Titular Duke of Suffolk and Earl of Lincoln. Nicknamed the "White Rose." Richard's outstanding quality was his gallantry as a soldier.
Son of Sir John de la Pole and his second wife, Elizabeth Plantagenet. Grandson of Sir William de la Pole and Alice Chaucer, Sir Richard Plantagenet and Cecily de Neville. Richard was born before 1500.
In 1501, his family was under suspicion of conspiracy and treason, Richard and his older brother, Edmund, fled abroad. In Calais, they ran into Sir James Tyrrell, the husband of a relative, Anne Arundel, who was eventually arrested in 1502, tired and executed 06 May as their accomplice. The brothers then proceeded to the court of their aunt, Margaret, the Duchess of Burgundy. The Emperor Maximilian would not give them any support due to the Treaty of Augsberg, but allowed them to settle in Aix-la-Chapelle until Richard was formally attainted by King Henry VII in 1504. From there, Richard went to Hungary, where King Ladislaus allowed him a pension, then to the services of King Louis XII of France who granted Richard a pension of 6,000 crowns. Richard commanded a band of German mercenaries in an unsuccessful invasion of Navarre in 1512, led troops against the English at the Siege of Therouanne in 1513, and led 12,000 men in Normandy to prepare against the English in 1514.
England and France finally made peace, sealed with the marriage between King Henry VIII's sister, Mary, to King Louis XII, who gave Richard letters of safe conduct. Richard secretly visited the new king, Francois, at Paris, traveled through Venice and Milan, Bohemia, and settled again in Metz in 1519, living in a magnificent rented mansion with his pensions, and introduced horse racing to Metz. The life there ended when he seduced the wife of a local goldsmith, creating a public scandal, and he removed to Toul until 1522.
When England and France resumed their wars, Richard backed King Francois, accompanying John Stuart, the Duke of Albany to Brittany to prepare for an English invasion. They went their separate ways 21 Sept 1523, Richard off to Switzerland to recruit mercenaries, and joined up again at the Siege of Marseilles. Richard as with King Francois at the Battle of Pavia, where Richard was slain, and buried at the Augustine Priory at Pavia.
Richard produced an illegitimate daughter, Marguerite, possibly with the goldsmith's wife, Madame Sebille, who would marry Sibeud de Brenieu, and become a lady of honour to the Queen of Navarre.
Son of Sir John de la Pole and his second wife, Elizabeth Plantagenet. Grandson of Sir William de la Pole and Alice Chaucer, Sir Richard Plantagenet and Cecily de Neville. Richard was born before 1500.
In 1501, his family was under suspicion of conspiracy and treason, Richard and his older brother, Edmund, fled abroad. In Calais, they ran into Sir James Tyrrell, the husband of a relative, Anne Arundel, who was eventually arrested in 1502, tired and executed 06 May as their accomplice. The brothers then proceeded to the court of their aunt, Margaret, the Duchess of Burgundy. The Emperor Maximilian would not give them any support due to the Treaty of Augsberg, but allowed them to settle in Aix-la-Chapelle until Richard was formally attainted by King Henry VII in 1504. From there, Richard went to Hungary, where King Ladislaus allowed him a pension, then to the services of King Louis XII of France who granted Richard a pension of 6,000 crowns. Richard commanded a band of German mercenaries in an unsuccessful invasion of Navarre in 1512, led troops against the English at the Siege of Therouanne in 1513, and led 12,000 men in Normandy to prepare against the English in 1514.
England and France finally made peace, sealed with the marriage between King Henry VIII's sister, Mary, to King Louis XII, who gave Richard letters of safe conduct. Richard secretly visited the new king, Francois, at Paris, traveled through Venice and Milan, Bohemia, and settled again in Metz in 1519, living in a magnificent rented mansion with his pensions, and introduced horse racing to Metz. The life there ended when he seduced the wife of a local goldsmith, creating a public scandal, and he removed to Toul until 1522.
When England and France resumed their wars, Richard backed King Francois, accompanying John Stuart, the Duke of Albany to Brittany to prepare for an English invasion. They went their separate ways 21 Sept 1523, Richard off to Switzerland to recruit mercenaries, and joined up again at the Siege of Marseilles. Richard as with King Francois at the Battle of Pavia, where Richard was slain, and buried at the Augustine Priory at Pavia.
Richard produced an illegitimate daughter, Marguerite, possibly with the goldsmith's wife, Madame Sebille, who would marry Sibeud de Brenieu, and become a lady of honour to the Queen of Navarre.
