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Carney & Wehofer Family
Genealogy Pages
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 1396 - 1450 (53 years)
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| Name |
William De LA POLE [2] |
| Suffix |
1st Duke Of Suffolk |
| Born |
16 Oct 1396 |
Cotton, Suffolk, England  [2] |
| Gender |
Male |
| FamilySearch ID |
9CZ9-DJQ |
| _UID |
FF09CE953D0F4C4C9D0B188ECFD26E08B492 |
| Died |
2 May 1450 |
Murdered/Executed At Sea Off Dover, England [2] |
| Buried |
Carthusian Priory, Hull, Yorkshire, England |
| Person ID |
I14315 |
Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
30 Dec 2022 |
| Father |
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) |
| Mother |
Katherine De STAFFORD, b. Abt 1366, Staffordshire, England , d. 8 Apr 1419, Wingfield Church, Suffolk, England (Age ~ 53 years) |
| Married |
Bef 23 Nov 1383 [3, 4, 5] |
| Family ID |
F7385 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Alice CHAUCER, b. Abt 1404, Ewelme, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England , d. 20 May 1475, Kingston Upon Hull, Yorkshire, England (Age ~ 71 years) |
| Married |
11 Nov 1430 |
3rd Husband [6] |
| Children |
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| Last Modified |
29 Aug 2016 |
| Family ID |
F6651 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Suffolk, other creations. The 4th de la Pole Earl of Suffolk played an important part in national and international affairs during Henry V's and Henry VI's reigns and was promoted first Marquess then Duke of Suffolk. The new Duke of Suffolk became a scapegoat for the increasing failure of English arms in France towards the end of the Hundred Years War and was first imprisoned in the Tower, then banished and finally done to death shortly after he had taken ship from English shores to go into exile. [Burke's Peerage, p. 2761]
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Murdered in an open boat and his head cut off and thrown on the beach.
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EARLDOM OF SUFFOLK (VIII, 4)
MARQUESSATE OF SUFFOLK (I)
DUKEDOM OF SUFFOLK (I)
EARLDOM OF PEMBROKE (XV, 1)
WILLIAM (DE LA POLE), EARL OF SUFFOLK, brother and heir male, was born 16 October 1396 at Cotton, Suffolk, and baptised in the church there. With his father and brother he was at the siege of Harfleur, September 1415, but appears to have been invalided to England in October. He served in the French wars continuously for 17 years (according to his own accounit) from July 1417; was granted the lordships of Hambye and Briquebec, in Normandy, 13 March 1417/8, taking part in the sieges of Cherbourg and Rouen later in that year;(a) Admiral of Normandy, 19 May 14 19; Capt. of Pontorson, 12 June, and Avranches, 27 ug, 1419-ro Dec. 1423; a Conservator of the truce with France, 27 Jan. 1419/,2o, and with Brittany, io Feb. 1420/r, after being at the siege of Melun, July-Nov. 1420; was Cupbearer at the Coronation of Queen Katherine, 21 February 1420/1; K.G. 3 May 1421; Governor of the marches of Lower Normandy, 28 September 1421; Guardian of the Cotentin, 10 October 1422-27 September 1423; served under the Earl of Salisbury in the Champagne campaign of 1423, and under the Duke of Bedford at the surrender of Ivry, 15 August, and the battle of Verneuil, 17 August 1424; Governor of Chartres, 26 September 1424. He was created, in or before 1425, COUNT OF DREUX, in Normandy. As Lieutenant-General of Caen, &c. and Constable of the Earl of Salisbury's army, he conducted the siege of Mont St. Michel in 1425. He led a raid into Brittany as far as Rennes in 1425/6, concluding a three months truce with the Duke of Brittany, April-June 1426; and took part in the unsuccessful siege of Montargis, July-September 1427. In 1428 he was at the siege of Orleans with the Earl of Salisbury, on whose death, 3 November, he was appointed to the chief command there, 13 November. Though the siege at first prospered, the city was relieved by Joan of Arc, 8 May 1429, and Suffolk retreated to Jargeau, where he was forced to surrender, 12 June following. He was, however, released before 15 March 1429/30, when he was appointed Lieutenant of Caen and the Cotentin till 1 June following; and he captured the castle of Aumale in July 1430. P.C. 30 November 1431. He had custody of the Duke of Orleans, 29 August 1432-11 November 1433. Lord