Family and Education
s. and h. of Sir John de la Pole (d.c.1390) of Newborough, chief steward of the duchy of Lancaster north parts, by Cecily, da. of Sir Peter Wakebridge (d.1349) of Wakebridge, Derbys., sis. and h. of Sir William Wakebridge (d.s.p. 1372). m. by 1401, Elizabeth (d. Aug. 1432), da. and h. of Sir John Laughton by Eleanor, sis. and coh. of Sir John Chandos (d.1370) KG, of Radbourne, 2s.J.C. Cox, Notes on Churches Derbys. iii. 212-15, 257-8; iv. 35, 56; CCR, 1389-92, p. 509; Wm. Salt Arch. Soc. n.s. iii. 149; Test. Ebor. ii. 126-7; Peds. Plea Rolls ed. Wrottesley, 111.
Offices Held

J.p. Derbys. 18 June 1394 – July 1444.

Commr. to enforce the statute on weirs, Derbys. June 1398; of inquiry, Cheshire Nov. 1399 (cattle thefts at Macclesfield), Notts. June 1403 (estates of the late Sir Hugh Annesley),He never received his commission (CPR, 1401–5, pp. 121, 239). Derbys. Mar. 1406 (defections to the Welsh rebels), Nov. 1406 (land of the late Henry Hervill), Beds., Bucks., Derbys., Hants, Leics., Northants., Notts., Rutland, Staffs., Warms. Mar. 1410 (royal rights and titles), Derbys., Hunts., Leics., Lincs., Staffs., Yorks. June 1413 (same), Derbys. Nov. 1413 (disorder at Swarkeston), Staffs. May 1416 (concealments in the honour of Tutbury),DL42/17, f. 208. Notts. July 1416 (counterfeiting), Derbys. Apr. 1431 (persons liable to contribute to a royal grant); oyer and terminer Mar. 1401 (poaching at Willington); to make arrests, Notts., Derbys. Jan. 1414 (lollards at large); of array, Derbys. May 1415, Oct. 1417, Mar. 1419, Aug. 1436; to raise a royal loan Nov. 1419, Notts., Derbys. Mar. 1430, Mar. 1431.

Collector of a tax, Derbys. Mar. 1404, Jan. 1436, of a royal loan Sept. 1405, Jan. 1420.

Escheator, Notts. and Derbys. 3 Nov. 1412 – 10 Nov. 1413, 4 Nov. 1418–23 Nov. 1419.

Justice of pleas at Chester 10 July 1421 – Nov. 1422, 14 Jan. – 29 Apr. 1427; dep. justice 3 June-3 July 1427.DKR, xxxi. 230; xxxvii. 592.

Main residences: Radbourne, Derbys.; Newborough, Staffs.
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Volume
Commons 1386-1421
Web Title

POLE, Peter de la (-d. c.1444)

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Oxford 1644
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