Richard De la Pole "The White Rose" - Last Yorkist Claimant to English Throne
Portrait of Richard De la Pole (said to have been commissioned in early 1520s) Background: He was a pretender to the English crown . Commonly nicknamed "White Rose", he was the last Yorkist claimant to actively and openly seek the crown of England. He lived in exile after many of his relatives were executed, becoming allied with Louis XII of France in the War of the League of Cambrai . Louis saw him as a more favourable ally and prospect for an English king than Henry VIII . Richard was the seventh and youngest son of John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk and his wife Elizabeth of York . His mother was the second of the three surviving daughters of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York and Cecily Neville . She was a younger sister to Edward IV of England , as well as Edmund, Earl of Rutland and Anne of York, Duchess of Exeter , and an older sister to Margar...
