This is the high-water mark of the family fortunes. The battle of Bosworth, and the accession of King Henry VII. a year later, altered everything. The Earl of Lincoln took up arms against King Henry on behalf of the pretender, Lambert Simnel, and was killed at the battle of Stoke in 1487. His younger brother, Edmund de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk, was considered a man too dangerous to be allowed to live and was beheaded by Henry VIII. in 1513; and his remaining brother, Sir Richard de la Pole, having fled to Italy, was killed in the battle of Pavia in 1525. =Sir WILLIAM DE LA POLE.= A merchant of Ravenserodd, who migrated to Hull. | +-------------------+------------------+ | | =Sir Richard de la Pole.= =Sir William de la Pole.= A merchant of Hull; A merchant of Hull, founder d. 1346. of the Hull Charterhouse and | first Mayor of Hull (1332–5); | d. 1366. | | =Michael de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk.= Mayor of Hull 1376, and Admiral of the King’s Fleets in the Northern Parts; Italian Ambassador and | Lord Chancellor of England; | d. 1389 in exile at Paris. | | =Richard, Duke =Michael, Earl of Suffolk.= of Buckingham and Fought at Harfleur, and Chandos.= died of dysentery, Sept. d. 1889. 18, 1415. | +-------------------------------------+---+ | | =Michael, =William, Earl of Suffolk.= Earl of Suffolk.= Commander of the English army Slain at Agincourt, in France; became =Marquis=, and Oct. 25, 1415. later =Duke, of Suffolk=; was accused of various crimes, exiled, and murdered at sea, 1450. | =John, Duke of Suffolk.= Married Elizabeth, sister of Edward IV. and of Richard III.; d. 1491.