Sir Edmund de la Pole was an English

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 knight

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 and Captain of Calais.

He was the second son of Sir William de la Pole of Hull and younger brother of Michael de la Pole, 1st Earl of Suffolk

Michael de la Pole, 1st Earl of Suffolk

Michael de la Pole, 1st Baron de la Pole, later 1st Earl of Suffolk was an English financier and Lord Chancellor of England.- Life :...

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He was Captain of Calais castle and controller of the town from 1384 to 1388.

He served as High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire for 1389 and a JP from 1390. He was knight of the shire (MP) for Buckinghamshire

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 in 1376 and 1383 and Cambridgeshire

Cambridgeshire (UK Parliament constituency)

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 in 1395.

By his first wife Elizabeth de Haudlo, daughter of Richard de Haudlo and sister of Edmund de Haudlo of Boarstall

Boarstall

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, Buckinghamshire

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, and of Hadlow

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, Kent

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, he had Elizabeth de la Pole (14 July 1362 - 14 December 1403), who married Sir Ingram Bruyn of South Ockendon

South Ockendon

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, Essex

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 (Titchfield

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, Hampshire

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, 6 December 1353 - 12 August 1400, buried South Ockendon, Essex), grandson of Maurice le Brun, 1st Baron Brun

Maurice le Brun, 1st Baron Brun

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. His second wife was Maud, daughter of John Lovett, with whom he had a son, Walter, who became Constable of Ireland.

He died on 3 August 1419 at his seat at Boarstall, Buckinghamshire.