PLE RICHARD DE PLATZ, 2nd baron, summoned to parliament, from 20 November, 1317, to 14 March, 1322. This nobleman was 8. at his decease in 1327, by his son, RICHARD DE PLAYZ, 3rd baron, but never summoned to parliament. This nobleman was found in the 8th EDWARD III., heir to John de Lancaster, of co. Essex; he d. in 1359-60, and was 8. by his son, SIR JOHN DE PLAITZ, 4th baron, but never summoned to parliament, who d. in the 33rd EDWARD III., leaving an only dau. and heiress, MARGARET, who m. Sir John Howard (his 1st wife), and was mother of SIR JOHN HOWARD, whose dau. and heir, ELIZABETH HOWARD, m. John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford, SIR GEORGE VERE, who d. in 1503, leaving a son and heir, Dorothy, m. to John Nevil, Lord Latimer: for the co- Elizabeth, m. to Sir Anthony Wingfield, K.G., and Ursula, m. 1st, to George Windsor, and 2ndly, to Sir The Barony of Playz, or Plaitz, is now in ABEYANCE between Arms-Per pale, or and gu., a lion passant, arg. HUGH DE PLESSETS, who doing his homage, in the April ensuing, had livery of the manors of Oxenardton, Kedelinton, and Stuttesdon, co. Oxford, which were of his mother's inheritance; the two former being holden of the king by barony, for which manors in the 48th HENRY III., he paid £100 for his relief. This feudal lord m. Isabel, dau. of John de Riparius, and dying in 1291, was 8. by his son, HUGH DE PLESSETS, who being engaged in the Scottish wars was summoned to parliament as a Baron, 6 February, 1299, but Dugdale gives no further account of the family. Arms—Arg., six annulets, gu., a chief chequy, or and sa. NOTE.-Hutchins, in his History of Dorsetshire, says, that JOAN DE PLECY, and heiress, who m. Sir John Hamelyn, EGIDIA HAMELYN, m. for her 2nd husband, Robert Ashley, SIR ANTHONY ASHLEY, Knt., of Winborne, St. Giles, left an only dau. and heiress, ANNE ASHLEY, who m. Sir John Cooper, Bart., from which marriage the extant Earls of Shaftesbury descend, and through which they inherit the manor of Upwinborne-Plecy. PLESSETS, OR PLESSETIS-EARL OF WAR- Earldom, jure uxoris, temp. HENRY III. Barony, by Writ of Summons, dated 6 February, 1299. Lineage. The first of this family mentioned is JOHN DE PLESSETS, a domestic servant in the court of King HENRY III., and a Norman by birth; who having served in the Welsh wars, was constituted governor of the castle of Devizes, in Wiltshire, and warden of the forest of Chippenham, in the same shire. In the 24th King HENRY's reign he was sheriff of Oxfordshire, and in two years afterwards he had a grant of the wardship and marriage of John Bisset; and likewise of the heirs of Nicholas Malesmaines. Certain it is that he enjoyed in a high degree the favour of his royal master, for upon the death of John Mareschal, who had m. Margery, the sister and heir of Thomas de Newburgh, Earl of Warwick, the king sent his mandate to the archbishop of York, the bishop of Carlisle, and William de Cantilupe, requiring them that they should earnestly persuade this opulent widow to take John de Plessets for her 2nd husband. Nay, so much did he desire the union, that upon Christmas-day in the same year, being then at Bordeaux, he granted to John Plessets, by patent, the marriage of this Margery, in case he could procure her consent; and if not, that then he should have the fine, which the lady would incur by marrying without the king's license. This course of the king's, however, prevailed, and his favourite obtained the hand of Margery de Newburgh, Countess of Warwick, and widow of John Mareschal, styled Earl of Warwick. De Plessets was subsequently constituted constable of the Tower of London, but not by the title of Earl of Warwick, nor did he assume that dignity for some time afterwards. He did, however, eventually assume it, for we find him so styled (31st HENRY III.) by the king in a license granted him, to cut down oak timber in the forest of Dene; ever after which he is called Earl of Warwick. His lordship was appointed in four years afterwards one of the justices itinerant to sit at the Tower, for hearing and determining such pleas as concerned the city of London; and at the breaking out of the contest between HENRY and the barons, he was constituted sheriff of the cos. Warwick and Leicester; but he lived not to see the issue of those troubles. His lordship d. in 1263; not having had issue by the Countess of Warwick, the Earldom of Warwick passed at her ladyship's decease to the heir-at-law (see Newburgh, Earls of Warwick). But he left, by a former wife, Christian, dau. and heir of Hugh de Sandford, a son and heir, PLUGENET-BARONS PLUGENET. By Writ of Summons, dated 24 June, 1295. In the beginning of HENRY II.'s reign, HUGH DE PLUGENET had lands given him in the co. Oxford, and in some years afterwards was owner of Lamburne, in Berkshire. He