , an honour granted rarely to women and marking the friendship between herself and her third husband, William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk ...
John de la Pole was born on 27 September 1442, only son and heir to William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, and Alice Chaucer, [1] the granddaughter of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer. [2] John was therefore still only a child of seven when, on 7 February 1450, he was married to the six-year-old Lady Margaret Beaufort , though the Papal dispensation ...
It is part of a tetralogy, or a four-part story, each of which is self-contained. The story features the village school, built by Alice Chaucer, granddaughter of Geoffrey Chaucer, and the adjoining village church. At the time of setting (1437) the school was newly built, one of the first brick-built buildings in the country.
By Alice (1404–1475), daughter of Thomas Chaucer of Ewelme, Oxfordshire, married 11 November 1430 John, 2nd Duke of Suffolk: 27 September 1442: 1492: Married 1st Lady Margaret Beaufort (no issue), 2nd Elizabeth of York (had issue) By Malyne de Cay, nun and mistress Jane de la Pole: c. Mar 1430: 28 February 1494: Married Thomas Stonor
By Eleanor he had a daughter, his only legitimate child: Alice Montagu, who married Richard Neville, who later succeeded his father-in-law jure uxoris as Earl of Salisbury. Secondly, to Alice Chaucer, daughter of Thomas Chaucer and granddaughter of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer.
The unrest included the destruction of properties belonging to Alice Chaucer, Duchess of Suffolk. [ 66 ] [ note 16 ] The Duke of Suffolk himself fell from power and was murdered in April 1450. [ 68 ] In the following years, Mowbray's affinity , according to Richmond, committed "one outrage after another [and] the duke was either unable to ...
The surname Chaucer is thought to have one of the following derivations: The name Chaucer frequently occurs in the early Letter Books and in French language of the time it meant "shoemaker", which meaning is also recorded in the "Glossary of Anglo-Norman and Early English Words". [1] From French 'chaussier', 'chaucier', a hosier. [2] [1]
Alice was the daughter of Thomas Chaucer, Speaker of the House of Commons, and a granddaughter of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer. As lords of the manor, she and her father had both lived at Ewelme Palace which once stood in the village. Ewelme School is said to be the oldest school building in the UK still in use as a local authority school. [8]