Margarets aunt, Anne Neville, thus became queen. He did not struggle with the reduction in means, and busied himself with planning a tomb for himself and his wives , as well as defending his faith in various pamphlets. Not only did this mean that Margaret came of royal stock, but it meant that she came from the family that was historically opposed to the reign of the Tudors, a fact that would affect her throughout her life. Gender: Male. It mattered to London shopkeepers, and to great churchmen. Reginald was the most interesting and talented of Margarets children, and the one to whom she was not close. She managed her lands quite well, and became one of the five or six wealthiest peers in England. (Along with Margaret her sister-in-law Eleanor Pole was also a lady-in-waiting to Katherine. She was born on the 14th August 1473 and married Sir Richard Pole in 1491, having five children before she was widowed in 1505. Margaret Plantagenet, the daughter of George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence and of his wife, Isabel Neville, was born on 14th August 1473 at Farleigh Castle, near Bath. His father recalled him to London and he trained as a law student at New Inn and later Lincolns Inn. But that was years in the future. In 1529, he represented Henry VIII in Paris, persuading the theologians of the Sorbonne to support Henry's divorce from Catherine of Aragon. He waited five days before being summoned to the scaffold on Tower Hill. Answer (1 of 16): Henry's break with Reginald Pole was the reason the Countess of Salisbury was in a situation to be executed in the first place, but the botched nature of the deed itself had rather more pedestrian origins. Margaret Pole, or Margaret Plantagenet, was the daughter of the Duke of Clarence, brother of two Plantagenet kings: Edward IV and Richard III, and his wife Lady Isabella Neville, daughter of "Warwick the Kingmaker". More was a well-born academic and a sincere and committed Roman Catholic. It was the beginning of a fertile new line. However, things suddenly change in May 1541 when a decision was made to execute her. And More determined that their daughters would receive the same education as their son. Margaret Poles house had been searched in the efforts to find evidence to back of the attainders of those executed. Margaret was perhaps guilty only by association, but at this distance it is impossible to tell. Henry VIII married Catherine of Aragon in 1509 and Margaret was again appointed as one of her ladies-in-waiting. This discovery resulted in removal of Mores books and writing materials. On 1 July 1535, he was indicted on high treason. Her thoughts, her motives, are so hidden, either by her inclination or by the work of time, that it is difficult for the most diligent biographer to put her together and make her walk and talk. But he could not recognize the kings authority as head of the new church of England. She managed her lands quite well, and became one of the five or six wealthiest peers in England. Mores brilliance of mind and curious, kindly character gained him many friends and admirers. It was, Henry told him, proof that his marriage to Katharine was incestuous due to her previous marriage to his brother. [15][16], On the morning of 28 May 1541, Margaret was told she was to die within the hour. For highlights from the latest issue, our archive and the blog, as well as news, events and exclusive promotions. [email protected] But and of course this clause was added simply to trap More the Act also required a repudiation of any foreign authority, prince or potentate. More could recognize Anne as the crowned queen of England. Margaret is a devout Catholic and a member of the House of York, which fought Henry's father during the War of the Roses; she is first cousin of Henry's mother Queen Elizabeth of York through her father George Plantagenet, Elizabeth's uncle and the brother of Edward IV. Was the family sincere in deploring his disloyalty? Margaret's destiny, as an heiress to the Plantagenets, is not for a life in the shadows. More also engaged in a public war of words on the kings behalf with Martin Luther, the father of the Reformation. ODNB, "Reginald Pole"; "Geoffrey Pole". It was not a bloodbath, but a selective cull, carried through by process of law. Richard Pole was appointed to the household of Arthur, eldest son of Henry VII and Prince of Wales, heir apparent. There have been rumors of an alleged relationship with Lady Margaret (see the White Queen series, for example). Art and science The German artist Hans Holbein the Younger paints King Henry VIII. Margaret Pole was a pretty tough and clinical woman. But Reginald Pole refused to do so, leaving for Europe in 1532. Likewise, Henry became understandably angry at the papacys refusal to repudiate Charles. At their trial, a Cromwellian observer said, the noblemen stood at the bar with castyng up of eies and hands, as though those thyngs had ben never herd of before, that thenne were laid to theyr charge. "Margaret Pole, Tudor Matriarch and Martyr." [11], In 1531, Reginald Pole warned of the dangers of the Boleyn marriage. By Caroline Hallemann Published: Nov 24, 2020 If you use any of the content on this page in your own work, please use the code below to cite this page as the source of the content. Soon he was acting as Henrys personal secretary and adviser, delivering