m. Sibell, dau. and co-heir of Josceus de Dinant, and had two sons, Alan and Josceus. To one of whom succeeded, SIR ALAN DE PLUGENET, Lord of Kilpec, who, after the battle of Evesham, in the 49th HENRY III., was made governor of Dunster Castle, co. Somerset, and in three years subsequently, obtained a grant from his maternal uncle, Robert Walrond, of certain manors in the cos. Wilts, Dorset, and Somerset, with the castle of Kilpeck, &c., co. Hereford, and at the death of the said same. This Sir Alan de Plugenet, distinguishing himself in Robert without issue, in the 1st EDWARD I., had livery of the the Welsh wars, and being esteemed a person of wisdom, and of military knowledge, was summoned to parliament as a Baron from 24 June, 1295, to 26 January, 1297. He d. in 1299, and was 8. by his son, SIR ALAN DE PLUGENET, 2nd baron, K.B., summoned to engaged in the wars of Scotland. He d. about 1325, leaving parliament, 19 December, 1311. This nobleman was constantly his sister, JOAN DE BOHUN, heir to the Barony of Plugenet, at whose decease s. p. in 1327, that dignity became EXTINCT. Arms-Erm., a bend engrailed, gu. POINTZ-BARONS POINTZ. By Writ of Summons, dated 24 June, 1295. Lineage. This family, and that of CLIFFORD, is said to have sprung from a common ancestor, PONZ, whose grandson, WALTER, derived his surname from the place of his abode, Clifford Castle, co. Hereford, and another of whose descendants was father of OSBERT FITZ-PONZ, from whom sprang HUGH POINTZ, who with his father, Nicholas Pointz, taking part with the revolted barons, had his lands, in the 17th JOHN, in the cos. of Somerset, Dorset, and Gloucester, seized by the crown, and given to Godfrey de Crancumbe. He was afterwards imprisoned in the castle of Bristol, but not strictly, as his friends had permission to visit him, and to supply him with necessaries. This Hugh m. Helewise, dau. of William, and set, and was 8. by his son, sister and co-heir of William Mallet, of Carry-Malet, co. Somer NICHOLAS POINTZ, who, residing in Gloucestershire, had military summons from the crown to march against the Welsh, in the 41st and 42nd HENRY III., but afterwards joined the other barons who took up arms against the king. He d. in the 1st EDWARD I., seized of the manor of Carry-Malet, co. Somerset, and several other estates. He m. Elizabeth, dau. of William de la Zouch, and was 8. by his son, SIR HUGH POINTZ, who having been engaged in the wars of Wales, Gascony and Scotland, was summoned to parliament as a Baron by King EDWARD I., from 24 June, 1295, to 1 August, 1307. His lordship m. Margaret, dau. of Sir William Paveley, and d. in 1307, having had regular summonses to that year, and was s. by his son, NICHOLAS POINTZ, 2nd baron, summoned to parliament from 4 March, 1309, to 16 June, 1311. This nobleman was in the Scottish wars, before and after his father's decease. He m. 1st, Elizabeth, dau. of Eudo de Zouche, by Milicent, dau. of William Cantilupe, Lord of Bergavenny, and co-heir of her brother George; by whom he had the manor of Batecumbe, in free marriage. He is stated to have m. 2ndly, Matilda, dau. and heir of Sir John Acton, of Iron Acton, co. Gloucester, by whom he left a son, Sir John Poyntz, of Iron Acton, who m. Elizabeth, dau. and co-heir of Sir Philip Clanvowe, and was ancestor of the families of POYNTZ of Iron Acton, co. Gloucester, and of POYNTZ, of Midgham, co. Berks, whose last male heir was WILLIAMSTEPHEN POYNTZ, Esq., of Cowdray Park, in Sussex, and of Midgham, Berks, whom. Hon. Elizabeth-Mary Browne, sister and heir of Samuel, 6th Viscount Montagu, and d. leaving three daus. his co-heirs. He d. in 1312, and was s. by his son, HUGH POINTZ, 3rd baron, K. B., summoned to parliament, from 20 November, 1317, to 24 February, 1343. This nobleman was 8. by his son, SIR NICHOLAS POINTZ, 4th baron, but never summoned to parliament. This nobleman m. Alianore, dau. of Sir John Erleigh, Knt., and had two daus., viz., AVICIA, m. to John Barry, and had a son John, who d. s. p. At his lordship's death the Barony of Pointz, fell into ABEYANCE Arms-Barry of eight, or, and gu. POLE BARONS DE LA POLE, EARLS OF Barony, by Writ of Summons, dated 20 January, 1366. Lineage. The founder of this family, which eventually attained such an exalted station, was WILLIAM DE LA POLE, an opulent merchant at Kingstonupon-Hull, who left two sons, WILLIAM, of whom presently. Richard, to whom King EDWARD III., in the 11th year of his reign, gave, "for his extraordinary merits," £1,000 sterling, out of the exchequer. This Richard left a son and heir, WILLIAM, who m. Margaret, sister and heiress of John Peverel, of Castle Ashby, co. Northumberland, and had a son and heir, MICHAEL DE LA POLE, had, in the lifetime of his father, a grant in reversion, of £70 a-year, to himself and his heirs from