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Katherine de la Pole (1410/1411 – 1473) was the abbess of Barking Abbey. Life. La Pole was born in about 1410 and she was the oldest daughter of Michael de la Pole, 2nd Earl of Suffolk and Katherine de Stafford. She became abbess of Barking Abbey in January 1433.
Katherine de la Pole, Countess of Suffolk (born around 1376 – 8 April 1419) was a daughter of Hugh de Stafford, 2nd Earl of Stafford, and his wife Lady Philippa de Beauchamp. By her marriage to Michael de la Pole, 2nd Earl of Suffolk , she became known as the Countess of Suffolk .
The story of the de la Pole family – from ‘rags to rags’ over 6 generations between 1290 and 1525, is evidence that there were ways to escape the rigidity of medieval society. Their history is also evidence of the dangerous times in which they lived, and the curse of the blood of York.
Tradition has it that Katherine de la Pole, countess of Suffolk built the porch of Fressingfield Church (Suffolk) in memory of a husband and a son. The former had made his will in July 1415 and had requested that if he died abroad either his body or his bones be brought home for burial in Wingfield Church (Suffolk).
- Michael de La Pole, 1st Earl of Suffolk
- Michael de La Pole, 2nd Earl of Suffolk
- William de La Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk
- John de La Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk
- John de La Pole, Earl of Lincoln
- Edmund de La Pole 3rd Duke of Suffolk
- Richard de La Pole
Michael de la Pole, the son of William and his wife Catherine Norwich, was to rise much higher than his father, he became Edward III's chief financier, and served under Edward's sons Edward, the Black Prince and John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster. He later struck a close friendship with Edward's grandson and heir,Richard II. Richard appointed him Cha...
Michael de la Pole, the second Duke of Suffolk was the eldest son of the first Earl and his wife Katherine Wingfield, the daughter of Sir John Wingfield. He made frequent attempts to have his father's lands and title restored to him finally meeting with success on the issue between 1389 and 1392. He served the crown in a military capacity but large...
William de la Pole, who features in Shakespeare's 'Henry VI' was the second son of Michael de la Pole, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, and Katherine de Stafford, daughter of Hugh de Stafford, 2nd Earl of Stafford. He fought in Henry V's French wars and was seriously wounded during the Siege of Harfleur and had been sent home to England to recover thereby he m...
William de la Pole was the eldest son of the first Duke of Suffolk and Alice Chaucer, on 7 February 1450, at the age of nine, he was married to the seven-year-old Lady Margaret Beaufort, the daughter of Henry VI's cousin John Beaufort, Earl of Somerset, their marriage, however, was later annulled. Although Richard Duke of York had been his father's...
On the tragic early death of his only son, Edward of Middleham Prince of Wales in 1483, Richard III appointed his nephew John de la Pole, eldest son of his sister Elizabeth and John de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk as his heir-apparent. Although his nephew Edward Plantagenet, Earl of Warwick, possessed a superior claim he was debarred from inheriting th...
Edmund de la Pole, the 3rd Duke of Suffolk was the fourth son of John de la Pole and Elizabeth Plantagenet. He was the grandson of Richard Duke of York and William de la Pole the 1st Duke. Following the death of his eldest brother John at Stoke Field in 1487, Edmund became the Yorkist claimant to the throne. Although he succeeded to the title Duke ...
Richard de la Pole, the youngest son of John de la Pole Duke of Suffolk and Elizabeth Plantagenet, referred to as the 'White Rose', was the last member of the House of York to actively seek the crown of England. Richard joined his brother Edmund abroad in 1504 and remained at Aix-la-Chapelle as surety for his elder brother's debts. The creditors th...
Katherine de la Pole married Sir Richard Harcourt, Sheriff of Oxfordshire & Berkshire, son of Sir Thomas Harcourt and Joan Frauncis, circa 1470; They had 1 son (William). Katherine de la Pole left a will on 7 July 1488. She wrote a codicil on 5 September 1488. She died on 13 October 1488 or 14 October 1488; Buried in Rowley Abbey, Oxfordshire.
5 de mai. de 2014 · Summary. T he name of Katherine de la Pole holds little resonance today, despite the fact that she was born into a family whose dynastic ambition and ability to exercise and manipulate political power in the fifteenth century were, and remain, notorious. Born c. 1416, Katherine was the only daughter of Thomas de la Pole of Grafton ...
