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Arms of Chaucer, paternal arms of Alice de la Pole: Argent, a chief gules overall a lion rampant double queued or, as visible on her monument in Ewelme Church Alice Chaucer, Duchess of Suffolk LG (c. 1404 –1475) was a granddaughter of the English poet Geoffrey Chaucer.
Alice was the daughter of Thomas Chaucer, Speaker of the House of Commons, and a granddaughter of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer. As lords of the manor, she and her father had both lived at Ewelme Palace which once stood in the village. Ewelme School is said to be the oldest school building in the UK still in use as a local authority school. [8]
Deutsch: Ewelme,_Kirche_St_Mary_the_Virgin,_Alice-Grabmal. Church of St Mary the Virgin, Ewelme. North side of chest tomb of Alice Chaucer, Duchess of Suffolk]] (1404–1475), born Alice Chaucer, daughter of Thomas Chaucer (son of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer) and Matilda Burghersh. She married w:William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk (1396-1450).
Ewelme School. The events of the novel take place in the 15th century and primarily in the village of Ewelme in Oxfordshire, England. It is part of a tetralogy, or a four-part story, each of which is self-contained. The story features the village school, built by Alice Chaucer, granddaughter of Geoffrey Chaucer, and the adjoining village church ...
By Alice (1404–1475), daughter of Thomas Chaucer of Ewelme, Oxfordshire, married 11 November 1430 John, 2nd Duke of Suffolk: 27 September 1442: 1492: Married 1st Lady Margaret Beaufort (no issue), 2nd Elizabeth of York (had issue) By Malyne de Cay, nun and mistress Jane de la Pole: c. Mar 1430: 28 February 1494: Married Thomas Stonor
Ewelme church (Perpendicular) is remarkable for the tomb of Alice, Duchess of Suffolk (1475), with tracery and gilded canopy, and that of Sir Thomas Chaucer (1434), ornamented with enamelled coats of arms. Here William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk, founded in 1436 the picturesque hospital and free school still standing.
John de la Pole was born on 27 September 1442, only son and heir to William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, and Alice Chaucer, [1] the granddaughter of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer. [2] John was therefore still only a child of seven when, on 7 February 1450, he was married to the six-year-old Lady Margaret Beaufort , though the Papal dispensation ...
Almshouses and school established at Ewelme in Oxfordshire by William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk and his wife Alice (née Chaucer). By the 21st century this will form the earliest school building in the United Kingdom still in use as a local authority school. [4] 1438