Michael De LA POLE, 1st Earl Of Suffolk^{[1, 2]}

Abt 1330 - 1389  (~ 59 years)

• Name	Michael De LA POLE  [3, 4, 5, 6]
  Suffix	1st Earl Of Suffolk
  Born	Abt 1330	Hull, Kingston-Upon-Hull, Yorkshire, England   [6, 7]
  Gender	Male
  Ancestor Interest	MEDIUM
  Milit_Serv	1370	Limoges, Haute-Vienne, Limousin, France   [8]
  	Fought under the Black Prince at Limoges.
  Occupation	Abt 1383  [9]
  	K.G., Lord Chancellor of England.
  Accedence	1385  [10, 11, 12]
  	Created 1st Earl of Suffolk.
  FamilySearch ID	LCPN-JDQ
  Milit_Serv	Served in the French wars under the Black Prince & later under John of Gaunt.
  Milit_Serv	Accompanied John of Gaunt on campaign in France several times.
  Milit_Serv	Captain of Calais. Admiral of the Fleet North of the River Thames.
  Note	A favorite of King Richard II. The only one of the King's closest councillors to have practical experience.
  Note	One of John of Gaunt's most trusted retainers & closest advisors.
  Note	1386
  	Charged with treason, exiled & outlawed.
  Name	Michael DE LA POLE
  _UID	179F02105C8A4A8380BE8063037B8FF7A01D
  Died	5 Sep 1389	Paris, Seine, Ile-DE-France, France   [5, 6, 15, 16]
  Buried	Aft 5 Sep 1389	Church Of The Carthusians, Kingston-Upon-Hull, Yorkshire, England   [7]
  Person ID	I13316	Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
  Last Modified	30 Dec 2022

  
  

