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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 ...
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
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 ...
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).
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.
Alice Chaucer, Duchess of Suffolk; Joan Chaworth; Elizabeth Cheney (1422–1473) Alice Cherleton, Baroness Cherleton; Isabel Neville, Duchess of Clarence; Margaret Holland, Duchess of Clarence; Marjory Cobbe; Joyce Culpeper
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]
His paternal grandparents were William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk and Alice Chaucer. Suffolk was an important English soldier and commander in the Hundred Years' War, and later Lord Chamberlain of England. He also appears prominently in William Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part 1 and Henry VI, Part 2.