Family de la Pole

First Generation

  

1.  Sir Thomas de la Pole¹ was born in 1378 in Grafton Regis, Northumberland, England.² He died on 8 Aug 1420 at the age of 42 in France.² Thomas was the son of Michael de la Pole, 1st Earl of Suffolk, and Katherine de Wingfield. Numerous sources state that he was the son of Michael, the 2nd Earl, and Katherine Stafford. He was granted Bliburgh in Lincolnshire, Gresthorp in Nottinghamshire and Grafton in Northamptonshire by 1359. Thomas was Lord Chancellor of England and was created Earl of Suffolk in 1385.

Sir Thomas de la Pole and Anne Cheyne² were married circa 1414 in England.² Anne Cheyne^1–2 was born circa 1375 in Fen Ditton, Coms, Thenford, Northamptonshire, England.² She died circa 1428 at the age of 53 in England.² Anne was the daughter of Nicholas Cheyne.

 

Thomas de la Pole and Anne Cheyne had the following child:

 

2 i. Katherine de la Pole, born 1416, Suffolk, England; married Miles Stapylton/Stapleton, 1438, Norfolk, England; died 13/14 Oct 1488, Prob Ingham, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom.

 

Second Generation

 

2.  Katherine de la Pole¹ (Thomas-1) was born in 1416 in Suffolk, England.¹ She died 13/14 Oct 1488 in Prob Ingham, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom.¹ Katherine's will was dated 7 July . 5 September 1488 and proved 23 January 1488/9. Her second marriage was to Sir Richard Harcourt, who died in 1486. Katherine was buried in Rowley Abbey, Oxfordshire.

Katherine de la Pole and Miles Stapylton/Stapleton were married in 1438 in Norfolk, England.¹ Miles Stapylton/Stapleton, son of Bryan Stapylton/Stapleton and Cecily Bardolf, was born circa 1408 in Ingham, Norfolk, England. He died on 1 Oct 1466 at the age of 58 in Ingram, Norfolk, England. He was buried after 1 Oct 1466 in Ingham Priory, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom. Sir Miles Stapleton was Lord of the Manor of both Ingham in Norfolk and Bedale in Yorkshire and Baron de jour of Ingham. He was Knight of the Shire for Suffolk and Norfolk and High Sheriff for both shires in 1440.

Miles married Elizabeth Felbrigg, daughter of Sir Simon Felbrigg of Suffolk and Margaret, daughter of Przemyslaw Noszak, Duke of Teschen and Glogu. The couple had no children. In 1438, he married Katherine de la Pole, daoghter of Thomas de la Pole and Anne Cheyne. They had Elizabeth and Jane/Joan.

Stapleton was summonded as a knight and Member of Parliament for Norfolk to attend the Privy Council in 1441-42.  He received a Royal Commission for the safekeeping of the seas in 1442. The following year, he and brother Bryan received the thanks of the Privy Council in connection with a riot at Norwich.

Miles' will was dated 4 August 1442 and proved 31 December 1466. He died 1 October 1466 and was buried in Ingham Priory.

 

Miles Stapylton/Stapleton and Katherine de la Pole had the following child:

 

3 i. Elizabeth Stapylton/Stapleton, born ca 1441, Ingram, Norfolk, England; died 18 Feb 1505, Niorfolk, England.

 

Sources:

1. Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 2004), 56-58 [Bardolf: 11. Miles Stapleton & Katherine Pole].

        2. Ian Fettes, Thomas de la Pole, Geneagraphie - Families all over the world; supplied by Fettes, [address for private use], 2007; Cites Complete Peerage & Plantagenet Ancestry.