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 SUFFOLK. 305 the Pari, of 138S (11 Ric. II.), be fell again under his father's attainder, whereby all his honours were (again) forfeited, but he obtained restoration of most of his father's estates, and was cr. 15 Nov. 1399, EARL OF SUFFOLK (no mention being made nf the Barony of Da la Pole) with rem. to the heirs male of his body, which failing, to those of his father. Ch. Commissi', of array, co. Suffolk, 1103 ; l'.C, 1-111 ; one ef the judges for the trial of the Fall of Cambridge, &c, in 1115, in which year he was in command of the rear guard of the army in France. He m. before Sep. 13S5, Catharine, 2d da. of Hugh (ue STAFFORD), 'id E.UIL OF STAFFORD, by Philippe, da. of Thomas (BBAOCBAMP), BaKL ok WARWICK, He d. of .1 flux, 14 Sep. 1415, at the siege of Harflenr. Will dat. 1 July 1415, directing his burial to be at Kingston upon Hull or at Winglield.(') His wife living 1 July 1415. V. 1415, 3. Michael (de la 1 "ole), Earl of Suffolk, 1st s. and c h., aged 03 at the death of his father in Sep. 1415, whom he sue. as " e P- Commander of the rear guard of the army in France. He m. about 1410, Elizabeth, 3d da. of Thomas (Mowbray), DUKE op NoBFOLK, by Elizabeth, da. of Richard ( Fitzai.an), E.viil or Arundel. Ho d. s.p.m.( b ) (a month after his father) 25 Oct. 1415, being slain at the battle of Agiucourt.( c ) He is said [but Query] to have been bur. at Ewelme, Oxon. His widow (/. before (1422-23) I Heu. VI. VI. 1115. 4 and 1. "William (de la Vole), Earl of Suffolk, Oct br. and h. male, b. 16 Oct. 1396, at. Cotton, co. Suffolk, being Maruuessate af!cd 19 :lt thc (le " t ' 1 of ^ br " iu 1415 ' kni 'J lded after tIwt l,ate ; q ' served in the wars iu France for no less than 24 years and for I. 1144. I? of these, continuously, without once visiting England; waa Admiral of the Duchv of Normandy, 1419; was in command at Dukedom. t i le victory of Verne-nil, 17 Aug. 1424 ; the siege of Orleans and I 144"^ Aliunde, 1429-30, being, at that date, Capt. Gen. of the English army on the Loire : el. K.G., 3 May 1 121 ; Cupbearer at the coron. of Katharine, the Queen Consort, 21 Feb. 1421 ; Guardian of the Cwtentin, &c, 1422: was cr. before 19 March 1427, and (apparently) again after II Sep. 1 435.C 1 ) COUNT OF DREUX, in Normandy. T.C, 1431 ; L. Steward of the Household, 1433-50 ; was in several important embassies to France, 1435, &c. : Ch. Justice of North and South Wales, &c, 1440 ; was cr. 27 Feb. 1442/3, KARL OF PEMBROKE, to him and Alice his wife, and the heirs male of their bodies, in reversion after the death s.p, of Humphrey (Plantageuet), Duke of Gloucester, the then Karl (which occurred 28 Feb. 1446/7, when the said patent took effect), with a like reversionary grant of the Castles of Pembroke, Tenby, Kilgareu, Arc., held with that Earldom. He had between these dates been proxy for the marriage, 24 May Mi l, at Paris, of Henry VI., with Margaret of Anjou, and had been cr. 14 Sep. 1444, MARQUESS OF SUFFOLK.(°) In 1117 he was made L. Great Chamberlain. ( a ) " Optimi et beniguiseimi nominls miles " [Gcsta. Henrici Quinti.] A sketch "from his elligy, after C. Stothard," is given in " Ihyle." ('') His three daughters, Catharine, Elizabeth, and Isabel, would have been coheirs to the Barony of De la Pole [1366] had it not been for the attainder of 13SS, affirmed in 1399. Of these, Catharine was living as a nun at Brusiard (1422-23) 1 Hen. VI., when her parents' estates were inherited by her uncle, Ear) William, while the other two are stated by Dugdale to have (/. iram. before (1421-22) 10 Heu. V. This probably was the case, " but Collins, in bis Pari. Precedents, asserts that Elizabeth in. John de Fois, Earl of Kendal, and d. p., yet Lodge in his I alsc Hot. Fin.', I, Hen° VI ( c ) " Juvenis tertii I. s.p., and (that) Isabel Hi. Thomas, Lord Morley, and (/. Wage of Ireland (vol. ii, p. 107), says she had issue {vide, m. 5)" [Banks's " Bar. Anrjl. Cone." under " De la Pole."] — septennii, fortis, audax et ugilis inter oniues curiales." ['Jesta. Henrici Quinli.l Drayton, in his ballad of " Aqincourt," meutious how "Suffolk his axe did ply." ( d ) Doyle. m The 4th Marquessate created in this Kingdom ; see vol. iii, p. 146, note "g,"suo Dorset." It was conferred with cincture of the sword, placing a gold coronet on the head, and with a yearly revenue of £35 out of the issues of the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk. '