Michael de la Pole Earl of Suffolk 
Michael de la Pole was born in 1367. Michael de la Pole's father was Sir Michael de la Pole Earl of Suffolk and his mother was Katherine de Wingfield. His paternal grandparents were Sir William de la Pole Earl of Suffolk and Katherine de Norwich; his maternal grandparents were Sir John de Wingfield and Eleanor Glanville. He had three brothers and a sister, named Richard, Sir Thomas, William and Anne. He died at the age of 48 on September 18th, 1415 in siege of Harfleur.Death Notes
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General Notes
Sir Michael de la Pole, b. 1368, in the 21st Richard II [1398] obtained the annulment of the judgment against his father and, upon the accession of King Henry IV, was fully restored to the castle, manor, and honour of Eye, with the other lands of the late lord, as also to the Earldom of Suffolk, with a reversionary proviso that those lands and honour should, in default of his male issue, devolve upon the male heir of his deceased father. This nobleman, who spent him time chiefly in the French wars, d. 14 September, 1415, at the siege of Harfleur. His lordship m. Lady Catherine de Stafford, dau. of Hugh, 2nd Earl of Stafford, and left (with three daus., Katherine, abbess of Barking, Elizabeth, m. to John de Foix, Earl of Kendal, and Isabel, m. to Thomas, Lord Morley) four sons, Michael, William, Thomas, and John (Sir). [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 441, Pole, Barons de la Pole, Earls of Suffolk, &c.]
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