William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk (16 October 1396 at Cotton, Suffolk, – 2 May 1450), nicknamed Jack Napes, was an important English soldier and commander in the Hundred Years' War, and later Lord Chamberlain of England. He also appears prominently in William Shakespeare's Henry VI, part 1 and Henry VI, part 2. His murder is the subject of the traditional English folk ballad Six Dukes Went a-Fishing (Roud # 78).
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| - William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk (16 October 1396 at Cotton, Suffolk, – 2 May 1450), nicknamed Jack Napes, was an important English soldier and commander in the Hundred Years' War, and later Lord Chamberlain of England. He also appears prominently in William Shakespeare's Henry VI, part 1 and Henry VI, part 2. His murder is the subject of the traditional English folk ballad Six Dukes Went a-Fishing (Roud # 78).
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| - William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk (16 October 1396 at Cotton, Suffolk, – 2 May 1450), nicknamed Jack Napes, was an important English soldier and commander in the Hundred Years' War, and later Lord Chamberlain of England. He also appears prominently in William Shakespeare's Henry VI, part 1 and Henry VI, part 2. His murder is the subject of the traditional English folk ballad Six Dukes Went a-Fishing (Roud # 78).
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