[2] Katherine persuaded King Henry VI to take an interest in the boys, who were his half-brothers.
Edmund's wife Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry Tudor, had been a ward of Katherine's brother, William de la Pole, steward of the royal household.
There is a story about a slippery priest named Robert Colynson who managed to cheat her out of five pounds.
[3] Her abbey's water supply was ransomed by John Rigby of Cranbrook Manor in 1462.
Katherine de la Pole was annoyed at this and instigated work to find an alternative and independent supply from their own spring.