official speeches, greeting foreign envoys, drafting treaties and other public documents, and composing the kings responses to Wolseys dispatches. This site requires the use of Javascript to provide the best possible experience. This More was fully prepared to do. Here's how the cast of The Spanish Princess compares to their real-life counterparts, from Catherine to Margaret Pole. Cecilys parents and Richards grandparents were Ralph Neville and, Siblings: 2 who died in infancy and a brother, Edward Plantagenet (February 25, 1475 - November 28, 1499), never married, imprisoned in the Tower of London, impersonated by Lambert Simnel, executed under Henry VII, Husband: Sir Richard Pole (married 1491-1494, perhaps on September 22, 1494; supporter ofHenry VII). In 1540, Cromwell fell from favour and was attainted and executed. Pope Paul III put him in charge of organising assistance for the Pilgrimage of Grace (and related movements). Eleanor was related through marriage to Lady Margaret Beaufort's extended family.) It was a housekeeping matter, the French ambassador said; Henry, now with his fifth wife, Katherine Howard, wanted to make a progress north, and to empty the Tower before he set off, either by acts of mercy or the condemnation of detainees. He wore many hats: chief diplomat, speechwriter, advisor. During her time in prison, Cromwell himself was executed. But eventually the break between the king and his chief minister could not be ignored. After his marriage to Anne Boleyn and the birth of their daughter, Elizabeth, Mary was sent to join the household of the infant princess. And the king was not pleased with the young lawyer; he promptly imprisoned Mores father in the Tower until he paid a substantial fine. She was executed in 1541, the act of attainder rendering a trial unnecessary. 3.67. Margaret Pole, as she was now styled, was held in the Tower of London for two-and-a-half years. So yes, the Pole family were cousins to de la Pole family. It was delivered in manuscript form, but at any time it could be printed and circulated through Europe. Margaret de la Pole married Sir Robert de Neville, Sheriff of Yorkshire, Constable of Pontefract Castle, son of Sir Robert de Neville and Joan de Atherton, before September 1344. It should be noted that Mores affinity for the monastic life never left him, despite his later marriages, family, and career. Please change your browser settings to allow Javascript content to run. The Editor And as his own reputation grew in London, he attracted the notice of the all-powerful Cardinal Wolsey. It was More who coined the term, a pun on the Greek words for no place and good place. 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. Inventories paint the picture: tableware of silver and gold, Venetian glass, mother-of-pearl, tapestries portraying the journeys of Ulysses and the discovery of Newfoundland; the countess herself, tall, stately, wears ermine, tawny damask, black satin and black velvet. Mr Buxton has returned to live quietly in Cranford following . Either her sons had not made her aware of their dealings, Fitzwilliam concluded, or she was an adept in brazen deceit. 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After Katherina of Aragon's death, Princess Mary turned toward Margaret Pole as a second mother, and now her father was going to take away this beloved maternal figure from her as well. 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. For at least five years, Montagu, Exeter and others had been passing information to the emperor through his ambassador, urging the invasion of England, and Reginald himself had assured the readers of his 1536 letter that a host of disaffected subjects were lurking within the realm, ready to support the invaders against Henry as soon as foreign troops landed. It took many blows to finally kill her and this botched execution was itself remembered and, for some, considered a sign of martyrdom. Cromwell was an astute politician whose beliefs changed at the whim of his royal master. Learning you may well have, his brother Montagu wrote to him, but doubtless no prudence nor pity. Reginald had compared himself to a surgeon ready to cut away diseased flesh from the body of England: not the most tactful metaphor, when your anointed king is dragging about with an ulcerated leg. In The Kings Curse (2014) she was ground up by the great fictionalising machine that is Philippa Gregory, and in 2003 she was the subject of a major biography by Hazel Pierce: Margaret Pole: Loyalty, Lineage and Leadership. Please include name, address and a telephone number. Margaret was born into the England of the Wars of the Roses and was the daughter of George, Duke of Clarence, one of Edward IV 's younger brothers and was of the House of York. 83 ratings9 reviews. That was clear to Cromwell almost from the first, and perhaps to More, too. [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. Read anywhere with the London Review of Books app, available now from the App Store for Apple devices, Google Play for Android devices and Amazon for your Kindle Fire. It was five years after the likely date of Margarets marriage that her first son was born. Yet even as his legal future seemed assured, More was deeply conflicted about his future. Looking to her last end, Margaret commissioned a chantry at Christchurch Priory. And the king did