Po18-2 Michael (II) de la Pole

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(Po18-2-4) Sir Geoffrey  Pole, K.G., married Edith St. John and had:
(Po18-2-4-1) Richard de la Pole, who married Margaret Plantagenet Countess of  Salisbury daughter of George, Duke of Clarence, and had issue:

Source : The Kings and Queens of Great Britain, College of Arms:.

(Po18-2-4-1-1) infant d.y.
(Po18-2-4-1-2) Henry de la Pole, Lord Montague, ex. 1539 married Jane daughter of George Neville Lord Abergavenny
(Po18-2-4-1-3) Edward de la Pole, Earl of Wrwick, attainted due to father,
(Po18-2-4-1-4) Richard d. 1477
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Richard de la Pole (died February 24, 1525 in Pavia, Duchy of Milan) was a pretender to the English crown.

He was the fifth son of John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk and his wife Elizabeth of York. His mother was the second surviving daughter of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York and Cecily Neville. She was also a younger sister to Edward IV of England and Edmund, Earl of Rutland as well as an older sister to Margaret of York, George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence and Richard III of England.

His eldest brother John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln (c. 1464-1487), is said to 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, Lincoln took the oath of allegiance instead of claiming the throne for himself.

In 1487, Lincoln joined the rebellion of Lambert Simnel, and was killed at the Battle of Stoke. The second brother Edmund (c. 1472-1513), succeeded his father while still in his minority. His estates suffered under the attainder of his brother, and he was compelled to pay large sums to Henry VII for the recovery of part of the forfeited lands, and also to exchange his title of duke for that of earl. In 1501 he sought Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor in Tyrol, and received from him a promise of substantial assistance in case of an attempt on the English crown.

In consequence of these treasonable proceedings Henry seized his brother William de la Pole, with four other Yorkist noblemen. Two of them, Sir James Tyrrell and Sir John Wyndham, were executed, William de la Pole was imprisoned and Edmund de la Pole, 3rd Duke of Suffolk outlawed. Then in July 1502 Henry concluded a treaty with Maximilian by which the king bound himself not to countenance English rebels. Presently Suffolk fell into the hands of Philip I of Castile, who imprisoned him at 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 at the time his brother Richard took up arms with the French king.

Richard de la Pole joined Edmund abroad in 1504, and remained at Aix-la-Chapelle as surety for his elder brothers debts. The creditors threatened to surrender him to Henry VII, but, more fortunate than his brother, he found a safe refuge at Buda with King Ladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary. He was excepted from the general pardon proclaimed at the accession of Henry VIII, and when Louis XII of France went to war with the Kingdom of England in 1512 he recognized Pole's pretensions to the English crown, and gave him a command in the French army. In 1513, after the execution of Edmund, he assumed the title of Earl of Suffolk. In 1514 he was given 12,000 German mercenaries ostensibly for the defence of Brittany, but really for an invasion of England. These he led to St. Malo, but the conclusion of peace with England prevented their embarcation. Pole was required to leave France, and he established himself at Metz, in Lorraine, and built a palace at La Haute Pierre, near St. Simphorien.

While at Metz, he was visited by Pierre Alamire, the German-Netherlandish composer and music copyist, as a spy for Henry VIII. However de la Pole employed Alamire as a counter-spy against Henry, and Alamire, on being suspected of unreliability by Cardinal Thomas Wolsey and Henry, never returned to England.

He had numerous interviews with King Francis I of France, and in 1523 he was permitted, in concert with John Stewart, 2nd Duke of Albany, the Scottish regent, to arrange an invasion of England, which was never carried out. He was with Francis I at the Battle of Pavia, where he was killed on February 24, 1525.

Here's a picutre of Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, who was born in 1473 and executed in 1541. She was daughter of George, Duke of Clarence, married Sir Richard Pole and had three sons: Henry, Geoffrey and Reginald. She acted as governess to Princess Mary Tudor for a time. An act of attainder was passed against her, and she was executed on news of a rebellion in Yorkshire.

Born at Farleigh Castle in the English county of Somerset, on 14 August 1473, she was the daughter of George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence and Isabel Neville. Her mother was the elder daughter of the 'Kingmaker' Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick and Anne Neville, 16th Countess of Warwick.

