John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln

John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln (1462/1464 - 1487) was the eldest son of John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk and Elizabeth of York. His mother was the sixth child and third daughter born to Richard, Duke of York and Cecily Neville.

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1462 - 1464 - 1487 - John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk - Richard, Duke of York - Cecily Neville

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During the last year of the reign of his maternal uncle King Richard III, he was designated heir to the throne, being Richard's closest adult male relative in the Yorkist line. After Richard's defeat at the Battle of Bosworth Field on August 22, 1485, Lincoln was reconciled with the new king, Henry VII, but soon became impatient for power and tried to achieve it by supporting the claims of the boy pretender, Lambert Simnel. Lincoln was killed at the Battle of Stoke in 1487, at which the rebel army was defeated, and he was killed. In November 1487, he was posthumously attainted.

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King Richard III - Battle of Bosworth Field - August 22 - 1485 - Henry VII - Lambert Simnel - Battle of Stoke - 1487

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