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Alice Chaucer, Duchess of Suffolk LG (c. 1404 –1475) was a granddaughter of the English poet Geoffrey Chaucer. Married three times, she eventually became a Lady of the Most Noble Order of the Garter , an honour granted rarely to women and marking the friendship between herself and her third husband, William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk ...
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 ...
John was the eldest son of William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk and Alice Chaucer. [2] His maternal grandparents were Thomas Chaucer and Maud Burghersh. [3] Her father-in-law had served as the principal power behind the throne for Henry VI of England from 1447 to 1450. [4]
The unrest included the destruction of properties belonging to Alice Chaucer, Duchess of Suffolk. [ 66 ] [ note 16 ] The Duke of Suffolk himself fell from power and was murdered in April 1450. [ 68 ] In the following years, Mowbray's affinity , according to Richmond, committed "one outrage after another [and] the duke was either unable to ...
Alice Chaucer, Duchess of Suffolk; Thomas Chaucer; Miles Crispin; E. Edmund, 2nd Earl of Cornwall; G. ... William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk This page was last ...
In 1472 she was placed in the custody of her former lady-in-waiting Alice Chaucer, Duchess of Suffolk, where she remained until ransomed by Louis XI of France in 1475. [ 34 ] Final years and death
His paternal grandparents were William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk and Alice Chaucer. Suffolk was an important English soldier and commander in the Hundred Years' War, and later Lord Chamberlain of England. He also appears prominently in William Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part 1 and Henry VI, Part 2.
Earls of Suffolk (1385 creation) (6 P) Pages in category "De la Pole family" ... Alice Chaucer, Duchess of Suffolk; J. John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk;