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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 ...
Philippa de Roet (also known as Philippa Pan or Philippa Chaucer; c. 1346 [1] – c. 1387) was an English courtier, the sister of Katherine Swynford (third wife of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster – a son of King Edward III) and the wife of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer.
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 ...
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Many blamed Suffolk's retainers for lawlessness in East Anglia. [5] Before he left on exile, exile that would lead to his death and beheading on the ship before he cleared England he sat down and wrote a letter to his son, John, just eight years old and presumably still with his mother Alice Chaucer. The letter survives, and it helps bring a ...
The Duchess of Sussex has said she is “devastated” after the death of one of her dogs. Meghan revealed the news about her rescue beagle Guy in a post on Instagram on Monday night.
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In 1472 she was placed in the custody of her former lady-in-waiting Alice Chaucer, Duchess of Suffolk, where she remained until ransomed by Louis XI of France in 1475. [ 34 ] Final years and death