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RICHARD DE LA POLE (d. 1525)

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 976 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RICHARD DE LA See also:POLE (d. 1525)  , pretender to the See also:English See also:crown, was the fifth son of See also:John de la See also:Pole (1442—1491), 2nd See also:duke of See also:Suffolk, and See also:Elizabeth, second daughter of See also:Richard, duke of 'See also:York and See also:sister of See also:Edward IV . His eldest See also:brother John de la Pole, See also:earl of See also:Lincoln (c . 1464—1487), is said to have been named See also:heir to the See also:throne by his See also:uncle Richard III., who gave him a See also:pension and the reversion of the estates of See also:Lady See also:Margaret See also:Beaufort . On the See also:accession of See also:Henry VII., however, Lincoln took the See also:oath of See also:allegiance, but in 1487 he joined the See also:rebellion of See also:Lambert See also:Simnel, and was killed at the See also:battle of Stoke . The second brother See also:Edmund (c . 1472—1513), succeeded his See also:father while still in his minority . His estates suffered under the See also:attainder of his brother, and he was compelled to pay large sums to Henry VII. for the recovery of See also:part of the forfeited lands, and also to See also:exchange his See also:title of duke for that of earl . In 1501 he sought the See also:German See also:King See also:Maximilian in See also:Tirol, and received from him a promise of substantial assistance in See also:case of an See also:attempt on the English crown . In See also:con-sequence of these treasonable proceedings Henry seized his brother See also:William de la Pole, with four other Yorkist noblemen . Two of them, See also:Sir See also:James Tyrell and Sir John See also:Wyndham, were executed, William de la Pole was imprisoned and Suffolk outlawed . Then in See also:July 1502 Henry concluded a treaty with Maximilian by which the king See also:bound himself not to countenance English rebels . Presently Suffolk See also:fell into the hands of See also:Philip, king of See also:Castile, who imprisoned him at See also:Namur, and in 1506 surrendered him to Henry VII. on See also:condition that his See also:life was spared .

He remained a prisoner until 1513, when he was beheaded at the See also:

time his brother Richard took up arms with the See also:French king . Richard de la Pole joined Edmund abroad in 1504, and remained at See also:Aix as See also:surety for his See also:elder brother's debts . The creditors threatened to surrender him to Henry VII., but, more fortunate than his brother, he found a safe See also:refuge at Buda with King Ladislas VI. of See also:Hungary . He was excepted from the See also:general See also:pardon proclaimed at the accession of Henry VIII., and when See also:Louis XII. went to See also:war with See also:England in 1512 he recognized Pole's pretensions to the English crown, and gave him a command in the French See also:army . In 1513, after the See also:execution of Edmund, he assumed the title of earl of Suffolk . In 1514 he was given 12,000 German mercenaries ostensibly for the See also:defence of See also:Brittany, but really for an invasion of England . These he led to St Malo, but the conclusion of See also:peace with England prevented their embarcation . Pole was required to leave See also:France, and he established himself at See also:Metz, in See also:Lorraine, and built a See also:palace at La Haute See also:Pierre, near St Simphorien . He had numerous interviews with See also:Francis I., and in 1523 he was permitted, in See also:concert with John See also:Stewart, duke of See also:Albany, the Scottish See also:regent, to arrange an invasion of England, which was never carried out . He was with Francis I. at See also:Pavia and was killed on the See also:field on the 24th of See also:February 1525 . See Letters and Papers Illustrative of the Reigns of Richard III. and Henry VII., edited by J . See also:Gairdner (2 vols., " Rolls See also:Series," 24, 1861) ; See also:Calendar of Letters and Papers, See also:Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII .

; and Sir William See also:

Dugdale, The Baronage of England (See also:London, 1695) .

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