EDWARD III., in consideration of that opulent person's services, whom the king denominated his "Beloved Merchant;" which annuity, William, his father, and Richard, his uncle, had previously enjoyed. This Michael de la Pole, despite of Walsingham's observation, "That as a merchant himself and the son of a merchant, he was better versed in merchandize, than skilled in martial matters;" was an eminent soldier, and distinguished himself in the French wars, at the close of EDWARD III.'s reign, when he served immediately under the Black Prince. In the 1st year of RICHARD II., he accompanied John, Duke of Lancaster, then called King of Castile, in his voyage to sea; and the same year had the chief command of all the king's fleet to the northward; in which his own retinue were 140 men-at-arms, 140 archers, one banneret, eight knights and 130 esquires. In the next year he was employed upon a mission to the court of Rome; and in four years after, constituted chancellor and keeper of the great seal-having had summons to parliament as a Baron since the 39th King EDWARD III. In the 8th RICHARD II., his lordship procured license to castellate his manor houses at Wyngfield, Skernefield, and Huntingfield, co. Suffolk, and to impark all his woods and lands in the vicinity. And in the 9th of the same monarch, being still chancellor he was created by letters patent, dated 6 August, 1385, EARL OF SUFFOLK, with a grant of 1,000 marks per annum, to be received out of the king's exchequer. In the parliament held at this period, a dispute is recorded as having taken place between his lordship and Thomas Arundel, bishop of Ely, in consequence of the king's having restored, at the earnest solicitation of that prelate, the temporalities to the bishop of Norwich. The chancellor opposing the Restoration, thus interrogated the bishop, when he moved that measure:-"What is this, my lord, that you desire? Is it a small matter to part with those temporalities which yield the king more than a thousand pounds per annum? The king hath no more need of such advisers to his loss." To which the bishop answered, "What is that you say, Michael? I desire nothing of the king which is his own; but that which belongs to another, and which he unjustly detains, by thy wicked council, or such as thou art, which will never be for his advantage; (I think) if thou beest so much concerned for the king's profit, why hast thou covetously taken from him a thousand marks per annum, since thou wast made an earl?" After this, in the same year, we find the earl, notwithstanding his being lord chancellor, retained to serve the king, being a banneret, in his Scottish wars for forty days, and obtaining a grant in consequence, to himself and his heirs male, of £300 per annum, lands, part of the possessions of William de Ufford, late Earl of Suffolk, deceased, viz., the castle, town, manor, and honour of Eye. In this year, too, he marched troops from all quarters to London and its vicinity, in order to resist a menaced invasion of the French. But he was soon afterwards impeached by the commons for divers misdemeanours and frauds, particularly for purchasing lands, while chancellor, “in deception of the king," and being found guilty was sentenced to death and forfeiture. Upon the dissolution of parliament, JOHN, who left, by Joane, his wife, sister and heiress of however, he seems, through the protection of the king, to have John, Lord Cobham, an only dau. and heiress, JOANE, who m. Reginald Braybroke, and had a dau. and JOANE BRAYBROKE, m. to Thomas Broke, who became The elder son, WILLIAM DE LA POLE, was, like his father, a merchant, at Kingston-upon-Hull, and mayor of that borough. In the 10th King EDWARD III., this William contracted to furnish the army in Scotland, with wine, salt, and other provisions, but losing part of the cargo, in the transmission to Berwick-upon-Tweed, he had an allowance for the same in passing his accounts. In three years afterwards, being a person of great opulence, he was enabled to advance the sum of £1,000, in gold, to the king, who then lay at Antwerp: for which important service, set his foes for the moment at defiance, and to have relinquished the chancellorship only. But subsequently, the storm again gathering, he fled the kingdom with Robert de Vere, Duke of Ireland, and repairing to Calais, approached the castle, of which his brother, Edmund de la Pole, was captain, in the disguise of a Flemish poulterer, having shaved his head and beard; but it is said that Edmund refused him admission without the previous permission of William de Beauchamp, the governor. "Brother," said the captain of the castle, "you must know that I dare not be false to the king of England for the sake of any kindred whatsoever; nor admit you in without the privity of William de