Edmund de la Pole

Also known as: Edmund / sir Edmund de la Poole / sir Edmund the duke of Suffolks sonne · Family: Calais garrison · Role: captain of the castle · First appears: Richard II 40

Life events

• c. 1388 · Edmund de la Pole revealed his brother's secret arrival to William Beauchamp.(Richard II 40 · 📍 Calis)
  • With: William Beauchamp
  • “His brother doubting what might be laid to his charge if he shuld conceale this matter from the lord William Beauchampe lord deputie of the towne, streightwaies aduertised him thereof,”
• c. 1388 · Edmund de la Pole was imprisoned for disclosing his brother's flight.(Richard II 40 · 📍 Calis)
  • “so that (as some write) his brother being one, was committed to prison for disclosing him.”
• c. 1388 · Edmund de la Pole was released and returned to his command at Calis.(Richard II 40 · 📍 Calis)
  • “But yet bicause it should not séeme that he imprisoned him for that cause, he was shortlie after set at libertie, and returned againe to his charge at Calis.”

Richard II 40

• with William Beauchamp (Edmund de la Pole informed William Beauchamp about the earl's arrival, prompting the earl's return to England.) “His brother doubting what might be laid to his charge if he shuld conceale this matter from the lord William Beauchampe lord deputie of the towne, streightwaies aduertised him thereof, who tooke order that the earle should foorthwith be sent backe againe into England to the king”

Richard III 1

• sworn: Richard III “The same night, the king made seuentéene knights of the Bath, whose names insue: Sir Edmund the duke of Suffolks sonne”

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Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.