Edmund (Pole) de la Pole (1470 - 1513)

Born 26 Feb 1470 in Wingfield, Suffolk, England

Ancestors

Died 4 May 1513 at age 43 in Tower of London, London, Middlesex, England

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Biography

Edmund Pole was a member of the aristocracy in England.

Edmund de la Pole (1472?-1513)

-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;

Sources

• Suffolk, Earl of (E, 1385 - forfeited 1504) Cracroft's Peerage
• TESTAMENTA EBORACENSIA, Vol. III, pp. 297-9 - Richard Scrope