Beauchamp, governor of this town." Whether this be true or false, certain it is that the earl never afterwards came back to England, but d. at Paris, an outlaw, in 1388, his dignities having previously fallen under the outlawry. His lord SIR MICHAEL DE LA POLE, b. 1368, in the 21st RICHARD II., obtained the annulment of the judgment against his father; and upon the accession of King HENRY IV. was fully restored to the castle, manor, and honour of Eye, with the other lands of the late lord, as also to the EARLDOM OF SUFFOLK, with a reversionary proviso, that those lands and honours should, in default of his male issue, devolve upon the male heir of his deceased father. This nobleman, who spent his time chiefly in the French wars, d. 14 September, 1415, at the siege of Harfleur. His lordship m. Lady Catherine de Stafford, dau. of Hugh, 2nd Earl of Stafford, and left (with three daus., Katherine, abbess of Barking, Elizabeth, m, to John de Foix, Earl of Kendal, and Isabel, m. to Thomas, Lord Morley) four sons, MICHAEL, WILLIAM, Thomas, and John (Sir). The eldest MICHAEL DE LA POLE, 8. as 3rd Earl of Suffolk, but this gallant nobleman lost his life within a month of his accession to the title, at the battle of Agincourt. 25 October, 1415. He m. Lady Elizabeth Mowbray, dau. of Thomas, Earl Marshal (widow of Nicholas, Lord Audley, and John, Lord Beaumont), and had three daus., who all d. s. p. At the decease of his lordship the Barony of De la Pole and the Earldom of Suffolk devolved on his brother, WILLIAM DE LA POLE, 4th Earl of Suffolk, who, in the 6th King HENRY V., making proof of his age, had livery of his inheritance, his homage being respited. This nobleman was actively engaged in the glorious wars of that monarch, and, for his eminent services, was made a knight of the Garter. At the death of King HENRY, his lordship was left in France with the Earl of Salisbury, to defend the castles and towns which had fallen to the English arms, and in the 1st year of King HENRY VI., his two nieces, Elizabeth and Isabel, dying in minority without issue, and the other, Katherine, having taken the veil, his lordship inherited the entire property of his deceased brother, Earl Michael. About this period, the Earl, in conjunction with the Earl of Salisbury, achieved a great victory over the French at Verneuil, and continued for several years afterwards to sustain the British banner upon the same soil. In the 6th HENRY VI. his lordship, with his companion in arms, Lord Salisbury, invested Orleans, and the latter nobleman being slain, the Earl of Suffolk was appointed captain of the siege, by the celebrated general, John Plantagenet, Duke of Bedford. In this affair he appears, however, to have been unfortunate, but he afterwards retrieved his reputation at Aumerle, which he carried with its fortress, after no less than twentyfour assaults. In the 9th of the same reign he assisted at the solemn coronation of King HENRY at Paris. In four years afterwards his lordship was deputed ambassador to Arras to treat of peace with the French, having license to take with him gold, silver, plate, and jewels, to the value of £2,000: and the next year was joined, in commission with the Duke of York, to proceed in the treaty. From this period the earl continued actively engaged as a military commander, or diplomatist, in the service of the crown, for which he was most amply compensated, by numerous and valuable grants (amongst which was the reversion of the Earldom of Pembroke, should Humphrey Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucester and Earl of Pembroke, the king's uncle, die without issue), until the 23rd year of HENRY's reign, when he was created MARQUESS OF SUFFOLK (14 September, 1444), by cincture with a sword, and putting a coronet of gold upon his head. This dignity was accompanied by a grant of £35 yearly out of the issues of the cos. of Norfolk and Suffolk. Being at this period lord steward of the household, the marquess was sent into Sicily, to perform the solemnity of marriage with Margaret of Anjou, dau. of Regnier, titular King of Sicily, and Duke of Anjou, as proxy for King HENRY VI., and to conduct the Princess into England. In the next year he was employed in negotiating peace with France, and he was soon after appointed lord chamberlain, and then lord high admiral of England. On the death of the Duke of Gloucester, in 1446, his lordship succeeded to the Earldom of Pembroke, and he was created DUKE OF SUFFOLK, 2 June, 1448. Which latter dignity is said to have been conferred upon him for advising the murder of the Duke of Gloucester; but be that as it may, his grace's prosperity en. dured not many years longer. For affairs becoming disastrous both at home and abroad, the popular voice became loud against him. He was charged with the loss