not force the issue. Elizabeth Darrell, later Thomas Wyatts mistress, refused the oath; Lady Hussey, wife of one of Marys household, was imprisoned because she would not accept Marys exclusion from the succession and insisted on addressing her as a princess. He blindfolded himself and exhorted the assembled crowd to witness his end in the faith and for the faith of the Catholic Church, the kings good servant but Gods first. Even Mores Protestant enemies did not believe him a traitor; his death was almost universally held to be nothing less than martyrdom. He was keenly interested in theology, but he was not ordained; he was free to marry if he wished, and propagate a Plantagenet family. Pole and his hagiographers gave several later accounts of Pole's activities after Henry met Anne Boleyn. To ease the situation, Margaret devoted her third son, Reginald Pole, to the Church; he was to have an eventful career as a papal Legate and later as Archbishop of Canterbury. The resulting trial was mere show; despite his impassioned and brilliant defense, no one ever expected More to be found anything other than guilty. He was made knight of the Garter, and appointed chamberlain to the young Prince of Wales. It seems Margaret was questioned about her contacts with Barton, but she came to no harm as a result and, unlike Gertrude, she escaped without grovelling. Her son Reginald described himself afterwards as son of a martyr and in 1886, Pope Leo XIII had Margaret Pole beatified as a martyr. He would arrive unbidden, to either eat with the family or walk in the garden with More, his arm slung casually about Mores shoulders. In fact she was 67. When her husband died in 1505, Margaret became a widow with five children. 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. Here is where it gets complicated. It gave the king pause, and More was allowed to return home. A third account in Burke's Peerage, possibly apocryphal, described the appalling circumstances of the execution. John More was a successful lawyer who was later knighted and made a judge of the Kings Bench; he was prosperous enough to send his son to Londons best school, St Anthonys at Threadneedle Street. After his death, and for centuries thereafter, Sir Thomas More was known as the most famous victim of Henry VIII's tyranny. Arthur Pole suffered a setback when his patron Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, was convicted of treason in 1521, but he was soon restored to favour. The former Lord Chancellor Sir Thomas More is beheaded for High Treason after refusing to recognise King Henry VIII's religious supremacy. Margaret would have had a claim to the Earldom of Warwick, but the earldom was forfeited on the attainder of her brother Edward.[4]. Both men were enthusiastic Humanist scholars, but they parted ways with regard to the kings prerogative. Margaret was not executed with her eldest son, but was held in the Tower for the last years of her life the king paying her bills, outfitting her as became a great lady in furred petticoats and a satin nightgown. Columbus, Ohio Area. Birth Country: United Kingdom. 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!. He read anything and everything he could find on the subject. When Arthur married Catherine of Aragon, she became a lady-in-waiting to the princess. St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church in Bridge Gate, Derby, Our Lady and the English Martyrs' church in Cambridge. Cardinal Wolsey and the king needed no further reason to bring More into the kings service. Henrys adult opponents were dead or driven abroad. Or was there, as she claimed, nothing worth burning? As Countess of Salisbury, Margaret managed her lands well and by 1538 she was the fifth richest peer in England. It was Mores impassioned speeches against this large and unjust burden that made the king reduce it by more than two thirds. The reasons were various, but the most important was Katharines position as aunt to the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V. Charles would not let his aunt be cast aside (he was also considering the dynastic appeal of her daughter with Henry), and he pressured the pope to deny Henrys petition. The only people to escape the toxicity of the court were Lina (Stephanie Levi-John) and Oviedo (Aaron Cobham), who decided to seek a new life in the Ottoman Empire. It is at this moment that we must step back and consider the England in which More now lived. She was the niece of Edward IV and Richard III of England by way of their brother George Plantagenet, 1 st Duke of Clarence. Afterwards, More's head was displayed on a pike at London Bridge for a month. But polite prevarications only worked for so long and soon More was a genuine courtier, with all its attendant duties and benefits. More was not a man to be broken by prison, but he suffered physically. He married Anne Cheney, daughter of Nicholas Cheney. 