Henrys adult opponents were dead or driven abroad. Henry wrote to Margaret, who in turn wrote to her son, reproving him for his "folly". Yesterday we travailed with the Lady of Salisbury all day before and after noon, till almost night. Sometimes the questioners were mild, sometimes roughly spoken, traitoring her and her sons to the ninth degree yet will she nothing utter. Margaret continued not uttering, or uttering no proof of treason. He is an English lawyer, eventually promoted to Chancellor and assistant to the King after Wolsey 's death. Her London palace, Le Herber, stood in a busy mercantile quarter, approximately where Cannon Street Station is now, and she rented out the tenements around as workshops, stables and an inn. Either her sons had not made her aware of their dealings, Fitzwilliam concluded, or she was an adept in brazen deceit. Margaret Pole was one of only two women in the 16th century to hold a peerage in her own right. Henry was able to play peacemaker. Her first son, Henry Pole, was created Baron Montagu, another of the Neville titles, speaking for the family in the House of Lords. More would have to either acknowledge the kings spiritual supremacy and marriage to Anne Boleyn, or he would die. She was now one of the richest people in England. In the end, he could not be persuaded. Hilary Mantel. Margaret's loyalty was to Katherine of Aragon and to her daughter Princess Mary to whom she was governess and godmother. May 28, 2015. Her mother, the great heiress Isabel Neville, died in 1476 after giving birth to her fourth child; this last baby, like Isabels first child, did not live. Susan Higginbotham. His desire for an annulment was now not merely to secure a legitimate heir; it was also spurred by his desire to marry Anne. Did she plot against the crown? In some versions, the plucky old girl refused to kneel at the block, and the headsman had to pin her down. (Edward would have had a better right to the throne as son of Richards older brother.) Although a jury of twelve men would have . More had already begun writing his History of King Richard III as well; it is considered the first masterpiece of English history and is wholly pro-Tudor. But Margaret herself was an ornament to Henry. Henry VIII married Catherine of Aragon in 1509 and Margaret was again appointed as one of her ladies-in-waiting. When Henry began to poll the European universities about the legality of his annulment, he chose Reginald to visit the Sorbonne, and had no fault to find with the way he carried out his mission. Eleanor was related through marriage to Lady Margaret Beaufort's extended family.) The next year, when her sons were mixed up with Buckingham, she was removed from that appointment, but later restored to it by 1525. She was a patron of the New Learning, like many Renaissance noblewomen; Gentian Hervet had translated Erasmus' de immensa misericordia Dei (The Great Mercy of God) into English for her. He was not prepared, as he saw it, to imperil his immortal soul by taking the oath that Henry required of all his people, and he died for his belief.. In May 1539 Henry, Margaret, Exeter and others were attainted, as Margaret's father had been. Margaret's mother died when she was three; her father had two servants killed when he thought they had poisoned her. In May 1515, More was sent to Bruges as part of a delegation arranged by Wolsey to revise an Anglo-Flemish commercial treaty. And when the English clergy were forced to acknowledge Henry as the supreme head of their church, More attempted to resign his office. But time and impatience had made him emphatic in his righteousness. Henry Courtenay och Margaret Pole och fngslades i Towern. With the accession of the young king uxorious, beautiful and benign England seemed to have entered a golden age: and at his coronation, all the spectators, and presumably Margaret Pole with them, with great reverence, love and desire, said and cried: Yea, yea!. Margaret was superfluous; curtly, Henry wrote her off as a fool. Margaret and Richard Pole had five children, born between about 1492 and 1504: four sons and the youngest a daughter. ODNB, "Reginald Pole"; "Geoffrey Pole". European rulers keen to destabilise England had promoted the claims of this plausible, glamorous young man, but by the summer of 1498 he was in the Tower, about to embark on the last act of his mysterious life. With Margarets female peers, there is a gap between what they say and what they do, what they are and what they appear to be. Margaret's own favour at Court varied. His eldest daughter Margaret married the lawyer William Roper in 1521, and More continued his practice of prayer and supervision