of Anjou and Normandy, of having caused the murder of the good Duke of Gloucester, of rapacity, and of the numerous other crimes which are generally attributed to an unsuccessful minister, in a season of calamity, by a disappointed people. Parliament soon after assembling, he was regularly impeached by the Commons, of high crimes and misdemeanors, and committed prisoner to the Tower; but he was released within a month, and restored to the king's favour. This act of royal clemency exciting, however, universal clamour, the king was obliged at length to banish him the realm; with the intention of recalling him, however, so soon as the storm had abated. But the unfortunate nobleman was doomed to immediate destruction, for after embarking at Ipswich for France, he was boarded by the captain of a ship of war belonging to the Duke of Exeter, then constable of the Tower of London, called the Nicholas of the Tower, and being brought into Dover Road, was decapitated without further trial, on the side of the cock-boat. It is recorded of this gallant personage that he served in the wars of France, full twentyfour years, seventeen of which were in uninterrupted succession without once visiting his native country. He was at one time made prisoner, whilst only a knight, and paid £20,000 for his ransom. His grace was fifteen years a member of the privy council, and thirty, one of the knights of the Garter. It is said that he first m. privately, the Countess of Hainault, and by her had a dau., who m.- Barentine, but that afterwards taking to wife, Alice, dau. and heiress of Thomas Chaucer, a grand-daughter of Geoffrey Chaucer, the poet, and widow of Sir John Philip, Knt., that daughter was proved a bastard. All the duke's honours, including the old Barony of Delapole, which he inherited from his nieces, devolved on his eldest son, JOHN DE LA POLE, who, having m. the Lady Elizabeth Plantagenet, sister of King EDWARD IV. and King RICHARD III., was confirmed as DUKE OF SUFFOLK, by letters patent, dated 23 March, 1463. After which, in the 11th of the same reign, he was one of the lords then assembled in parliament, who recognized the title of Prince Edward, eldest son of that king, and made oath of fidelity to him. Upon the accession of King HENRY VII. his grace was made constable of Wallingford. The duke had issue, JOHN, who, by special charter, dated 13 March, 1467, was created EARL OF LINCOLN, and in the 2nd RICHARD III., was appointed lord lieutenant of Ireland. After this, he was declared, by his uncle, the same monarch, heir to the crown of England, in the event of the decease of his own son, Prince Edward. His lordship, in the next reign, having reared the standard of revolt, fell at the battle of Stoke, 16 June, 1487 (see De la Pole, Earl of Lincoln). EDMUND, who s. his father. Humphrey, a priest. Edward, archdeacon of Richmond. Catherine, m. to William, Lord Stourton. Elizabeth, m. Henry Lovel, Lord Morley. His grace, who was a knight of the Garter, d. in 1491, and was 8. by his eldest surviving son, EDMUND DE LA POLE, 2nd Duke of Suffolk. We find this nobleman, although one of the last persons of rank remaining of the house of York, and of a family previously devoted to that cause, engaged in the beginning of HENRY VII.'s reign, in that monarch's service; and so late as the 12th year, he was in arms with the Lords Essex and Mountjoy, against Lord Audley and the Cornish men, who suffered so memorable a defeat on Blackheath. But his grace being subjected to the ignominy of a public trial and condemnation (although immediately pardoned), for "killing an ordinary person in wrath," became so indignant that he immediately withdrew, without permission, to the court of his aunt, Margaret, Duchess of Burgundy (sister of the Kings EDWARD IV. and RICHARD III.), then the asylum for all the discontented spirits, who retained any feeling of attachment to the House of York, or had any cause of dissatisfaction with the existing order of things in England. He re turned, however, soon after, and excusing himself to the king, assisted at the nuptials of Prince Arthur, with Katherine of Arragon. But he again departed for Flanders, accompanied by his brother, Richard, and remained in exile, until treacherously delivered up to the English monarch, by Philip, Duke of Burgundy, upon an express stipulation, however, that his life should not be endangered. On arriving in England, he was immediately committed to the Tower, where he remained a close prisoner until the 5th HENRY VIII., when that monarch caused the unfortunate duke, solely from being a Yorkist, to be decapitated on Tower Hill, 30 April, 1513. His grace m. Margaret, dau. of Richard, Lord Scrope, and left an only dau., Anne, who became a nun, in the convent of Minoresses, without Aldgate, in the suburbs of