Richard de la Pole

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Richard de la Pole
Arms of Edmund de la Pole 3rd Duke of Suffolk
BornUnknown
England
Died24 February 1525
Pavia, Duchy of Milan
Known forBeing last member of the House of York to actively and openly seek the crown of England
ChildrenMarguerite de la Pole
Parent(s)John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk and Elizabeth of York, Duchess of Suffolk
RelativesRichard III of England

Richard de la Pole (died 24 February 1525) was a

Henry VIII
.

During 1514, the stage was set for a Yorkist reclaiming of England under Richard. He was in

St. Malo; however, France and England made peace just as they were about to embark and it was thus called off. Later, with Francis I as king, Richard struck up an alliance in 1523 and planned a Yorkist invasion of England once again. However, this never came to fruition, as Richard died fighting alongside Francis I at the Battle of Pavia
two years later.

Family

He was the seventh and youngest son of

George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence and Richard III of England
.

His paternal grandparents were

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
.

Alice Chaucer was a daughter of

Speaker of the English House of Commons on three occasions, Chief Butler of England
for almost thirty years, attended fifteen parliaments and was Speaker of the House five times, a feat not surpassed until the 18th century.

Thomas was a son of

courtier) and diplomat. He is sometimes called the father of English literature. Although he wrote many works, he is best remembered for his unfinished frame narrative The Canterbury Tales. He is also credited by some scholars with being the first author to demonstrate the artistic legitimacy of the vernacular English language, rather than French or Latin
.

Yorkist heir

His eldest brother

John de la Pole, 1st Earl of Lincoln (c. 1464 – 1487), may have been named heir to the throne by his maternal uncle, Richard III of England, who gave him a pension and the reversion of the estates of Lady Margaret Beaufort. However, on the accession of Henry VII following the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485, Lincoln took the oath of allegiance instead of claiming the throne for himself.[1]

In 1487, Lincoln joined the rebellion of

Tyrol and received from him a promise of substantial assistance in case of an attempt on the English crown.[1]

In consequence of these treasonable proceedings Henry VII seized Edmund's brother

Namur and in 1506 surrendered him to Henry VII, on condition that his life was spared. He remained a prisoner until 1513, when he was beheaded by Henry VIII at the time his brother Richard took up arms with the French king.[1]

Richard de la Pole joined Edmund abroad in 1504, and remained at

Ladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary.[1]

He was excluded from the general pardon proclaimed at the accession of

Lorraine, and built a palace at La Haute Pierre, near St. Simphorien.[1]

While at Metz, he was visited by

Cardinal Thomas Wolsey
and Henry VIII, never returned to England.

Richard de la Pole had numerous interviews with King

John Stewart, 2nd Duke of Albany, the Scottish regent, to arrange an invasion of England, which was never carried out.[1]

He was with Francis I at the Battle of Pavia on 24 February 1525, where he was killed[2] and was buried in the basilica San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro.[3] In a picture of the battle, preserved at the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, his lifeless body is represented in the thick of the combat with the inscription Le Duc de Susfoc dit Blance Rose (The Duke of Suffolk, known as White Rose).

Children

Richard de la Pole was never known to have married, but he is known to have had a daughter by a mistress.[4] It has been suggested that she may have been Marie of Sicily.[5]

  • Queen of Navarre.[5] On 21 May 1539, Marguerite de la Pole signed a marriage contract to Sibeud de Tivoley, seigneur de Brenieu, in the presence of the Queen and her kinsman Gabriel, Marquis of Saluzzo.[5] Tivoley was esquire ordinaire of Queen Eleanore of Austria.[5] Tivoley was still living in 1547, but died before 1568.[5]

Marguerite and her husband had three sons and five daughters:[5]

Marguerite de la Pole's will was dated 1599.[5]

Ancestors

Further reading

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Chisholm 1911.
  2. ^ R.J.Knecht, Francis I, (Cambridge University Press, 1982), 169–170.
  3. ISBN 978-88-205-1136-4
    .
  4. ^ perhaps the wife of a goldsmith during his stay in Metz see F. des Robert:Un pensionnaire des Rois de France à Metz , published at Nancy in 1878
  5. ^
    ISBN 978-1461045137
    .

Sources
Titles in pretence
Preceded by — TITULAR —
Lord of Ireland

Yorkist claimant
1513–1525
Reason for succession failure:
Dynasty deposed by Tudors 		Extinction of Yorkist claim
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