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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).
Biography. Katherine was born on 6 May 1410. [1] . She was the daughter of Michael de la Pole [2] and Elizabeth Mowbray . She took the religious habit as a sister of the minoresses of the abbey, house or church of Bruisyard and was professed on 9 May 1423. [3] Her heir was her uncle William de la Pole, earl of Suffolk. [3] Sources.
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 ...
Katherine de la Pole was born around 1410 as the eldest daughter of Michael de la Pole, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, and Katherine de Stafford. She assumed the role of abbess of Barking Abbey in January 1433, where she was responsible for the well-being of Edmund and Jasper Tudor, Catherine of Valois’ sons with Owen Tudor, from 1437 to 1440.