Margaret's brother was Edward, Earl of Warwick, who as the last male representative of the Yorkist line, was seen as a danger to the new Tudor dynasty and was executed on the orders of King Henry VII on 28 November 1499. Around 1491, Henry VII had given Margaret in marriage to Sir Richard Pole, whose mother was the half-sister of the king's mother, Margaret Beaufort. At her husband's death in 1505, Margaret was left with five children, of whom the fourth, Reginald Pole, was to become cardinal and Archbishop of Canterbury.

The family fortunes were various. On his accession, King Henry VIII reversed her brother's attainder; and, in 1513, made her Countess of Salisbury in her own right. An Act of Restitution was also passed by which she came into possession of her ancestral domains. Her chief residence was Warblington Castle in Hampshire. After the birth of Princess Mary, later Queen Mary I, Margaret became her godmother and sponsor in confirmation and was afterwards appointed governess of the princess and her household. As the years passed there was talk of a marriage between the princess and the countess's son Reginald, who was still a layman. However, when the matter of the king's divorce from Catherine of Aragon began to be talked of, Reginald Pole boldly spoke out his mind in the affair and shortly afterwards withdrew from England. The princess was still in the countess's charge when Henry married Anne Boleyn, but when he was opposed in his efforts to have his daughter treated as illegitimate, he removed the countess from her post, though she begged to be allowed to follow and serve Mary at her own charge. She returned to court after the fall of Anne, but in 1530 Reginald Pole sent Henry a copy of his published treatise Pro ecclesiasticae unitatis defensione, in answer to questions put to him on the king's behalf by Thomas Cromwell, Cuthbert Tunstall, Thomas Starkey, and others. Besides being a theological reply to the questions, the book was a denunciation of the king's policies. Henry was enraged, and though the Countess and her eldest son had written to Reginald in reproof of his attitude and action, determined that the family should pay for the insult.

In November, 1538, her eldest son, Henry Pole, Baron Montagu, another son and other relatives were arrested on a charge of treason, though Thomas Cromwell had previously written that they had "little offended save that he [the Cardinal] is of their kin", they were committed to the Tower, and in January, with the exception of Geoffrey Pole, they were executed. Ten days after the arrest of her sons, Margaret herself, despite her age, was arrested and examined by William FitzWilliam, Earl of Southampton, and Thomas Goodrich, Bishop of Ely, but these reported to Thomas Cromwell that although they had "travailed with her" for many hours she would "nothing utter", and they were forced to conclude that either her sons had not made her a sharer in their "treason", or else she was "the most arrant traitress that ever lived". In Southampton's custody she was committed to Cowdray Park, near Midhurst, and there subjected to all manner of indignity. In May Cromwell introduced against her a Bill of Attainder, the readings of which were hurriedly got over, and at the third reading Cromwell produced a white silk tunic found in one of her coffers, which was embroidered on the back with the Five Wounds, and for this, which was held to connect her with the Northern Uprising, she was "attainted to die by act of Parliament" and also lost her titles. The other charges against her, to which she was never permitted to reply, had to do with the escape from England of her chaplain and the conveying of messages abroad. After the passage of the Act, she was removed to the Tower and there, for nearly two years, she was "tormented by the severity of the weather and insufficient clothing". In April, 1541, there was another insurrection in Yorkshire, and it was then determined to enforce without any further procedure the Act of Attainder passed in 1539. In some sense her execution was the continuation by Henry VIII of his father's programme of eliminating possible contenders for the throne.
 

[edit] Execution
She refused to the end to acknowledge that she was a traitor. A popular ballad at the time reads:

For traitors on the block should die,
I am no traitor, no, not I!
My faithfulness stands fast and so,
Towards the block I shall not go!
Nor make on step, as you shall see,
Christ in Thy Mercy, save Thou me!
On the morning of May 27, 1541 Margaret was told she was to die within the hour. She answered that no crime had been imputed to her; nevertheless she was taken from her cell to the place within the precincts of the Tower of London, where a low wooden block had been prepared. As Margaret was of noble birth, she was not executed before the populace, though there were about 150 witnesses. According to some accounts, the countess, who was 67 years old, frail and ill, was dragged to the block, but refused to lay her head on it, having to be forced down. As she struggled, the executioner's first blow made a gash in her shoulder rather than her neck. She then leapt from the block and ran away pursued by the executioner, being struck eleven times before she died.
 

