Margaret (Scrope) de la Pole (abt. 1472 - abt. 1515)

Born about 1472 in Bolton, Yorkshire, England

Ancestors

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Biography

-Margaret (d.1515), married Edmund de la Pole (1472?-1513), 8th Earl of Suffolk, a claimant to the throne who was executed in 1513. For her will, see TNA PROB 11/18, ff. 44-5. Edmund de la Pole’s paternal grandparents were William de la Pole (1396-1450), 1st Duke of Suffolk (executed 1450), and Alice Chaucer (d.1475), the grand-daughter of Geoffrey Chaucer, author of The Canterbury Tales. At one time the Earls of Oxford owned the Ellesmere manuscript of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, which contains a ‘balade’ on the House of Vere by one Rotheley in a hand dating from 1450-1480. The de Vere ownership of the Ellesmere manuscript may have resulted from the fact that the 13th Earl’s wife, Elizabeth (d.1537), Countess of Oxford, was the sister-in-law of Edmund de la Pole (1472?-1513), grandson of Alice Chaucer;

Frances (nee Wyndham) Seyntclere is also mentioned in the will of her sister, Margaret (nee Scrope) de la Pole (d.1515):

Item, to my sister Seyntclere all my pearl.

Name

Name: Margaret le SCROPE

Birth

Birth:

Date: ABT 1472

Place: Bentley, YKS, England

Death

Death:

Date: 1515

Burial

Burial:

Place: Chapel of Minoress

Sources

• TESTAMENTA EBORACENSIA, Vol. III, pp. 297-9 - Richard Scrope

• THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES PROB 11/31, ff. 202-3 John Seyntclere