John De LA POLE, 2nd Duke Of Suffolk^[1]

1442 - Bef 1492  (50 years)

• Name	John De LA POLE  [2, 3]
  Suffix	2nd Duke Of Suffolk
  Birth	27 Sep 1442	Lincolnshire, England   [3]
  Gender	Male
  _UID	2AB91107E88E4F21B6B695C5C788965EEA38
  Death	Bef 27 Oct 1492	Wingfield, Suffolk, England   [3]
  Burial	Wingfield Church, Suffolk, England
  Person ID	I14323	Carney Wehofer July 2025
  Last Modified	5 Jan 2006

  
  

  Father	William De LA POLE, 1st Duke Of Suffolk,   b. 16 Oct 1396, Cotton, Suffolk, England d. 2 May 1450, Murdered/Executed At Sea Off Dover, England (Age 53 years)
  Mother	Alice CHAUCER,   b. Abt 1404, Ewelme, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England d. 20 May 1475, Kingston Upon Hull, Yorkshire, England (Age ~ 71 years)
  Marriage	11 Nov 1430	3rd Husband   [4]
  Family ID	F6651	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Margaret BEAUFORT, Duchess Of Suffolk,   b. 31 May 1443, Bletsoe Castle, Bedfordshire, England d. 29 Jun 1509, Westminster, London, Middlesex, England (Age 66 years)
  Marriage	Bef 7 Feb 1449-1450	1st Husband 1St Wife - Divorced By 24 Mar 1452/3   [5, 6]
  Family ID	F3855	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2016

  
  

  Family 2	Elizabeth "Of York" PLANTAGENET,   b. 22 Apr 1444, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France d. Bef 3 May 1504, Wingfield, Suffolk, England (Age 60 years)
  Marriage	Bef Oct 1460	2ND Wife   [2, 7]
  Children	1. John De LA POLE, 1st\Last Earl Of Lincoln,   b. Abt 1462, Wingfield, Suffolk, England d. 16 Jun 1487, Battle Of Stoke, Nottinghamshire, England (Dsp &Vp) (Age ~ 25 years)
  Family ID	F7393	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2016

  
  

• Notes

  Suffolk, other creations. The [1st] Duke, for all his disgrace, had never been attainted and his son John de la Pole succeeded him in the titles. John married Elizabeth of York, sister of Edward IV and Richard III, with the result that his son the 3rd Duke (and 6th Earl) of Suffolk became after the Tudors had ascended the throne a potential claimant to it and a very real embarrassment to the new dynasty. The de la Poles, at any rate such of them who had not gone abroad or were content to live in obscurity, were accordingly liquidated by the usual Tudor methods of trumped up attainders and beheadings. [Burke's Peerage] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------- BARONY OF POLE (III) EARLDOM OF SUFFOLK (IX, 5) MARQUESSATE OF SUFFOLK (II) DUKEDOM OF SUFFOLK (II) EARLDOM OF PEMBROKE (XVI, 2) JOHN (DE LA POLE), DUKE OF SUFFOLK [1448], MARQUESS OF SUFFOLK [1444], and EARL OF SUFFOLK [1385], also, apparently, EARL OF PEMBROKE [1447] (but as that Earldom was never recognized to him or to his descendants no further notice of it is here taken), son and heir, was born 27 September 1442; joint Constable (in survivorship with his mother and father) of Wallingford Casde and Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds, 27 November 1445, (with his wife) 6 August 1461-August 1483, and sole, 21 September 1485-March 1488/9. Having married Elizabeth, 2nd daughter of Richard, DUKE OF YORK, he fought as a Yorkist at the battles of St. Albans, 17 February, Ferrybridge, 28 March, and (presumably) Towton, 29 March 1461; was Lord High Steward for the Coronation of (his wife's brother) Edward IV, 28 June 1461, from whom he received confirmation as Duke of Suffolk, 23 March 1462/3; and he bore St. Edward's sceptre at the Coronation of Elizabeth (Wydevill), the Queen Consort, 26 May 1465. In the Parliament of 1464-65 the attainder of 1387/8 was reversed, whereby the Barony of de la Pole (created according to modern doctrine by the writ of 1366) was revived and he probably (then or later) became LORD DE LA POLE. He was a Commissioner of array for cos. Oxford, Berks, Norfolk and Suffolk ex parte Edward IV, 1469-72, and was among the peers and others who swore to accept Edward, Prince of Wales, as heir to the Crown, 3 July 1471. High Steward of Oxford University, circa 1472; K.G. circa 1473; took part in Edward IV's expedition to France in 1475; Lieutenant of Ireland, 10 March-July 1478; Bearer of the sceptre with the dove at the Coronation of (his wife's brother) Richard III, 6 July 1483, and of the Queen's sceptre at that of (his wife's niece) Elizabeth (of York), the Queen Consort, 25 November 1487. He married, 1stly, between 28 January and 7 February 1449/50, his father's ward, Margaret, only daughter and heir of John (BEAUFORT), DUKE OF SOMERSET, by Margaret, widow of Sir Oliver ST. JOHN, sister and heir of John BEAUCHAMP, and daughter of John BEAUCHAMP, of Bletsoe. This child marriage was dissolved before 6 March 1452/3. He married, 2ndly, before October 1460, Elizabeth, sister of EDWARD IV and RICHARD III, 2nd daughter of Richard (PLANTAGENET), 3rd DUKE OF YORK, by Cecily, daughter of Ralph (NEVILL), 1st EARL of WESTMORLAND. He died between 29 October 1491 and 27 October 1492, being buried at Wingfield. M.I. there and at Ewelme. His widow, who was born 22 April 1444 at Rouen, died between 7 January 1502/3 and 3 May 1504, and was bur. with him. M.I. [Complete Peerage XII/1:448-50, XIV:602, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)] ------------------------------------------------------------ John de la Pole, 2nd Duke (1442-91), married Elizabeth, sister to Edward IV and Richard III and from this marriage sprang John, Earl of Lincoln (c1464-1487), Edmund, Earl of Suffolk (c1472-1513, executed by Henry VIII), two churchmen, four daughters, and Richard, on whose death at the battle of Pavia (1525) the line became extinct. (Chambers Biographical Dictionary)

  
  

• Sources

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