the city of London. Notwithstanding the attainder of this duke, and the consequent forfeiture of his honours, the title, after his decease, was assumed by his brother, RICHARD DE LA POLE, as 3rd Duke of Suffolk, then living an exile in France. This gallant person commanded 6,000 French at the siege of Therouenne, when assaulted by King HENRY VIII., and he fell at the battle of Pavia, in 1524, where his heroic conduct extorted the praise even of his foes; and the Duke of Bourbon honouring his remains with splendid obsequies, assisted in person, as one of the chief mourners. Thus terminated the male line of this gallant and highly gifted race; and the Dukedom of Suffolk passed by a new creation to King HENRY VIII.'s brother-in-law, the celebrated Charles Brandon. Arms-Azure, a fesse between three leopards' heads, or. youngest brother, Reginald, dean of Exeter, to the throne, he was convicted of high treason before the Lord Audley (lord chancellor), acting as high steward of England, at Westminster, and was beheaded on Tower Hill, 9 January, 1539, when the Barony of Montagu became FORFEITED. His lordship left by his wife, Jane, dau. of George Nevill, Lord Abergavenny, two daus., his co-heirs, namely, Katherine, m. to Francis, 2nd Earl of Huntingdon, K.G., now represented by the MARQUESS OF HASTINGS, one of the coheirs of the Barony of Montacute. Winifred, m. 1st, to Sir Thomas Hastings (a younger brother of the Earl of Huntingdon), who d. s. p.; and 2ndly, to Sir Thomas Barrington, of Barrington Hall, in Essex, of which latter marriage, WILLIAM LOWNDES, Esq., of Chesham, Bucks, and WILLIAM SELBY LOWNDES, Esq., of Whaddon, in the same co, are the representatives, being as such co-heirs of the BARONY OF MONTACUTE. In the 1st year of PHILIP and MARY, these ladies being restored in blood and honours, the Barony of Montagu was then placed in ABEYANCE, as it so continues to the present period. Arms-Per pale, or and sa, a saltier engrailed, counterchanged POLE-EARL OF LINCOLN. By Special Charter, dated 13 March, 1467. Lineage. JOHN DE LA POLE, eldest son of John de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk, by the Lady Elizabeth Plantagenet, sister of Kings EDWARD IV. and RICHARD III., was created, in the 7th year of the former monarch, his father being then living, EARL OF LINCOLN. Upon the accession of his uncle, RICHARD, his lordship obtained several important grants of land from the crown, and was soon afterwards appointed lord-lieutenant of Ireland. Firmly attached to the house of York, the earl could ill brook the triumph of King HENRY VII., and accordingly, upon the accession of that prince, removed to the court of his aunt, Margaret, Duchess of Burgundy, where he entered zealously into the affair of Lambert Simnel; in promotion of whose pretensions to the crown his lordship returned at the head of four thousand German soldiers, under the immediate command of Martin Swart, and having first landed in Ireland, and proclaimed the Pretender there, made a descent upon Lancashire, whence marching towards Newark-upon-Trent, co. Nottingham, he encountered the royal army at Stoke, 16 June, 1487, where he sustained a signal defeat, and fell himself in the conflict. His lordship d. 8. p., when his honours became EX TINCT. POLE-BARON MONTAGUE. By Writ of Summons, dated 5 January, 1553. Lineage. The first of this family of whom anything memorable occurs is SIR RICHARD POLE, Knt. (son of Sir Jeffrey Pole, Knt., of Buckinghamshire, by Edith, dau. of Sir Oliver St. John, and aunt of HENRY VII.), who, being a valiant and expert commander, was first retained to serve King HENRY VII. in the wars of Scotland, and being a person highly accomplished, was made chief gentleman of the bed-chamber to Prince Arthur, and a knight of the Garter. He m. the LADY MARGARET PLANTAGENET (afterwards COUNTESS OF SALISBURY-(see Plantagenet, Countess of Salisbury), and had, with junior issue,* a son and heir, HENRY POLE, who, in the 5th HENRY VIII., had special livery of the lands of his inheritance, and in eight years afterwards was restored to the king's favour by the title of LORD MONTACUTE. But as to any creation, by patent or otherwise, nothing appears until the 24th of the same reign, when his lordship had summons to parliament as "Henrico Pole de Montacute." He attended King HENRY in the celebrated interview with FRANCIS, King of France, and was made a knight of the Bath at the coronation of Anne Boleyn. But in a few years afterwards being charged, along with the Marquess of Exeter, by his own brother, Sir Jeffrey Pole, with a design to elevate his For the particulars of the younger sons, amongst whom was the celebrated CARDINAL POLE, refer to Plantagenet, Countess of Salisbury. POPE-EARL OF DOWNE. By Letters Patent, dated 16 October, 1628. WILLIAM POPE, Gent., of Dedington, co. Oxford, d. in 1523, having had by Margaret, his wife, two sons, 1. Thomas (Sir), b. at Dedington, about the year 1508, the celebrated Founder of Trinity College, Oxford. He filled, during the reigns of HENRY VIII. and Queen MARY, several high official appointments, and from EDWARD VI received a grant of the manor of Tittenhanger, Herts. He m. three times his last wife being Elizabeth, eldest dau. of Walter Blount, Esq., and d. 8. p. in 1559. II. JOHN, of whom presently. 