Michael de la Pole

Abt 1330 - 1389  (~ 59 years)

• Name	Michael de la Pole  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1330  [2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	5 Sep 1389	Paris, France   [2, 3]
  Burial	Church of the Carthusians, Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorkshire, England   [2, 3]
  Person ID	I19025	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	19 Mar 2020

  
  

  Father	William de la Pole, Mayor of Hull,   b. of Myton (by Hull), Yorkshire, England d. 21 Jun 1366
  Mother	Katherine   d. 28 Jan 1382
  Family ID	F11797	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Katherine Wingfield,   b. 1350   d. Bef 1 Oct 1386 (Age < 36 years)
  Marriage	Bef 18 Oct 1361  [2]
  Children	+ 1. Thomas de la Pole,   b. of Marsh in Marsh Gibbon, Buckinghamshire, England d. 1420 + 2. Anne de la Pole   d. 30 Mar 1412 + 3. Michael de la Pole,   b. Bef 1368   d. 18 Sep 1415, Harfleur, Normandy, France (Age > 47 years)
  Family ID	F11794	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Mar 2021

  
  

• Notes

  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.

  
  

• Sources

  [S2164] The Paston Letters: A Selection in Modern Spelling ed. Norman Davis. 2nd edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983. [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. [S3845] Stradebroke Manor by P. W. Mackenzie. 2020.