Steward of the Household, 1433-50; joint Constable of Wallingford Castle and Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds, 18 June 1434; joint Ambassador to the Congress of Arras to treat for peace with France, 20 June 1435, and again 20 May 1436; High Steward of the Duchy of Lancaster, North of Trent, 23 April 1437-1450; Chief Justice of South Wales, (shortly before) 28 July 1438 (when he was going abroad on the King's business)---February 1439/40, and of North Wales, 19 February 1439/40 and (with Sir Thomas Stanley) 1 December 1443; Joint Keeper (with his wife) of Cornbury Park, Oxon, 16 July 1439; joint Warden of the New Forest and of Lyndhurst Park (in reversion), 28 November 1442; Keeper of the town of Dunwich, 12 February 1442/3. He and his wife Alice were granted, 27 February 1442/3, in reversion, in the event of the death s.p. of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, the then Earl, "nomen stilum titulum et honorem comitis Pembroch , with remainder to the heirs male of their bodies. As Chief Ambassador to France, 11 February 1443/4, he acted as proxy for the betrothal, 24 May 1444, in the church of St. Martin, Tours, of Henry VI to Margaret of Anjou, and concluded a two years truce with France, 28 May following. He was created, 14 September 1444, MARQUESS OF SUFFOLK . Steward and surveyor of all gold and other metal mines in England and Wales, 22 October 1444. He was instructed, 28 October 1444, to escort Margaret to England from Nancy, whence they arrived at Portsmouth, 9 April 1445. Commissioner to treat for peace with France, 20 July 1445 and 1 July 1447. On the death of the Duke of Gloucester abovenamed, 23 February 1446/7, he and his wife became EARL AND COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE, receiving a charter of confirmation, 3 March following. Lord Great Chamberlain of England for life, also Constable of Dover Castle and Warden of the Cinque Ports, 24 February 1446/7; Admiral of England during the minority of Henry, Duke of Exeter, 9 August 1447; joint High Steward of the Duchy of Lancaster, South of Trent, 11 December 1447; Governor and Protector of the Staple of Calais, 9 March 1447/8. He was further created, 2 June 1448, DUKE OF SUFFOLK. He became, however, extremely unpopular, the cession of Maine, the loss of Normandy, the retaining of public money to his own use, and even the death of the King's uncle, "the good" Duke of Gloucester, being laid to his charge. He was committed to the Tower, 28 January, and impeached by the Commons, 7 February and 9 March 1449/50; but on 17 March the King, by force of his submission and not "by wey of Jugement," ordered his banishment for 5 years from 1 May following, and he was released after protest by the Lords, 19 March 1449/50.
He married (licence 11 November 1430) Alice, the childless widow of Thomas (MONTAGU), 4th EARL OF SALISBURY (died 3 November 1428), and before that of Sir John PHILIP (died 2 October 1415), only child and (in 1434) heir of Thomas CHAUCER, of Ewelme, Oxon, Speaker of the House of Commons (son and heir of Geoffrey CHAUCER, the poet), by Maud, daughter and coheir of John DE BURGHERSH [LORD KERDESTON] of Ewelme. While leaving England in accordance with the King's sentence, his ship was intercepted by the Nicholas of the Tower in Dover Roads, 1 May, and he was murdered there, 2 May 1450, his head being cut off in an open boat, aged 53. His body was thrown upon the beach near Dover and was buried at Wingfield. After his death, although he was never under attainder, the Earldom of Pembroke seems to have lapsed. His widow, who was born about 1404, died 20 May (or possibly 9 June) 1475, and was buried at Ewelme. M.I. [Complete Peerage XII/1:443-8, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
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- [S579] Jim Weber.
- [S63] Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000, XII/1:443-448 (Reliability: 3).
- [S289] Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles M o s l e y Editor-in-Chief, 1999, 26 May 2003., 2682 (Reliability: 3).
- [S25] Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999, 5-8 (Reliability: 3).
- [S63] Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000, XII/1:442 (Reliability: 3).
- [S63] Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000, XII/1:446-447 (Reliability: 3).
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