John de la Pole, earl of Lincoln

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John de la Pole, earl of Lincoln, was the eldest son of John de la Pole, 2nd duke of Suffolk, and Elizabeth, sister to King Edward IV. This lineage made him a Yorkist claimant to the English throne. After the accession of Henry VII, the de la Poles lived under suspicion. Lincoln joined Lambert Simnel's rebellion in 1487, which resulted in his death. His claim to the throne then passed to his brother, Edmund de la Pole.1

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Henry VII
Yorkist plots
…had the formidable support of John de la Pole, earl of Lincoln, Richard III’s heir designate, of many Irish chieftains, and of 2,000 German mercenaries paid for by Margaret of Burgundy. The rebels were defeated (June 1487) in a hard-fought battle at Stoke (East Stoke, near Newark in Nottinghamshire), where…
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…had the formidable support of John de la Pole, earl of Lincoln, Richard III’s heir designate, of many Irish chieftains, and of 2,000 German mercenaries paid for by Margaret of Burgundy. The rebels were defeated (June 1487) in a hard-fought battle at Stoke (East Stoke, near Newark in Nottinghamshire), where…
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United Kingdom
Dynastic threats
…Yorkist aspirations, and in 1487 John de la Pole, a nephew of Edward IV by his sister Elizabeth, with the support of 2,000 mercenary troops paid for with Burgundian gold, landed in England to support the pretensions of Lambert Simnel, who passed himself off as the authentic earl of Warwick.…
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…Yorkist aspirations, and in 1487 John de la Pole, a nephew of Edward IV by his sister Elizabeth, with the support of 2,000 mercenary troops paid for with Burgundian gold, landed in England to support the pretensions of Lambert Simnel, who passed himself off as the authentic earl of Warwick.…
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