  Family	Katherine DE WINGFIELD,   b. Bef 1349, Wingfield, Hartismere, Suffolk, England ,   d. Bef 10 Oct 1386, Church Of The Carthusians, Kingston-Upon-Hull, Yorkshire, England  (Age ~ 37 years)
  Married	Bef 18 Oct 1361  [17, 18, 19]
  Children	1. Anne De LA POLE,   b. Abt 1365, Wingfield, Suffolk, England ,   d. 30 Mar 1412  (Age ~ 47 years)   2. William DE LA POLE,   b. Abt 1365, Of Hull, Yorkshire, England ,   d. 1390  (Age ~ 25 years)   3. Philippe DE LA POLE,   b. Abt 1366, Of Cotton, Suffolk, England ,   d. Yes, date unknown   4. Michael De LA POLE, 2nd Earl Of Suffolk,   b. Bef 1367, Hull, Kingston-Upon-Hull, Yorkshire, England ,   d. 18 Sep 1415, Siege Of Harfluer, France  (Age ~ 48 years)   5. Thomas DE LA POLE, Of Grafton Regis & Marsh, Sir,   b. Bef 1374, Marsh Gibbon, Buckinghamshire, England ,   d. 21 Aug 1420, Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire, England  (Age ~ 46 years)   6. Anne DE LA POLE,   b. 1375, Of Hull, Yorkshire, England ,   d. Between 1400 and 1410  (Age 25 years)   7. Richard DE LA POLE,   b. 1377,   d. 1403  (Age 26 years)
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2016
  Family ID	F6785	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Suffolk, other creations: Following William de Ufford's death, when the Earldom of Suffolk of the second creation is deemed to have expired, the titles was conferred in 1385, barely three and a half years later, on Michael de la Pole, of a prosperous but bourgeois family from Hull. His career as diplomat and official flourished (he was Lord Chancellor in the mid-1380's) but his being a favourite of Richard II made him unpopular with the more established nobility and he was tried "in absentia" for high treason and on being found guilty forfeited his titles. Shortly before Richard II's own fall the son, another Michael, was restored to his father's honours but this restoration was itself annulled on Henry IV's coming to the throne. Michael managed to make his peace with the new King, however, and had the Earldom restored to him a second time. [Burke's Peerage, p. 2761] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------- BARONY OF POLE (I) EARLDOM OF SUFFOLK (V, 1) MICHAEL DE LA POLE, 1st son and heir, was born about 1330; knighted before 16 November 1353; was in the retinue of the Duke of Lancaster in his attempted expedition to aid Charles of Navarre in 1355 and accompanied the Black Prince in that of 1359. He was summoned v.p. to Parliament 20 January 1365/6 and on to 28 September 1384, by writs directcd Michaeli de la Pole, whereby he is held to have become LORD DE LA POLE. He succeeded his father as above, 21 June 1366; was a Commissioner of array for the East Riding of Yorks and Kingston-upon-Hull, 10 February, and de walliis et fossatis for the waters of Hull and Derwent, 30 July 1367; served again in the French wars from 1369, taking part in the sieges of Limoges (under the Black Prince), September 1370, and Montfont (under the Duke of Lancaster), December 1370-January 1370/1; Admiral of the fleet from the mouth of the Thames towards the north, 24 November 1376 (re-appointed 14 August following)--5 Dec. 1377; Commissioner to receive the castle of Brest from the Duke of Brittany, 9 April 1378, in which year also he accompanied Lancaster's abortive naval expedition against St. Malo. He founded a small monastery of 13 monks of the Carthusian Order at Kingston-upon-Hull, 18 February 1378/9. P.C. before 18 March 1378/9; Chief Ambassador to Milan (to negotiate a marriage between Richard Il and Catherine, daughter of Barnarbo Visconti of Milan), 18 March 1378/9, also to Rome and to Wenceslas, King of the Romans and of Bohemia (to suggest a marriage between Richard II and Anne, sister of Wenceslas), during which latter embassy he was made prisoner (as was also, apparently, Anne) before 19 January 1379/80, and was ransomed "at a high price" before 28 March 1381; joint Governor of the King, November 1381; Lord Chancellor of England, 13 March 1382/3-23 October 1386. While accompanying the King on his only expedition into Scotland, he was created, 6 August 1385, at Hoselaw, in Teviotdale, EARL OF SUFFOLK. Commissioner to treat with France at the request of the King of Armenia, 22 January and Chief Commissioner to inspect Calais, 13 March 1385/6. His favour with the King making him unpopular, he was impeached and convicted in the Parliament that met at Westminster, 1 October 1386, whereby many of his lands were forfeited, he was heavily fined and was committed to Corfe Castle. The King, however, sent him to Windsor, where he was soon released; and the above proceedings were declared void by the judges at Nottingham, 25 August 1387. He was with the King and Robert (de Vere), Duke of Ireland, in Wales and the Midlands during the summer of 1387 and returned with them to London, I0 November. But being accused by Gloucester, Arundel and Warwick (the "Lords Appellant"), he fled the realm in December 1387, and was in his absence found guilty of high treason by Parliament, 13 February 1387/8 (l), whereby all his honours were forfeited. He married, before 18 October 1361, Katherine, daughter and heir of Sir John WINGFIELD, of Wingfield, Suffolk, by Eleanor, daughter and heir of Gilbert (or Ralph) de Glanville. She, who was aged 26 and more in 1375, was living, 18 February 1378/9, and died before 1 October 1386, being buried in the Church of the Carthusians at Kingston-upon-Hull. M.I. He died 5 September 1389 in Paris and was buried with her. M.I. [Complete Peerage XII/1:437-40, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)] (l) The chroniclers say that he appeared before Calais Castle, of which his brother Edmund was Captain. The Governor of Calais, William Beauchamp, sent him back to the King who again allowed him to escape, this time from Hull, whither the King's serjeant was sent 20 Dec, to arrest him. According to Froissart, he and Vere crossed the North Sea together and landed at Dordrecht in Holland, but other accounts differ. Later he proceeded with Vere to Paris. Further orders for his arrest were issued 27 Dec 1387, 4 Jan and 20 Feb 1387/8.

  
  

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