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  Richard De La Pole - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
1525), pretender to the English crown, was the fifth son of John de la Pole (1442-1491), 2nd duke of Suffolk, and Elizabeth second daughter of Richard, duke of York and sister of Edward IV.
On the accession of Henry VII., however, Lincoln took the oath of allegiance, but in 1487 he joined the rebellion of Lambert Simnel, and was killed at the battle of Stoke.
Pole was required to leave France, and he established himself at Metz, in Lorraine, and built a palace at La Haute Pierre, near St Simphorien.
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 GENUKI: English Peerage 1790: Extinct Peerage - Earls (1)
Walter Giffard, earl of Longueville in the province of Normandy, a distant relation to king William the conqueror, was created by that monarch earl of Buckingham, which title became extinct in that family upon the death of Walter, second earl of Buckingham 1164.
Henry de Newburgh, son of Roger de Bellomont earl of Mellent in the province of Normandy, was created by king William the conqueror earl of Warwick, which title became extinct upon the death of Thomas, sixth earl of Warwick, 26 June 1242.
John Marshal, of the family of the earls of Pembroke, succeeded to the title of earl of Warwick in right of Margery, his wife, daughter of Henry de Newburgh, fifth earl of Warwick, and died immediately after.
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 AllRefer.com - Pole, English noble family (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
He arranged the marriage (1445) of Margaret of Anjou to Henry VI and rose to a position of great political authority, reaching the peak of his power in 1448 when he was made duke.
Of his sons, the eldest was John de la Pole, earl of Lincoln, 1464–87, who was recognized by Richard III as his heir presumptive.
The second son, Edmund de la Pole, earl of Suffolk, 1472?–1513, agreed to the wish of Henry VII that he forego the ducal title in return for some of the property forfeited as a result of his brother's treason.
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 The House of Yorks
Edmund de la Pole was beheaded by Henry VIII and the last de la Pole heir, Richard, was killed at the battle of Pavia in 1524, fighting for the French.
John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln 1464?-1487 The eldest son of Elizabeth and John, Duke and Duchess of Suffolk, was created Earl of Lincoln in 1468.
Richard de la Pole, 14?-1525 Richard was the fifth son of John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk, and Elizabeth, sister of Edward IV.
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 Lambert Simnel - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
It is probable that Symonds acted throughout with the connivance of the Yorkist leaders, and especially of John de la Pole, earl of Lincoln, himself a nephew of Edward IV., who had been named heir to the crown by Richard III.
Elizabeth Woodville, widow of Edward IV., was imprisoned in the convent of Bermondsey; and the real earl of Warwick was taken from the Tower and shown in public in the streets of London.
Making for the fortress of Newark, Lincoln and Sir Thomas Broughton, at the head of their motley forces, and accompanied by Simnel, attacked the royal army near the village of Stoke-on-Trent on the 16th of June 1487.
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 John de la Pole, 1st Earl of Lincoln - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln (1462/1464 - June 16, 1487), was the eldest son of John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk and Elizabeth of York.
After Richard's defeat at the Battle of Bosworth Field on August 22, 1485, Lincoln was reconciled with the new king, Henry VII, but soon became impatient for power and tried to achieve it by supporting the claims of the boy pretender, Lambert Simnel.
Lincoln's life came to an end at the Battle of Stoke in 1487, at which the rebel army was defeated, and he was killed.
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 GENUKI: A History of Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, 1892: Part 12.
His brother, Edmund De la Pole - the last of the family who bore the title of Earl of Suffolk - was, through the jealousy of Henry VII., detained a prisoner in the Tower for seven years, and was afterwards beheaded by order of Henry VIII., without the formality of a trial, in 1513.
John's College, Cambridge, besides which he gave liberally to the Hull Grammar School, and rebuilt an almshouse on South Church side, the inmates of which were transferred to the new Municipal Almshouses in 1887.
John Alderson, William Wilberforce, William Etty R.A. John Alderson, M.D., was the fourth son of the Rev. John Alderson, of Lowestoft, where he was born, in 1757.
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 The House of York
Edmund de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk, 1472?-1513
John Neville, Marquis Montagu and Earl of Northumberland, 1431?-1471
John was raised to the peerage as Baron Montagu and made Lord Chamberlain of the Household, a position that gave him a seat in the Privy Council.
