Margaret FITZALAN

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• _UID: 83DA3E6175AC441FA4163F2ED9798533B10C

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Margaret; married John de la Pole, 1st and last Earl of Lincoln of the March 1466/7 creation (dsp 1487), and died in or after 1493. [Burke's Peerage]

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He [John de la Pole] married Margaret, daughter of Thomas (FITZALAN), EARL OF ARUNDEL, by Margaret, daughter of Richard (WYDVILL), EARL RIVERS, and sister of Elizabeth, wife of EDWARD IV. He died as aforesaid, v.p. and s.p., 16 June 1487, when his Earldom became extinct, and he was tainted. His widow Margaret was living in 1493 or later. [Complete Peerage VII:688-90, XIV:437, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

Family/Spouse: John De LA POLE, 1st\Last Earl Of Lincoln. John (son of John De LA POLE, 2nd Duke Of Suffolk and Elizabeth "Of York" PLANTAGENET) was born about 1462 in Wingfield, Suffolk, England; died on 16 Jun 1487 in Battle Of Stoke, Nottinghamshire, England (Dsp &Vp). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: F6943684E2F441858C3C74B7214694A47270

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The ancestry of Margaret is not certain. Many have her the daughter of a Michael de la Pole, "a younger son of the Earl of Suffolk". Although the Earl of Suffolk was still around as a lesser title for the Dukes, nobody, except for the 2nd Duke's son Edmund (c1471-1513) (he was too young to be such a Michael's father) had gone by the title of Earl of Suffolk for 3 generations by the time of Margaret de la Pole. The last Earl of Suffolk who had children was a Michael de la Pole, d. 1415. Therefore if Michael de la Pole, as Margaret's father, was a younger son of a titled peer, he would have been the younger son of one of the Dukes.

I found this ancestry in World Connect, db=:2181483, Jeanie Davis. It is as probable as any, and more than most. The only "iffy" part of it is Margaret being the daughter of John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln, whom Burke's Peerage states died without issue (dsp).

Margaret married before 1503. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]