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. She is a close student of the sources, and careful not to stuff her novels with false excitements. For Mores part, he undoubtedly appreciated his second wifes superb housekeeping skills for they allowed him the freedom to pursue his increasingly successful career. It did not matter. Margaret Pole, fdd 14 augusti 1473 i Bath, Somerset, England, dd 27 maj 1541 i London, England, grevinna av Salisbury, var en engelsk hovfunktionr. Gaily agreeing that the chief female virtues are meekness and self-effacement, they managed estates, signed off accounts, bought wardships and brokered marriage settlements, all the while keeping up a steady output of needlework. She, her grandson, Henry (son of her own son Henry), and Exeter's son were held together and supported by the king. But no one could be sure they were dead, and not escaped abroad, or living under assumed names. He could now only write to his wife and favorite daughter Margaret with a piece of coal or burnt stick on scraps of paper. The grave of Anne Boleyn. He was the child Margaret had been carrying when her brother Warwick was executed. Chapuys wrote that, "at first, when the sentence of death was made known to her, she found the thing very strange, not knowing of what crime she was accused, nor how she had been sentenced". Some stories even claim this was at his own request, having been permitted to choose the manner of his execution. Margaret, Countess of Salisbury, was born at Farley Castle, near Bath, on 14th August, in or about the year 1473. This conviction meant they lost their titles and their landsmostly in the South of England--conveniently located to assist any invasion. His natural piety was at odds with other courtiers, all of whom jockeyed ceaselessly for the kings favor. Allida is tongue-tied with An Impossible Thing to Say by Arya Shahi, in which an Iranian American teen in Arizonafalls in love with the new girl at school, Shakespeare, and rap music while . But he himself did not sign the letter in which most of Englands nobles and prelates petitioned the pope to declare the marriage unlawful. Margarets husband Richard died in 1504, leaving her with five young children and very little land or money. The relationship between the King and Margaret wavered a bit in 1518 when Henry repossessed some of her Salisbury lands saying they belonged to the duchy of Somerset. Annes personal religious feeling was unimportant. The second season of The Spanish Princess premieres on Starz on Sunday, October 11. The next year, when her sons were mixed up with Buckingham, she was removed from that appointment, but later restored to it by 1525. More suffered a sharp chest pain, possibly angina, and begged the king to release him from his duties. Margaret remained in the Tower of London for more than two years. This phrase has been interpreted as meaning Edward was of low intelligence; it only means that he was unworldly, and Higginbotham sees this. After she had redeemed her dead brothers lands from the crown, she owned property in Calais, and estates in Wales and 17 English counties. After Henry's second wife, Anne Boleyn, was arrested, and eventually executed, Margaret was permitted to return to Court, albeit briefly. Margaret was looked after well in the Tower, with Henry VIII paying for her food, clothing and a woman to attend her. At this point, Reginald delivered him a nasty surprise, in the shape of a letter denouncing him as a schismatic, heretic and disgrace to Christendom: a Nero, a wild beast. Margaret Pole ended up becoming a Catholic martyr. He had a true gift for friendship and inspired deep loyalty amongst his family and friends. Nevertheless, she was taken from her cell to the place within the precincts of the Tower of London where a low wooden block had been prepared instead of the customary scaffold.[5]. Margaret was 14, and probably remained at court rather than living with her husband. His name was on the attainder and he was brought before the Privy Council in February 1534. He grew up cultivated and cosmopolitan, sensitive, lively-minded. Family solidarity, the code of survival, did not mean much to Reginald, brought up under an alien roof; if he were to lose his earthly family, he said, he would still have the fellowship of the saints in paradise. Henry was negotiating a glorious marriage for Prince Arthur, to a daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella. On 27th May, in 1541 Margaret Pole, niece of Richard III and Edward IV, was executed at the command of Henry VIII. The Tower's professional executioner was away, so a young novice was given the job. Arthur had been a courtier, an able jouster and a great favourite with Henry, serving in his privy chamber. Whether the countess was up to this is hard to say, but later the Imperial ambassador was to declare that Mary regarded her as a second mother. The new pretender, Ralph Wilford, was arrested and killed before the conspiracy bred any action. 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. No one would stage a rebellion in her favour while there were male Yorkists to mount a challenge. Unfortunately for More, Henry appointed him Lord Chancellor of England. He did not share his opinion with the king. His position at court meant that he was to be the kings advocate before parliament. We do not know. Seldom distracted from voicing their headline concerns, her people give each other a lot of information, in unmodulated voices, each time they speak. The two men had first met in 1497 and remained close friends until Mores death. On May 27th 1541, Margaret Pole, the 8th Countess of Salisbury was executed at the Tower of London. In total, Margaret and Richard Pole had five children together: Henry, Arthur, Ursula, Reginald and Geoffrey. From the start, Margaret's