POLE, John de la (c.1385-c.1439), of Hartington, Derbys. and Alstonfield, Staffs.

Family and Education

b. c.1385, s. and h. of Sir John de la Pole† of Hartington and Alstonfield by his w. Isabel (fl.1436). She was assessed on an income of £26 p.a. in the tax returns of 1436: E179/240/266. Her survival diminished the MP’s income, as too may have provision for his yr. brothers, Nicholas and George. In 1426 Nicholas attested his election to Parliament, but the brothers may have been on less friendly terms in 1427 when John entered into a bond in £100 to him: C219/13/4; Derbys. RO, Every of Egginton mss, D5236/15/5. On 13 Dec. 1435 George surrendered his interest in a small estate in Aylestone (Leics.), perhaps lands settled upon him by their father, to the Babthorpes: E159/212, commissiones Mich. m. Elizabeth, da. of Sir Nicholas Longford (d.1401) of Longford, Derbys., and Withington, Lancs., by Margery or Margaret (fl.1429), da. and coh. of Sir Alfred Sulney† of Newton Solney and Pinxton, Derbys., Trans. Lancs. and Cheshire Antiq. Soc. lxxxvi. 61. at least 4s. 1da. Dist. 1430, 1439.

Offices Held

Attestor, parlty. elections, Derbys. 1414 (Apr.), 1414 (Nov.), 1421 (May), 1422, 1423, 1429, 1433, 1437.

Commr. Cheshire, Derbys., Staffs. Mar. 1406 – Aug. 1436.

J.p. Derbys. by June 1428-Apr. 1439. He was appointed as a j.p. before he first appears on the enrolled comms. He sat for two days between Oct. 1425 and June 1428, and thereafter, although never named to the quorum, became one of the more active j.p.s.: S.M. Wright, Derbys. Gentry (Derbys. Rec. Soc. viii), 252.

Parlimentarian

POLE, John de la (c.1385-c.1439), of Hartington, Derbys. and Alstonfield, Staffs.

Main residences: Hartington, Derbys.; Alstonfield, Staffs.

Author

S.J.P.

Volume

Commons 1422-1461

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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