of learning at his home. As Countess of Salisbury, Margaret managed her lands well and by 1538 she was the fifth richest peer in England. And so he was. She is the daughter of a duke and the niece of two kings, Edward IV and Richard III. Her heads. It did not matter. Henry Tudor had the real Warwick in custody, and was able to produce him, so the rebellion came to nothing. Pole, Reginald (1500-58). There are panel paintings of Pole in the following churches: There are stained glass windows of Pole in the following churches: On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. One of her children, Reginald Pole, would go on to become a cardinal, and then . Did she, as the regime alleged, burn the evidence that incriminated her? Get the best results here. When Catherine of Aragon gave birth to a daughter, Mary, Margaret Pole was asked to be one of the godmothers. Perhaps more than any other courtier of Henrys reign, More embodied the searching, troubled spirit of the early 16th century. Now he decided to seriously test his religious convictions. Margaret Pole, as she was now styled, was held in the Tower of London for two-and-a-half years. The nun sought out eminent supporters, especially those who, like Margaret and like Gertrudes husband, had a claim to the throne, and pressed on them the contents of her visions: unless he went back to his wife and to Rome, Henry would expire in torments. Birth Year: 1478. He collected books and rare objects, but he gave away his possessions freely as well. His lands and titles were thereby forfeited. The queen had suffered a series of miscarriages throughout their marriage; their only surviving child was the Princess Mary. He blundered badly, hacking at Margaret's neck and shoulders until she was dead. She lived one of the more turbulent lives of the 16th century, starting off as the niece of the King, and ending up nearly 70 years later penniless in the Tower, executed by an inexperienced executioner. Margaret's relationship with Henry VIII, must have been good. So yes, the Pole family were cousins to de la Pole family. Together, they had five children, but she was widowed in 1505. Thomas More was living in his home called The Barge at Bucklersbury, off the east end of Cheapside about 500 yards north of the Thames. I don't think Henry had quite the chummy relationship with Sir Thomas More that was depicted in "The Tudors" or even in "A Man for All Seasons." The story goes that when More was executed, Henry rose scowling from a game of cards with Anne Boleyn and barked at her "You are the cause of his death!" It was Mores execution far more than those of Anne Boleyn or Thomas Cromwell or Margaret Pole which established the kings reputation for capricious cruelty. His personal life remained placid and content. Her mother died after giving birth to a fourth child; that brother died ten days after their mother. Margarets uncle Richard of Gloucester became king in 1483 as Richard III, and reinforced young Margaret and Edwards exclusion from the line of succession. And as his own reputation grew in London, he attracted the notice of the all-powerful Cardinal Wolsey. The two men had first met in 1497 and remained close friends until Mores death. Here is an excerpt from Chapter 7, "Unheard-Of Cruelty", describing the trial and execution of Sir Thomas More. In the spring of 1536 the Boleyn family were destroyed, and the Pole family and other English grandees grouped themselves about the incoming queen, Jane Seymour. Her many fortified houses and castles, the number of tenants she could turn out, the belligerent propaganda from abroad all these brought the whole family into deep suspicion. Birth date: February 7, 1478. But if the weather turns nasty you up with an anchor and let it down where there's less wind, and the fishing's better. If Margaret played any part in the downfall of Henrys second queen, her role was so far behind the scenes that it has left no trace. Margaret Pole, Tudor Matriarch and Martyr. By 1527, the king was in his mid-thirties, and his wife six years older. A Bill of Attainder disinherited Margaret and her younger brother, Edward, and removed them from the line of succession. These are not consistent; and ifas he claimed at one pointPole rejected the Divorce in 1526 and refused the Oath of Supremacy in 1531, he received benefits from Henry for a course of action for which others were sentenced to death. Henry still hoped for Mores support. Her second son, Arthur Pole, had a generally successful career as a courtier, becoming one of the six Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber. After Richard III seized the throne, he sent Margaret to Yorkshire