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Sir William de la Pole (1478 – sometime between October and November 1539), [1] was an English nobleman, and Knight of Wingfield Castle in Wingfield, Suffolk. He was the son of John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk (1442–1492) and Elizabeth Plantagenet (Elizabeth of York, Duchess of Suffolk) (1444–1504), a sister of Edward IV and Richard III .
William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk KG (16 October 1396 – 2 May 1450), nicknamed Jackanapes, was an English magnate, statesman and military commander during the Hundred Years' War. He became a favourite of Henry VI of England , and consequently a leading figure in the English government where he became associated with many of the royal ...
7 February – John de la Pole marries Lady Margaret Beaufort. 15 April – Hundred Years' War: French defeat the English at the Battle of Formigny. [1] 2 May – execution of William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, while he is being sent into exile, being blamed for English losses in the Hundred Years' War. [1]
Sir William de la Pole. A nephew of Edward IV and thus potential Yorkist claimant to the throne, he was incarcerated at the Tower for 37 years (1502–1539) for allegedly plotting against Henry VII, thus becoming the longest-held prisoner. Alice Tankerville (also Tankerfelde). The only woman who escaped the Tower of London on March 23, 1534.
Edmund de la Pole, 6th Earl of Suffolk: 30 April 1513 Leading Yorkist claimant to the throne. Extradited to England by Philip the Handsome and executed for treason at Tower Hill. Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham: 17 May 1521 Member of the Henry VIII's Privy Council and descendant of the Plantagenet Dynasty. Executed for alleged treason ...
William de la Pole (1450) – beheaded at sea, possibly by order of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York; James Fiennes, 1st Baron Saye and Sele (1450) – beheaded in London by rebels led by Jack Cade; James Tuchet, 5th Baron Audley (1459) – executed after Battle of Blore Heath for being a Lancastrian
Arms of De la Pole: Azure, a fess between three leopard's faces or. Michael de la Pole, 1st Earl of Suffolk (1330–1389), Lord Chancellor under Richard II, was stripped of his titles by the Merciless Parliament in 1388; Michael de la Pole, 2nd Earl of Suffolk (1367–1415), son of the 1st Earl, obtained restoration to his father's title in ...
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 ...