Titular Duke of Suffolk and Earl of Lincoln. Nicknamed the "White Rose." Richard's outstanding quality was his gallantry as a soldier.
Son of Sir John de la Pole and his second wife, Elizabeth Plantagenet. Grandson of Sir William de la Pole and Alice Chaucer, Sir Richard Plantagenet and Cecily de Neville. Richard was born before 1500.
In 1501, his family was under suspicion of conspiracy and treason, Richard and his older brother, Edmund, fled abroad. In Calais, they ran into Sir James Tyrrell, the husband of a relative, Anne Arundel, who was eventually arrested in 1502, tired and executed 06 May as their accomplice. The brothers then proceeded to the court of their aunt, Margaret, the Duchess of Burgundy. The Emperor Maximilian would not give them any support due to the Treaty of Augsberg, but allowed them to settle in Aix-la-Chapelle until Richard was formally attainted by King Henry VII in 1504. From there, Richard went to Hungary, where King Ladislaus allowed him a pension, then to the services of King Louis XII of France who granted Richard a pension of 6,000 crowns. Richard commanded a band of German mercenaries in an unsuccessful invasion of Navarre in 1512, led troops against the English at the Siege of Therouanne in 1513, and led 12,000 men in Normandy to prepare against the English in 1514.
England and France finally made peace, sealed with the marriage between King Henry VIII's sister, Mary, to King Louis XII, who gave Richard letters of safe conduct. Richard secretly visited the new king, Francois, at Paris, traveled through Venice and Milan, Bohemia, and settled again in Metz in 1519, living in a magnificent rented mansion with his pensions, and introduced horse racing to Metz. The life there ended when he seduced the wife of a local goldsmith, creating a public scandal, and he removed to Toul until 1522.
When England and France resumed their wars, Richard backed King Francois, accompanying John Stuart, the Duke of Albany to Brittany to prepare for an English invasion. They went their separate ways 21 Sept 1523, Richard off to Switzerland to recruit mercenaries, and joined up again at the Siege of Marseilles. Richard as with King Francois at the Battle of Pavia, where Richard was slain, and buried at the Augustine Priory at Pavia.
Richard produced an illegitimate daughter, Marguerite, possibly with the goldsmith's wife, Madame Sebille, who would marry Sibeud de Brenieu, and become a lady of honour to the Queen of Navarre.
Son of Sir John de la Pole and his second wife, Elizabeth Plantagenet. Grandson of Sir William de la Pole and Alice Chaucer, Sir Richard Plantagenet and Cecily de Neville. Richard was born before 1500.
In 1501, his family was under suspicion of conspiracy and treason, Richard and his older brother, Edmund, fled abroad. In Calais, they ran into Sir James Tyrrell, the husband of a relative, Anne Arundel, who was eventually arrested in 1502, tired and executed 06 May as their accomplice. The brothers then proceeded to the court of their aunt, Margaret, the Duchess of Burgundy. The Emperor Maximilian would not give them any support due to the Treaty of Augsberg, but allowed them to settle in Aix-la-Chapelle until Richard was formally attainted by King Henry VII in 1504. From there, Richard went to Hungary, where King Ladislaus allowed him a pension, then to the services of King Louis XII of France who granted Richard a pension of 6,000 crowns. Richard commanded a band of German mercenaries in an unsuccessful invasion of Navarre in 1512, led troops against the English at the Siege of Therouanne in 1513, and led 12,000 men in Normandy to prepare against the English in 1514.
England and France finally made peace, sealed with the marriage between King Henry VIII's sister, Mary, to King Louis XII, who gave Richard letters of safe conduct. Richard secretly visited the new king, Francois, at Paris, traveled through Venice and Milan, Bohemia, and settled again in Metz in 1519, living in a magnificent rented mansion with his pensions, and introduced horse racing to Metz. The life there ended when he seduced the wife of a local goldsmith, creating a public scandal, and he removed to Toul until 1522.
When England and France resumed their wars, Richard backed King Francois, accompanying John Stuart, the Duke of Albany to Brittany to prepare for an English invasion. They went their separate ways 21 Sept 1523, Richard off to Switzerland to recruit mercenaries, and joined up again at the Siege of Marseilles. Richard as with King Francois at the Battle of Pavia, where Richard was slain, and buried at the Augustine Priory at Pavia.
Richard produced an illegitimate daughter, Marguerite, possibly with the goldsmith's wife, Madame Sebille, who would marry Sibeud de Brenieu, and become a lady of honour to the Queen of Navarre.
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