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Alicia de la Pole, duquesa de Suffolk (1404–1475) era una nieta del poeta inglés Geoffrey Chaucer. Casada tres veces, con el tiempo se convirtió en Dama de la Más Noble Orden de la Jarretera. Vida. Alicia (Alice) nació como Alicia Chaucer, hija de Thomas Chaucer y Matilda Burghersh.
30 de may. de 2017 · The search for Alice de la Pole at Ewelme church reveals more than you might expect - including Jerome K Jerome and, on the way, an RAF station.
By William de la Pole she had a son: John de la Pole (1442–1492) who married Elizabeth of York, making him the brother-in-law of two kings, Edward IV and Richard III. John became 2nd Duke of Suffolk in 1463. Career. Alice was a lady-in-waiting to Margaret of Anjou in 1445, and a patron of the arts. Patron of art
The story of the de la Pole family – from ‘rags to rags’ over 6 generations between 1290 and 1525, is evidence that there were ways to escape the rigidity of medieval society. Their history is also evidence of the dangerous times in which they lived, and the curse of the blood of York.
Alice Chaucer served as the supervisor of her husband’s will. He left her half of his net goods, 1,000 marks in gold, and 3,000 marks in jewellery and plate, as well as the revenues of his Norman lands as long as they could be collected. William de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk, took up Salisbury’s command in France.
Alice Chaucer’s Tomb. Alice de la Pole’s tomb is cut entirely of alabaster and is of a unique design. The upper section is a conventional, solid tomb chest, decorated with figures of angels set under canopies. Supported on this is a full length effigy of the Duchess, lying beneath a complex canopy.
13 de jul. de 2018 · Alice de la Pole, from her tomb at Ewelme Parish Church, Oxfordshire ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Chaucer,_Duchess_of_Suffolk#/media/File:Alice_de_la_Pole.jpg. In the wooded village of Ewelme in Oxfordshire, we discover an elaborate church monument incorporating a cadaver tomb at St Mary’s Church.
