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From: Tim Powys-Lybbe <>
Subject: Re: Pole of radbourne ancestry
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 10:13:52 +0100
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In message of 31 Mar, (bernie) wrote:

> I am descended from a branch of the Poles of Radbourne. I have been
> able to trace this family back to the father of John de la Pole of
> Neuborough, Staffs, c. 1350.
>
> Has anyone any evidence to suggest that this family can be connected
> to the De La Poles of Hull ? Rosemary Horrox in her booklet "the De La
> Poles of Hull" gives no evidence to suggest as such, but this was
> written some time ago - has anyone made any further discoveries since
> then? From these same De La Poles were descended the allegedly
> notorious Dukes of Suffolk. How notorious were they?

No idea.

> Are the Radbourne Poles also related to Sir Richard Pole, husband of
> Margaret Plantagenet, Countess of Salisbury? (his father was Geoffrey
> of Medmenham, but somewhere I read that he was born in the Worrall,
> Cheshire).

These "Poles" spelt and almost certainly pronounced themselves Poole and
were probably from the Welshpool (hence "Poole") area of Wales and came
over with Owen Tudor, the latter being the second husband of Katherine
de Valois, Henry V's widow. The earlier history of the Pooles is
suggested by Arthur Plaisted in his "The Manor and Parish Records of
Medmenham, Bucks", pub Longmans 1925, to be descended from prominent
Welsh families but the evidence was lacking so I've ignored it.

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Tim Powys-Lybbe
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