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 Henry VII
John de la Pole was killed at Stoke.
Edmund de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk fled to the Hapsburg Court.
Edward, Earl of Warwick was the son of George, Duke of Clarence.
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 De La Pole Documentation - Genealogy Notes Margaret De La Pole
He was descended from Sir John deHardy of Bedfordshire and Lady Margaret, d/o Michael de la Pole, a younger s/o the Earl of Suffolk.
They probably derived their name from Pole, in Montgomery, close to which was the abbey of De la Pole.
John Earl of Lincoln was killed at the battle of Stoke, whilst endeavouring to make good his claim to the Crown.
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 The Battle of Stoke Fields 1487
She was supported in her campaign by a number of nobles in England including John De la Pole, Earl of Lincoln, who was himself the son of Elizabeth, another of the sisters of the two Yorkist Kings.
Lincoln’s attack did indeed meet with some initial success but again in close combat the poor equipment and armour of half of his force quickly showed and a counter attack by Oxford was enough to break the resistance of much of the rebel army.
Their commander Martin Schwartz and Lincoln were (killed in battle); Lovell escaped by swimming the Trent and was never seen alive again, and Simnel was captured and put to work in the royal kitchens.
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 Stoke
The real Earl, as the heir to the House of York (he was nephew to Edward IV and Richard III, Clarence's son), had been imprisoned in the Tower by Henry after Bosworth.
Yorkist sympathisers such as John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln (another Yorkist heir as son of Richard III and Edward IV's sister, Elizabeth) and Viscount Lovell were living in exile at the court of the Duke of Burgundy, whose wife was Margaret of York (another sister of Richard III and Edward IV).
From Masham, Lincoln wrote a note to the lord mayor and the city leaders of York, warning him that their force would soon be reaching York, where it would be gathering supplies.
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 TimeRef - History Timelines - Medieval People Starting With N
John was the brother of Richard Neville, the 'Kingmaker'.
The Earl of Warwick landed at Dartmouth in Devon accompanied by the Lancastrian Earl of Oxford and Jasper Tudor, the half-brother of Henry VI.
The Earl of Warwick with a force from Calais reached Ludlow and the combined army of the Yorkists attacked the king's army at Ludford Bridge near Ludlow.
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 Wikinfo | Henry VII of England   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Lincoln was killed at the Battle of Stoke, but Simnel's life was spared and he became a royal servant.
Edward's elder sister, Margaret Pole, who had the next best claim on the throne, inherited her father's earldom of Salisbury and survived well into the next reign.
In this he was supported by his chancellor, Archbishop John Morton, whose "fork" was a catch-22 method of ensuring that nobles paid the appropriate taxes.
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 The Society - History
The rebels claimed he was Edward, Earl of Warwick, the son of the executed duke of Clarence and brother to kings Edward IV and Richard III.
On Monday 4 June, Lincoln, Lovell and Sir Thomas Fitzgerald with the boy-king and mercenary leader Martin Schwartz landed an army on Foulney Island in Lancashire and close to lands held by Sir Thomas Broughton, a staunch supporter.
Lincoln’s route south is not known but he was joined at some point by Sir Edward Hastings and Robert Percy of Scotton with companies of men, and a further rendezvous was made, possibly at Castleford or Stainforth.
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 Henry VII
Henry Tudor was the posthumous son of Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond, a half-brother of King Henry VI of England.
His mother was Margaret Beaufort, a descendant of King Edward III through John of Gaunt and Katherine Swynford.
From his father, he inherited the title Earl of Richmond; from his mother, his questionable claim to the throne of England.
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 War of Roses   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
York and Warwick's father, the Earl of Salisbury, were killed at the Battle of Wakefield, near Pontrefact Castle, Yorkshire in December 1460, and on Feb. 17, 1461, the Lancastrians routed Warwick at St. Albans and regained possession of the king.
On 17 August 1469 the Earl obtained from Edward IV, who had been captured by the Archbishop and was, 25 August, at Middleham, the grant of the great offices in South Wales, lately held by the Earl of Pembroke, whose execution he had caused.
Edward and Warwick met in battle at Barnet; the earl was defeated and was slain in flight.