life had been marred by tragedy and violence: her father, George . Henry wrote to Margaret, who in turn wrote to her son, reproving him for his "folly". Lewis, Jone Johnson. He dictated letter after letter. Both Henry and Reginald Pole were attainted in 1539; Geoffrey was pardoned. The little Earl of Warwick remained alive and shut away. He had been shut up for most of his life and, one later chronicler said, could not discern a goose from a capon. His lands and titles were thereby forfeited. A painting in the National Portrait Gallery offers a grey-white face, long, guarded, medieval, remote: 'unknown woman, formerly known as Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury'. Contemporary chroniclers often referred to him as a friend of the poor. To help with her financial situation, she gave one of her sons, Reginald, to the church. 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.. 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. 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. Today we know Sir Thomas More primarily as the author of Utopia, and as one of the more famous martyrs of Henry VIIIs reign. But for the rest of his reign Henry VII would be plagued by pretenders, persistently rising from the dead. 1 Through his father he was descended from Edward III's son, Thomas of Woodstock, and his mother was Catherine Woodville, sister of Edward IV's queen, Elizabeth Woodville; she afterwards married Henry VII's uncle, Jasper Tudor, Duke of Bedford. And so he was imprisoned in the Tower of London on 17 April 1534. A possible portrait of Margaret Pole (c. 1535). By 1527, the king was in his mid-thirties, and his wife six years older. 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. And he was a father who insisted his three daughters have the same education as his son. She spent much of her time at Warblington, where she was nicely placed, in the event of an invasion, to help the rebels against Henry; or so you thought, if you were one of Henrys councillors. Margaret's third son, Reginald Pole, studied abroad in Padua. He encouraged them to do so. He was sentenced to a traitors death to be drawn, hanged, and quartered but the king changed it to beheading. 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 Pole was restored to a position as lady-in-waiting, which helped her financial situation. Ursula married into the powerful Stafford family; of Margarets sons, only Reginald did not marry; by the age of seven he was given utterly to God. Biography of Anne Neville, Wife and Queen of Richard III of England, Biography of Elizabeth Woodville, Queen of England, Biography of Margaret of Anjou, Henry VI's Queen, Famous Mothers in History: Ancient Through Modern, M.Div., Meadville/Lombard Theological School, Father: George, Duke of Clarence, brother of king Edward IV and of Richard, Duke of Gloucester (later Richard III), Note: Cecily Neville, Margarets paternal grandmother, was a paternal aunt of Margarets maternal grandfather, Richard Neville. The Execution of a Duke. But literacy was their usual weapon, not spells, and many of them picked up enough legal knowledge to fight their corner in civil disputes. We come now to the great event of Henrys reign. Put a different hood on her, and she could be a man one of her own Plantagenet relations. We know her, as we know so many of her contemporaries, through her inventories, through legal documents and official letters. He then disappeared into his private closet, and after an hour, came out as cheerful as before. I am no traitor, no, not I! Her brothers royal blood, however, remained a danger. Margaret Pole, Tudor Matriarch and Martyr. Margaret was one of just two women in 16th-century England to be a peeress in her own right (suo jure) without a husband in the House of Lords. Richard Pole held a variety of offices in Henry VII's government, the highest being Chamberlain for Arthur, Prince of Wales, Henry's elder son. Erasmus mourned his friend and wrote that Mores soul was more pure than snow and his genius was such that England never had and never again will have its like. More was beatified by the Catholic Church in 1886, and canonized by Pius XI in 1935. by Susan Higginbotham. Stoke was a decisive victory. And so, when More returned from a diplomatic mission to France in summer 1527, the king laid the open Bible before his favorite councilor. In May 1539 Henry, Margaret, Exeter and others were attainted, as Margaret's father had been. She was the Spanish princess, Katharine of Aragon, one of the daughters of the Catholic rulers of Spain. Among his guests, in fact, was the king himself. 28 Little Russell Street Margaret would have been too young to remember her mother, and it is likely that she was brought up within her fathers princely household, then after his execution lived with her cousins, the many daughters of Edward IV. (2020, August 26). Henry was able to play peacemaker. When Catherine of Aragon gave birth to a daughter, Mary, Margaret Pole was asked to be one of the godmothers. Susan Higginbotham. [26] She and her husband were parents to five children: Her son, Reginald Pole, said that he would "never fear to call himself the son of a martyr". The 8-episode season follows Catherine of Aragon (Charlotte Hope) and King Henry VIII's (Ruari O'Connor) tumultuous marriage. 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