William de La Pole, 1st Duke
of Suffolk 1396-1450
Born 16 October 1396 Cotton, Suffolk
Died 2 May 1450 off Dover (murdered)
Buried Wingfield
Married 11 November 1430 *
Alice Chaucer, daughter of Thomas Chaucer, of Ewelme and
Maud de Burghersh
Born circa 1404
Died 20 May 1475 (9 June 1475?)
Buried Ewelme
Child by (a) Malyne de Cay
"The nighte before that he was yolden (yielded himself up in surrender
to the Franco-Scottish forces of Joan of Arc on 12 June 1429) he laye in
bed with a Nonne whom he toke oute of holy profession and defouled, whose
name was Malyne de Cay, by whom he gate a daughter, nowe married to Stonard
of Oxonfordshire".
Hist. MSS Com.3rd Rep.,pp.279-280.
Source: Leo van de Pas |
