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John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln (c. 1460 – 16 June 1487) was a leading figure in the Yorkist aristocracy during the Wars of the Roses . After the death of his uncle Richard III, de la Pole was reconciled with the new Tudor regime, but two years later he organised a major Yorkist rebellion.
JOHN DE LA POLE, EARL OF LINCOLN. BORN: c. 1464. DIED: 1487. Son of John de la Pole and Elizabeth Plantagenet (sister of Edward IV) and had a claim to the throne as a descendent of Edward III. Brother of Edmund and Richard. Supported Lambert Simnel and was killed at the Battle of Stoke.
JOHN DE LA POLE, Earl of Lincoln (1464?-1487), born about 1464, was eldest son of John de la Pole, second duke of Suffolk, by Elizabeth, sister to Edward IV. He was created Earl of Lincoln on 13 March 1466-7, and knight of the Bath on 18 April 1475, and attended Edward IV 's funeral in April 1483.
On 13 March 1467 the de la Pole heir was created earl of Lincoln by Edward IV, and granted £20 p.21.fromthe issues, profits and revenues of that county.4 Lincoln’s career as a favoured nephew of the house of Yorkhad begun. The reign of Edward IV Lincoln was present at many of the great ceremonial occasions of King
JOHN DE LA POLE, second Duke of Suffolk (1442-1491), born on 27 Sept. 1442, was only son of William de la Pole, first duke of Suffolk (d. 1450). On 27 Nov. 1440 he was made joint constable of Wallingford and high steward of the honour of St. Valery, offices to which he was reappointed in 1461.
He was killed fighting against Henry Tudor’s army at the Battle of Stoke Field in 1487. John de la Pole was created Earl of Lincoln on 13th March 1467. John de la Pole was son of John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk and King Edward IV and Richard IIIs sister, Elizabeth of York.
John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk, KG (27 September 1442 – 14–21 May 1492), was a major magnate in 15th-century England. He was the son of William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk , and Alice Chaucer , the daughter of Thomas Chaucer (thus making John the great-grandson of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer ).