with her brother. Katharine was the kings true wife. Margarets brother was 24. Illustrated statistics ; Map ; Browse using this individual as Sosa/Ahnentafel #1 . Whatever her private feelings at this point, in public she was pragmatic and circumspect. An Exclusive First Look at Laura Carmichael as Maggie Pole in the Series Finale of The Spanish Princess Watch as she confronts Sir Thomas More. [2] As one of the few members of the House of Plantagenet to have survived the Wars of the Roses, she was executed in 1541 at the command of King Henry VIII, the second monarch of the House of Tudor, who was the son of her first cousin, Elizabeth of York. As part of his 'Random Histo. In 1537, after the split from the Roman Catholic Church proclaimed by Henry VIII, Pope Paul II created Reginald Pole who, though he had studied theology extensively and served the church, had not been ordained a priest Archbishop of Canterbury, and assigned Pole to organize efforts to replace Henry VIII with a Roman Catholic government. Lewis, Jone Johnson. Higginbothams narrative begins with this bungled beheading so either the jacket designer was in the dark about the contents, or someone at her publisher has a mordant sense of humour. There have been rumors of an alleged relationship with Lady Margaret (see the White Queen series, for example). She served later as a governess to Mary. I am no traitor, no, not I! Likewise, Henry became understandably angry at the papacys refusal to repudiate Charles. He had once served under Wolsey and knew More well. He wore many hats: chief diplomat, speechwriter, advisor. Birth City: London, England. Ursula Pole, married Henry Stafford, whose title and lands were lost when his father was executed for treason and attainted, restored to a Stafford title under Edward VI. Ursula Pole, Baroness Stafford the daughter of Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury and Sir Richard Pole. Please change your browser settings to allow Javascript content to run. She was beatified by the Roman Catholic Church in 1886 as a martyr.Occupation:Lady-in-waiting to Catherine of Aragon, manager of her estates as Countess of Salisbury.Dates:August 14, 1473 May 27, 1541Also known as: Margaret of York, Margaret Plantagenet, Margaret de la Pole, Countess of Salisbury, Margaret Pole the Blessed. She managed her lands quite well, and became one of the five or six wealthiest peers in England. Mores eldest daughter Margaret would become the first non-royal Englishwoman to publish a work in translation. And the king was now newly enamored of a young noblewoman called Anne Boleyn. 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Margaret may have been deprived of her dynastic importance, but her marriage was honourable and stable, and she retained her status, if not her familys great titles and wealth. Two days later, a four-count indictment charging More with treason was presented to the commission. Elizabeth Throckmorton. Her fiction is stiff and chary, as if she is too constrained by her knowledge of the pitfalls to turn her characters loose in their own lives. Reginald also urged the princes of Europe to depose Henry immediately. The Imperial Ambassador, Eustace Chapuys, suggested two years later that Mary be handed over to Margaret, but Henry refused, calling her "a fool, of no experience". More would stand trial for his life. He was knighted in 1521, became speaker of the House of Commons in 1523, and earned the title of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Henry wanted Reginald to come back to England and talk the matter over, but Reginald had the sense to keep his distance. Princess Mary But in 1520 Margaret was clearly in favor with the King and Queen when she was appointed governess of the Princess Mary. But Reginald Pole refused to do so, leaving for Europe in 1532. He was made knight of the Garter, and appointed chamberlain to the young Prince of Wales. But for the rest of his reign Henry VII would be plagued by pretenders, persistently rising from the dead. They married less than a month after Jane Colts death and More had to seek special dispensation from the church. The accounts differ slightly; Marillac's report, dispatched two days afterwards, recorded that the execution took place in a corner of the Tower with so few people present that, in the evening, news of her execution was doubted. His spirits were high when visited by family and friends, though they were only permitted to see him if they took the Oath which he had refused. Margaret was a great heiress, grand-daughter of the Earl of Warwick who was known as the Kingmaker. 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