Nielsen Hayden genealogy
William de la Pole, Mayor of Hull
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Name William de la Pole Suffix Mayor of Hull Birth of Myton (by Hull), Yorkshire, England 
[1] Gender Male Alternate birth of Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorkshire, England [2] Death 21 Jun 1366 [1, 3] Burial Trinity Church, Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorkshire, England [1] Person ID I1396 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others Last Modified 7 Sep 2020
Family Katherine d. 28 Jan 1382 Children + 1. Katherine de la Pole d. Bef 17 Feb 1363 + 2. Blanche de la Pole d. Aft 1378 + 3. Michael de la Pole, b. Abt 1330 d. 5 Sep 1389, Paris, France (Age ~ 59 years)Family ID F11797 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 6 Jan 2018
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Notes - “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.
From Wikipedia:
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.
- “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.]
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Sources - [S1526] The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, Wife of Reverend John Owsley, Generations 1-15, Fourth Preliminary Edition, by Ronny O. Bodine and Bro. Thomas Spalding, Jr. 2013.
- [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013.
- [S128] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant ed. Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Duncan Warrand, Howard de Walden, Geoffrey H. White and R. S. Lea. 2nd edition. 14 volumes (1-13, but volume 12 spanned two books), London, The St. Catherine Press, 1910-1959. Volume 14, "Addenda & Corrigenda," ed. Peter W. Hammond, Gloucestershire, Sutton Publishing, 1998., year only.
- [S1526] The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, Wife of Reverend John Owsley, Generations 1-15, Fourth Preliminary Edition, by Ronny O. Bodine and Bro. Thomas Spalding, Jr. 2013.