Edmund de la Pole, 3rd Duke of Suffolk

Edmund de la Pole, 3rd Duke of Suffolk (* 1472 ; † April 30, 1513 in the Tower of London ), was a son of John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk , and his wife Elizabeth of York .

The English author Geoffrey Chaucer was one of de la Pole's great-grandparents , and two of his mother's brothers became kings of England .

His eldest brother, John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln , is said to have been from his uncle Richard III. who gave him a pension and the possessions of Lady Margaret Beaufort, have been appointed heir to the throne. But John de la Pole - instead of claiming the throne for himself - became a follower of Henry VII. In 1487 he changed his mind, joined the rebellion of Lambert Simnel and was killed in the Battle of Stoke .

After the death of his brother, Edmund de la Pole became the leading candidate of the House of York for the throne. Nevertheless, Henry VII let him live and even allowed him to inherit his father's title (1492), but he had to give up the duchy the following year. Edmund then married Margaret, the daughter of Sir Richard Scropes. Edmund continued to hope that one day he would become the last heir of the Yorks to the English throne. Therefore, he left England in 1501 and asked the German king and later Emperor Maximilian I for support. King Henry VII of England no longer watched these attempts at overthrow in 1504 and recognized Edmund from his remaining title as Earl of Suffolk . Then he signed a contract with the emperor, which assured him not to support any more English rebels. Since he could no longer expect any support from the emperor, Edmund turned to France, where he left a large mountain of debt in Aachen . After leaving his brother Richard as guarantor, he went to Belgium, where he was captured by Philip I of Castile and extradited to Heinrich. When his brother Richard finally played a leading role in France's war against England and Francis I recognized the de la Poles' claim to the English crown, Henry VIII had Edmund de la Pole beheaded in the Tower of London in 1513.

literature

• John Burke, John Bernard: The Royal Families of England, Scotland, and Wales, with their Descendants, Sovereigns and Subjects. London 1851, vol. 2, pedigrees CLXIX and CCI.
• Sir Bernard Burke: Ulster King of Arms, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire. London 1883, p. 441.
• Douglas Richardson: Plantagenet Ancestry. Baltimore 2004, p. 690.
• Douglas Richardson: Magna Carta Ancestry. Baltimore 2005, pp. 268-9.

Web links

• Ewelme - The fall of the de la Pole family at fordsfarm.co.uk

predecessor	Office	successor
John de la Pole	Duke of Suffolk 1492-1493	Title expired
John de la Pole	Earl of Suffolk 1492-1504	Title forfeited