1. Alice, m. to Edward Love, Esq., of Eynore, co. Oxford, and was mother of Frances Love, who m. William Blount, Esq., of Osberston, and had a son, SIR THOMAS POPE BLOUNT, Knt., who eventually & to the manor of Tittenhanger: his descendant, CATHERINE, dau. and heiress of SIR THOMAS POPE BLOUNT, 2nd Baronet of Tittenhanger, m. 1731, the Rev. William Freeman, D.D., and left an only child, CATHERINE, wife of the Right Hon. Charles Yorke, and mother of Philip, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke. The 2nd son, JOHN POPE, Esq., of Wroxton, who d. in 1583, m. 1st, Anne Stavely, of Bygnell, and had by her a dau., m. in 1573, to Edward Blount, Esq., of Burton-on-Trent. He m. 2ndly, a dau. of Sir John Brocket, Knt., of Brocket Hall, Herts, by whom he had, with six daus., a son, WILLIAM (Sir), his heir; and 3rdly, a dau. of Sir Edmund Wyndham, by whom he had no issue. His only son, SIR WILLIAM POPE, K.B., of Wroxton, was created a Baronet of England, 29 June, 1611, and 16 October, 1628, raised to the peerage of Ireland, as Baron of Belturbet, and EARL OF DOWNE His lordship m. in 1595, Anne, dau. of Sir Owen Hopton, lieatenant of the Tower of London, and relict of Henry, Lord Wentworth, by whom he had two sons, namely, 1. WILLIAM (Sir, Knt.), b. in 1596, who d. v. p. in 1624, leaving three sons, viz., THOMAS, Successor to his grandfather. William, b. in 1624. * II. THOMAS, who 8. his nephew as 3rd earl. The Earl of Downe d. 2 July, 1631, was buried at Wroxton, and was s. by his grandson, SIR THOMAS POPE, Bart., 2nd Earl of Downe, b. at Cogges, in 1622, an active royalist during the civil war; who m. Lucy, dau. of John Dutton, Esq., of Sherborne, and had an only dau. and heir, Elizabeth, m. 1st, to Sir Francis-Henry Lee, Bart.; and 2ndly, to Robert, Earl of Lindsay. Lord Downe d. at Oxford, 28 December, 1660, and was s. by his uncle, SIR THOMAS POPE, Bart., 3rd Earl of Downe, b. at Wroxton, in 1598, who m. in 1636, Beata, dau. of Sir Henry Poole, of Saperton, in Gloucestershire, and had issue, * Mr. Warton inadvertently puts the supposition that one of these was grandfather of Alexander Pope, the poet. From the circumstance that their brother, Thomas, 2nd Earl of Downe, was 8. in the title by his uncle, it is clear that these two gentlemen must have d. without legitimate male issue. THOMAS, his heir. Anne, m. to Sir Bryan Boughton, Bart., and d. 8. p. Beata, m. in 1668, to Sir William Soames, Bart., and d. s. p. Frances, m. to Sir Francis North, the celebrated Lord Keeper, afterwards Lord Guilford, and d. in 1678, leaving issue. The heir-general of this marriage is BARONESS NORTH, present possessor of Wroxton. Finetta, m. to Robert Hyde, Esq, son of Dr. Hyde, bishop of Salisbury. The earl d. 11 January, 1667, and was 8. by his son, SIR THOMAS POPE, 4th earl, who d. unm. 18 May, 1668, when all his honours became EXTINCT. Arms-Per pale, or and az., on a chevron, between three griffins' heads, erased, four fleurs-de-lis, all counterchanged. POWER-EARL OF TYRONE. By Letters Patent, dated 9 October, 1673. Lineage. SIR ROGER DE LA POER, Knt., who accompanied Strongbow into Ireland, obtained for his services there very considerable territorial grants. Of Sir Roger, Cambrensis writes, "It might be said without offence, that there was not a man who did more valiant acts than Roger le Poer, who, although he were young and beardless, yet he shewed himself a lusty, valiant, and courageous gentleman, and who grew into such good credit, that he had the government of the country about Leighlin, as also in Ossory, where he was traitorously killed; on whose slaughter a conspiracy was formed among the Irish to destroy the English, and many castles were destroyed." Sir Roger m. a niece of Sir Amory St. Laurence (ancestor of the noble house of Howth), and left a son, JOHN LE POER, from whom descended NICHOLAS LE POER, who had summons to parliament as BARON LE POER, 23 November, 1375, and thrice afterwards, in 1378, 1381, and 1383, being the most ancient writs to be found in the Rolls' office of Ireland. This nobleman was s. by his son, RICHARD LE POER, 2nd baron, who was created Lord Le Poer, Baron of Curraghmore, by King HENRY VI., in 1452. His lordship m. Catherine, dau. of Sir Richard Butler, Earl of Ormonde, and was 8. by his son, PETER, 3rd Baron Le