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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 ...
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.
Suffolk was married on 11 November 1430 (date of licence), to (as her third husband) Alice Chaucer (1404–1475), daughter of Thomas Chaucer of Ewelme, Oxfordshire, and granddaughter of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer and his wife, Philippa Roet.
John was the eldest son of William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk and Alice Chaucer. [2] His maternal grandparents were Thomas Chaucer and Maud Burghersh. [3] Her father-in-law had served as the principal power behind the throne for Henry VI of England from 1447 to 1450. [4]
Thomas Montagu, 4th Earl of Salisbury (c. 1388–1428), who married firstly Eleanor Holland, a daughter of Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent (half-brother of King Richard II) by his wife Alice FitzAlan) and secondly Alice Chaucer by whom he had no issue. [2] [7] By his first wife he had issue: [2]
Both girls became wards of Anne's maternal step-great-grandmother, Alice Chaucer (widow of Thomas Montagu, 4th Earl of Salisbury, and a lady-in-waiting to Queen Margaret of Anjou) and William de la Pole, shortly to be Duke of Suffolk, who intended Anne to marry his own heir, [4] John de la Pole (1442–1492).
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 ...