Michael de la Pole

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Michael de la Pole, 2nd Earl of Suffolk (1367 – 17 September 1415), an English nobleman, supported Henry IV (reigned 1399-1413) against Richard II (reigned 1377-1399). He died during the Siege of Harfleur in 1415. He was a son of Michael de la Pole, 1st Earl of Suffolk and Katherine Wingfield, daughter of Sir John Wingfield.

His father fled abroad amid accusations of treason during the Merciless Parliament in 1388, forfeiting the title of Earl of Suffolk and the family estates. Over the next decade the younger Michael de la Pole made vigorous attempts to recover these lands, and obtained most of them piecemeal between 1389 and 1392, following his father's death. However, his close association with the Lords Appellant, particularly the Earl of Warwick and the Duke of Gloucester prejudiced Richard II against him. He finally obtained the restoration of the earldom in January 1398.

While he obeyed the summons of the Duke of York to defend the kingdom against Henry Bolingbroke in July 1399, Suffolk did not object to the disbandment of York's army and consented to the deposition of Richard II in the summer of 1399. While the first Parliament of Henry IV technically upheld the forfeitures of the Merciless Parliament, Henry IV immediately restored de la Pole's estates and title in recognition of his support. However, he would spend the remainder of his life trying to obtain possession of the remaining estates which had not been restored.

He played a relatively small role in national politics, although he regularly attended Parliament. He took part in the campaign in Scotland in 1400, in naval operations around 1405, and served as the senior English diplomat at the Council of Pisa (1409). Suffolk also acted as a lieutenant of the Duke of Clarence during his campaign of 1412–1413. However, he devoted most of his energies to re-establishing de la Pole influence in East Anglia. He took the role of a justice of the peace in Norfolk and Suffolk from 1399, and assembled a considerable following among the local gentry. He completed his father's building plans at Wingfield, Suffolk and enlarged the local church.

Suffolk brought 40 men-at-arms and 120 archers with him on the 1415 campaign of Henry V in France. He died of dysentery at Harfleur, and was succeeded by his eldest son Michael, who later died at Agincourt.

Michael married Katherine Stafford about 13 Apr 1383. Katherine (daughter of Hugh de Stafford and Philippe de Beauchamp) died on 8 Apr 1419; was buried in Wingfield, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Isabel de la Pole died on 8 Feb 1467.
2. William de la Pole was born on 16 Oct 1396 in Cotton, Suffolk, England; died on 2 May 1450 in On an open boat in the English Channel.

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1st Earl of Suffolk. Admiral of the Northern Fleet. Joint Governor to Richard II. Lord Chancellor of England. Keeper of the Great Seal.

From Wikipedia:

His father was a wool merchant from Hull who became a key figure during the reign of Edward III: after the collapse of the Bardi and Peruzzi families, he emerged as Edward's chief financier. Michael enjoyed even greater popularity at court than his father, becoming one of the most trusted and intimate friends of Edward's successor, Richard II.

He was appointed Chancellor in 1383, and created Earl of Suffolk in 1385, the first of his family to hold any such title. However, in the late 1380s his fortunes radically altered, in step with those of the king. During the Wonderful Parliament of 1386 he was impeached on charges of embezzlement and negligence, a victim of increasing tensions between Parliament and Richard. He was the first official in English history to be removed from office by the process of impeachment. Even after this disgrace, he remained in royal favour, although soon fell foul of the Lords Appellant. He was one of a number of Richard's associates accused of treason by the Appellants in November 1387. After the Appellants' victory at Radcot Bridge (December 1387) and before the so-called Merciless Parliament met in February 1388, De La Pole shrewdly fled to Paris, thus escaping the fate of Sir Nicholas Brembre and Chief Justice Robert Tresilian. He remained in France for the remainder of his life. Sentenced in his absence, his title was stripped from him.

Jean Froissart's references to de la Pole in the Chroniques (II.173) portray a devious and ineffectual counsellor, who dissuaded Richard from pursuing a certain victory against French and Scottish forces in Cumberland, and fomented undue suspicion of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster.

Michael married Katherine Wingfield before 18 Oct 1361. Katherine (daughter of John Wingfield and Eleanor de Brewes) was born in 1350; died before 1 Oct 1386; was buried in Church of the Carthusians, Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: of Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorkshire, England

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“Burgess from Hull to Parliament, 1328, 1332, 1334, 1335, 1336 and 1338; Mayor of Hull, 1333; appointed 2nd Baron of the Exchequer, 26 Sept 1339; a knight by 1340; arrested on orders of the King, Nov 1340, and imprisoned in Fleet Prison until his release 16 May 1342. Knight Banneret, 1355. He was judged by his contemporaries as ‘second to no merchant in England.’” [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, citation details below.]

The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz notwithstanding, his parentage is unproved.

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Sir William de la Pole was a wealthy wool merchant in Kingston upon Hull, England, a royal moneylender and briefly, Chief Baron of the Exchequer.

He established the de la Pole family as one of the primary houses of England through his mercantile and financial success, as well as initiating the foundation of the Charterhouse monastery in Hull.

William married Katherine. Katherine died on 28 Jan 1382. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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She was long thought to have been a daughter of Walter de Norwich, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, but this appears to be unproven.

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Sir John de Wingfield was chief administrator to Edward the Black Prince. He and both his brothers fought at Crecy in 1346. He fought in the Normandy campaign from 1347-48. He was appointed 'governor of the prince's business' (in effect business-manager) to Edward the Black Prince round about 1351. In 1356 Wingfield fought at Poitiers capturing the head of the French King John II's bodyguard, Sire D'Aubigny. Edward III purchased this captive from Wingfield for £833. Wingfield died round about 1361, possibly of the second outbreak of the Black Death.

His will provided for the founding of Wingfield College in 1362. The college was endowed by the Black Prince. Sir John Wingfield's only child, his daughter and heiress, married Michael de la Pole, later 1st Earl of Suffolk and lived at Wingfield Castle in Suffolk.

John married Eleanor de Brewes. Eleanor (daughter of Richard de Brewes) was born about 1330; died in 1375. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Richard married Eleanor Furnival after 17 Mar 1296. Eleanor (daughter of Thomas de Furnival) was born about 1260; died after 1302. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Richard married Alice le Rus before 9 Sep 1265. Alice (daughter of William le Rus and Agatha de Clere) was born about 1247; died before 28 Jan 1301; was buried in Woodbridge Priory, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]