Poer and 2nd Baron of Curraghmore, who m. the dau. of Lord Decies, and left a son, RICHARD LE POER, who was re-created 13 September, 1535, Lord Le Poer, Baron of Curraghmore. This nobleman m. Catherine, dau. of Pierce, 8th Earl of Ormonde, and was father of JOHN, Lord Le Poer (More), b. in 1527. Of this nobleman, Sir Henry Sidney, in his account of the province of Munster to the lords of the council, thus writes: "27 Feb. 1575. The day I departed from Waterford, I lodged that night at Corragmore, the house that the Lord Power is baron of, where I was so used, and with such plenty and good order entertained (as adding to it the quiet of all the country adjoining, by the people called Power Country, for that surname has been since the beginning of Englishman's planting inhabitants there), it may be well compared with the best ordered country in the English Pale. And the lord of the country, though he be of scope of ground a far less territory than his neighbour is, yet he lives in shew far more honourably and plentifully than he or any other, whatsoever he be, of his calling that lives in this province." His lordship m. Ellen, dau. of James, 15th Earl of Desmond, and left, with a dau. m. to Hon. Peter Butler, a son and heir, RICHARD LE POER, Lord Le Poer, who m. Catherine, dau. and heiress of John, Viscount Buttevant, and d. 2 August, 1607, having had issue, 1. JOHN (Oge), his heir, who d. v. p. II. Pierce, of Monalargy, co. Waterford, who m. Catherine, 4th dau. of Walter, Earl of Ormonde. 1. Julia, m. in 1615, Thomas, Lord Kerry. II Ellen. m. to David Condon, chief of his sept. III. Elizabeth, m. 1st, to David. Viscount Buttevant; and 2ndly, Patrick, son of Sir John Sherlock, Knt., of Balina Clarahan, co. Tipperary. Lord Le Poer was s. by his grandson, JOHN LE POER, Lord Le Poer (son of John Oge, the late lord's eldest son, who was killed in his father's lifetime, by Edmund Fitzgerald, the White Knight, by Helen, dau. of David, Viscount Buttevant). His lordship m. Ruth, dau. and heiress of Robert Pyphoe, Esq., of St. Mary's Abbey, Dublin, and had issue, RICHARD POWER, Lord Le Poer and Curraghmore. This nobleman was advanced, 9 October, 1673, to the Viscounty of Decies and EARLDOM OF TYRONE. His lordship m. 1st, in 1654, Dorothy, dau. of Arthur, Earl of Anglesey; and 2ndly, 20 May, 1673, Catherine, dau. and heir of John Fitzgerald, Esq., of Dromana and the Decies, which lady m. 2ndly, Edward Fitzgerald-Villiers, Esq. By his 1st wife, his lordship had issue, and dying 14 October, 1690, was s. by his eldest surviving son, JOHN POWER, 2nd earl; at whose decease, unm., 14 October, 1693, in the twenty-ninth year of his age, the honours devolved upon his brother, JAMES POWER, 3rd earl, who m. 13 December, 1692, Anne, elder dau. and co-heiress of Andrew Rickards, Esq., of Dangan Spidoge, co. Kilkenny, by whom (who d. 26 September, 1729), he left at his decease, 19 August, 1704, aged thirty-seven, an only dau. and heiress, LADY CATHARINE, who m. 16 July, 1717, Sir Marcus Beresford, Bart., M.P., created 4 November, 1720, Baron Beresford, and Viscount of Tyrone, and advanced, 18 July, 1746, to the EARLDOM OF TYRONE. (See BURKE's Extant Peerage.) Upon the decease of James, 3rd earl, the Earldom of Tyrone, and all his other honours, except the original barony by writ, EXPIRED, but that devolved upon his dau., as BARONESS LE POER. Arms-Arg, a chief indented, sa. POWER-VISCOUNT VALENTIA. By Letters Patent, dated 1 March, 1620. SIR HENRY POWER, Knt., of Bersham, in Denbighshire, constable of the castle of Maryborough, knight mareschal of Ireland, governor of Leix, and a privy councillor, was raised to the Irish peerage, as VISCOUNT VALENTIA, Co. Kerry, 1 March, 1620. His lordship m. Grizel, dau. of Sir Richard Bulkeley, Knt. of Beaumaris and Cheadle, but d. s. p. 25 May, 1642, when the Viscounty of Valentia passed to Sir Francis Annesley, who, in 1621, had obtained a reversionary patent of the title. POYNINGS-BARONS POYNINGS. By Writ of Summons, dated 23 April, 1337. Lineage. In the time of King HENRY II., ADAM DE POYNINGS, of Poynings, co. Sussex, was a benefactor to the monks of Lewes. This Adam left three sons, Adam, William, and John; from one of whom, it is presumed, descended MICHAEL DE POYNINGS, who, in the 17th JOHN, adhered to the rebellious barons, and was 8. by THOMAS DE POYNINGS, who held ten knights' fees in Poynings, and had issue, two sons, Michael and Lucas. The elder of whom, MICHAEL DE POYNINGS, received summons 8 June, 1294 (22nd EDWARD I.,) to attend the king, with other great men of the time, in order to advise touching the most important affairs of the realm; and he had military summons immediately after, to proceed in the expedition against France, which had been the result of that council. He was likewise actively engaged |
