De La Pole, William
Other Business Names:
- De La Pole, Sir William
- De La Pole, Richard
- Wool Co
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Hull, City of Kingston upon Hull, Humberside, Yorkshire & the Humber, England
Sectors:
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Merchanting & trade, international & inland
General trading & trade
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Financial services
Private loan financing inc individuals & businesses
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Merchanting & trade, international & inland
Raw wool trading & trade
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Merchanting & trade, international & inland
Wine trading & trade, inc port & sherry
Notes:
(Sir) William de la Pole, d1366, was the leading merchant and financier at Hull from at least 1317, sometimes working in partnership with his brother, Sir Richard, d1345, until 1331. Leading citizens of Hull. Early on, dealt especially in Gascon wine and, later on, on a much bigger scale, in wool. From 1327 financier, inter alia, of the King on a massive scale, largely through borrowing from other merchants, the proceeds of which went to finance military campaigns. Leading participant in the creation of the unsuccessful Wool Company as a vehicle to finance the King's war with France in the late 1330s. Accumulated great landed estates in Yorkshire and Durham
Publications:
- De La Pole Family of Kingston upon Hull by Harvey, Alfred S
- Edward III's War Finance, 1337-1341 Oxford University, 1947 by Fryde, Edmund B
- English Merchants. Memoirs in illustration of the progress of British commerce by Bourne, H R Fox
- History of entrepreneurship. Medieval origins of a modern phenomenon by Casson, Mark, & Catherine Casson
- King, Parliament and Public Finance in Medieval England to1369 by Harriss, G L
- Last trials of Sir William de la Pole by Fryde, Edmund B
- Materials for the study of Edward III's credit operations, 1327-48 by Fryde, Edmund B
- 'Societies of the Bardi and the Peruzzi and their dealings with Edward III, 1327-45' in G Unwin (ed), Finance and Trade Under Edward III by Russell, Ephraim
- The De La Poles of Hull by Horrox, Rosemary
- The 'English Company' of 1343 by Sayles, G O
- Wealth of England. The medieval wool trade and its political influence, 1100-1600 by Rose, Susan
- William de la Pole. Merchant and King's banker by Fryde, Edmund B
- Wool Accounts of William de la Pole. A study of some aspects of the English wool trade at the start of the Hundred Year's War by Fryde, Edmund B
Groups:
Other Business Names:
- De La Pole, Sir William
- De La Pole, Richard
- Wool Co
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Hull, City of Kingston upon Hull, Humberside, Yorkshire & the Humber, England
Sectors:
- Merchanting & trade, international & inland General trading & trade
- Financial services Private loan financing inc individuals & businesses
- Merchanting & trade, international & inland Raw wool trading & trade
- Merchanting & trade, international & inland Wine trading & trade, inc port & sherry
Notes:
(Sir) William de la Pole, d1366, was the leading merchant and financier at Hull from at least 1317, sometimes working in partnership with his brother, Sir Richard, d1345, until 1331. Leading citizens of Hull. Early on, dealt especially in Gascon wine and, later on, on a much bigger scale, in wool. From 1327 financier, inter alia, of the King on a massive scale, largely through borrowing from other merchants, the proceeds of which went to finance military campaigns. Leading participant in the creation of the unsuccessful Wool Company as a vehicle to finance the King's war with France in the late 1330s. Accumulated great landed estates in Yorkshire and DurhamPublications:
- De La Pole Family of Kingston upon Hull by Harvey, Alfred S
- Edward III's War Finance, 1337-1341 Oxford University, 1947 by Fryde, Edmund B
- English Merchants. Memoirs in illustration of the progress of British commerce by Bourne, H R Fox
- History of entrepreneurship. Medieval origins of a modern phenomenon by Casson, Mark, & Catherine Casson
- King, Parliament and Public Finance in Medieval England to1369 by Harriss, G L
- Last trials of Sir William de la Pole by Fryde, Edmund B
- Materials for the study of Edward III's credit operations, 1327-48 by Fryde, Edmund B
- 'Societies of the Bardi and the Peruzzi and their dealings with Edward III, 1327-45' in G Unwin (ed), Finance and Trade Under Edward III by Russell, Ephraim
- The De La Poles of Hull by Horrox, Rosemary
- The 'English Company' of 1343 by Sayles, G O
- Wealth of England. The medieval wool trade and its political influence, 1100-1600 by Rose, Susan
- William de la Pole. Merchant and King's banker by Fryde, Edmund B
- Wool Accounts of William de la Pole. A study of some aspects of the English wool trade at the start of the Hundred Year's War by Fryde, Edmund B