John de la Pole

Abt 1462 - 1487  (~ 25 years)

• Name	John de la Pole
  Birth	Abt 1462  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	16 Jun 1487	East Stoke, Nottinghamshire, England   [1]
  Person ID	I42048	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	31 Mar 2025

  
  

  Father	John de la Pole,   b. 27 Sep 1442   d. Bef 24 Jul 1492 (Age < 49 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth,   b. 22 Apr 1444, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France d. Between 7 Jan 1503 and 3 May 1504 (Age 58 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1 Feb 1458  [1]
  Family ID	F24599	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Margaret Arundel   d. Aft 1525
  Family ID	F24600	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	31 Mar 2025

  
  

• Notes

  Created Earl of Lincoln on 13 March 1467. "Although never publicly declared heir to the throne by his uncle, King Richard III, the king signaled his acceptance of Lincoln as his heir in 1484 by granting him lands worth over £300 and a pension of £176 per year drawn from the duchy of Cornwall, which grant was usually made to the heir to the throne." [—Royal Ancestry, citation details below] Thus was created a plausible alternate timeline in which a great-great-grandson of Geoffrey Chaucer became king. He was killed at the Battle of Stoke Field, considered the last battle of the Wars of the Roses, two years after the Battle of Bosworth Field where Richard III was killed and Henry VII took the throne. Prior to that, he had been instrumental in promoting the spurious claim of "Lambert Simnel."

  
  

• Sources

  [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013.