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John (Son of Edward I) (b.1266 - d.1271)
John de la Pole (Earl of Lincoln) (- d.1487)
Edmund de la Pole (Earl of Suffolk) (- d.1513)
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 TimeRef: My Project Details   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln, was the son of Elizabeth, sister to Edward IV.
The real Earl of Warwick had been imprisoned by Henry VII in the Tower of London because he was the newphew of Edward IV and a rightful heir to the English throne.
Lincoln was killed and Lambert Simnel was captured.
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 Airs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln (Richard III's designated successor after the death of his only son) rebelled against Henry VII, using the imposter Lambert Simnel.
Lincoln was killed in the battle, but Simnel survived to become a servant in the royal kitchen and later king's falconer.
She lived to see all of her male descendants either dying in battle, suffering execution, or being murdered, with the exception of her son Edward IV, who died of natural causes, and her other grandchildren of the de la Pole family, who were disposed of by Henry VIII.
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Twelve days later after an untidy campaign of marching and countermarching, the army led by Lincoln and Lovell met Lancaster's one great general, John de Vere, Earl of Oxford near Newark in a battle which history would name Stoke Field and, after initial success, the Yorkists were thoroughly and finally routed.
Many of the Irish were trapped against the broad current of the River Trent and its waters ran red with their blood for miles downstream, others fled towards Lincoln and were caught and hanged on gibbets all along the road to this spurious refuge, and in the centre of the city itself.
Lincoln, with Schwartz and his men, died on the field; the boy pretender turned out to be a commoner called Lambert Simnel and he was put to work as a scullion in the King's kitchens; but the most painstaking search among the bodies of the fallen failed to unearth the corpse of Francis Lovell.
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 Lambert Simnel — FactMonster.com
Little is known of his early life, but before 1486 he caught the attention of an Oxford priest, Richard Simon or Symonds, who trained him to impersonate Richard, duke of York, younger son of Edward IV, who is now thought to have died, or been murdered, while imprisoned in the Tower of London.
The plan was changed, however, and in 1486 Simon took Simnel to Ireland, claiming that he was Edward, earl of Warwick, another Yorkist claimant to the throne.
The first member of importance was William de la Pole,.
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 RoyaList Online - Royal Genealogy - John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln
John de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk
Edward de la Pole (son of John, Earl of Lincoln)
John was a supporter of the impostor Lambert Simnel, and was killed in the battle of Stoke, at which Lambert was defeated by Henry VII.
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 May 31st
Her brother, the Earl of Salisbury, was taken prisoner, and put to death after the battle; and her son Edmund, Earl of Rutland, a boy but twelve years of age, was captured when flying with his tutor from the fatal field, and cruelly murdered in cold blood by Lord Clifford, ever after surnamed the Butcher.
Her nephew, Sir John Neville, was killed at the battle of Towton, in 1461; and her nephew, Sir Henry Neville, was made prisoner and put to death at Banbury, in 1469.
Her youngest son, Richard III, was killed at Bosworth Field, in 1485; and her grandson, John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln, was slain at the battle of Stoke in 1487.
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 All about the Princes in the Tower by Russel Aiuto
The first, Lambert Simnel, claimed to be the Earl of Warwick, son of George, the Duke of Clarence.
The mastermind of this plot was probably John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln, a nephew of Richard III.
Since the Earl of Warwick, was alive and a prisoner in the Tower, it was clear that Simnel was an impostor.
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 Who was Lambert Simnel? in The AnswerBank: History
In 1486, Simon took Simnel to Ireland, claiming that he was Edward, Earl of Warwick, another Yorkist claimant to the throne held by the Lancastrian Henry VII.
It was led by John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln, who, eldest son of the Duke of Suffolk by Elizabeth, sister of Edward IV.
All the leaders - Lincoln, Lovell and Sir Thomas Broughton - either died on the field, or vanished.
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 Francis LOVELL (1º V. Lovell)
At the Earl's great castle of Middleham in Wensleydale, the boys received instruction in Latin, law, mathematics, music, religion, and the code of chivalric behaviour and etiquette.
Sir Francis fought under Richard during the king's darkest hour, the Battle of Bosworth Field on 22 Aug, where Richard was killed on the battlefield and the Crown taken by Henry VII.
In May 1487 he travelled to Ireland and then to England with John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln, and a force of German mercenaries in support of the Pretender Lambert Simnel.
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