[edit] Legacy
Her son, Reginald Cardinal Pole said that he would "...never fear to call himself the son of a martyr". She was later regarded by Catholics as such and was beatified in 1886 by Pope Leo XIII.
 

[edit] Issue
She and her husband were parents to five children:

Henry Pole, 1st Baron Montagu (c. 1492 - January 9, 1539). Most famous as one of the peers in the trial of Anne Boleyn. Married Jane Neville, daughter of George Neville, Lord Abergavenny and Margaret Fenne.
Reginald Cardinal Pole (c. 1500 - November 17, 1558). Papal legate in various regions, including England, and finally Archbishop of Canterbury.
Sir Geoffrey Pole (c. 1501 - 1558). Suspected for treason by Henry VIII and accused of conspirating with Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. Lived in exile in Europe. He was married to Constance Pakenham, daughter and heiress of Sir John Packenham.
Sir Arthur Pole (c. 1502 - 1535). Lord of the Manor of Broadhurst, Sussex. Married Jane Lewknor, daughter of Sir Roger Lewknor and Eleanor Touchet. Eleanor was daughter of James Tuchet, 6th Baron Audley and Anne Echingham. James was son of James Tuchet, 5th Baron Audley and Margaret de Ros.
Ursula Pole, Baroness Stafford (c. 1504 - August 12, 1570). Married Henry Stafford, 1st Baron Stafford.

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 before being appealed of treason during the Merciless Parliament in 1388, and forfeited the title of Earl of Suffolk and the family estates. Over the next decade, Michael 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.

Michael married Katharine de Stafford, daughter of Hugh Stafford, 2nd Earl of Stafford. They were parents to at least eight children:

Michael de la Pole, 3rd Earl of Suffolk (1394–1415)
William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk (1396–1450)
Alexander de la Pole (d. 1429), killed at the Battle of Jargeau
Sir John de la Pole (d. 1429), died a prisoner in France
Thomas de la Pole (d. 1433), a clerk, died in France while a hostage for his brother William
Katherine de la Pole, abbess at Barking
Isabel de la Pole (d. 1466), married Thomas Morley, 5th Lord Morley.
Elizabeth de la Pole, married first Edward Burnell, son of Hugh Burnell, 2nd Lord Burnell, second Sir Thomas Kerdeston
While he obeyed the summons of the Duke of York to defend the kingdom against Henry Bolingbroke in July 1399, he did not object to the disbandment of York's army and consented to the deposition of Richard II. While the first Parliament of Henry IV technically upheld the forfeitures of the Merciless Parliament, his estates and title were immediately restored by Henry IV for 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, naval operations around 1405, and was the senior English diplomat at the Council of Pisa. Suffolk was also a lieutenant of the Duke of Clarence during his campaign of 1412–1413. However, most of his energies were spent on re-establishing de la Pole influence in East Anglia. He was 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. He died of dysentery before Harfleur, and was succeeded by his eldest son Michael, who was also present there.
 

[edit] References
Walker, Simon (2004). “Pole, Michael de la, second earl of Suffolk (1367/8–1415)”, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved on 2007-01-02.

This is the monument to Alice. She was the daughter of Sir Thomas Chaucer and grandaughter of Sir Geoffrey Chaucer, the poet. She was married twice: firstly, to Thomas Montacute, the Earl of Salisbury and, secondly, to William De La Pole, the Duke of Suffolk. Her son married Princess Elizabeth, the sister of Kings Edward IV and Richard III, and her grandchildren were recognised as heirs to the latter's throne. She lived in the (now demolished) Palace of Ewelme in the tiny village of that name in Oxfordshire and died there on 20th May 1475. The monument stands between the chancel and the lady chapel in the unassuming parish church there. It is one of the most stunning examples of medieval art that you will see anywhere in the World.