* Walter Stafford (about 1539-after 1571 . 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. Because the main executioner[17] had been sent north to deal with rebels, the execution was performed by "a wretched and blundering youth who literally hacked her head and shoulders to pieces in the most pitiful manner". It was perfectly clear to any objective observer that the marriage was unlawful before God! This is Aalto. In April 1523, he was elected speaker of the House of Commons. [15][16], On the morning of 28 May 1541, Margaret was told she was to die within the hour. During her time in prison, Cromwell himself was executed. It was his great popularity that saved him. A pearl necklace is just a shadow now. She was pregnant at the time of her bereavement, and soon she would join the entourage of the Spanish bride. Margaret, Countess of Salisbury, was born at Farley Castle, near Bath, on 14th August, in or about the year 1473. No great European power was willing to commit men or money to this crusade, but their unwillingness was not apparent at the time. letters@lrb.co.uk Birth Year: 1478. For these reasons, More had no cause to suspect his monarch of anything less than fealty to their shared faith. [6] . He handled his responsibilities with his usual skill, but it was a balancing act, and an increasingly dangerous one. Margarets husband Richard died in 1504, leaving her with five young children and very little land or money. She managed her lands quite well, and became one of the five or six wealthiest peers in England. If, however, the subject lives a life of great extravagance, tell him he, too, can afford to give largely, the proof of his opulence being evident in his expenditure.. Henry VII also decided, about that time, to marry the 15-year-old Margaret to his half-cousin, Sir Richard Pole. And when the English clergy were forced to acknowledge Henry as the supreme head of their church, More attempted to resign his office. When Catherine of Aragon gave birth to a daughter, Mary, Margaret Pole was asked to be one of the godmothers. Birth City: London, England. But for now he was out of Henrys reach, leaving his family as hostages. She answered that no crime had been imputed to 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.. But the kings horoscope was looking nasty and, according to a Spanish commentator, he aged twenty years in two weeks. His naivety meant that, when threats to the regime mounted, he was easily entrapped. Katharine was the kings true wife. 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. Put a different hood on her, and she could be a man one of her own Plantagenet relations. Margaret Pole was the daughter of George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, brother to Edward IV, and a leading figure in the Wars of the Roses. She was, Pierce says, intelligent, unquestionably virtuous, traditionally pious, and possessed an easy familiarity with the convoluted etiquette of a royal court. Margaret was 14, and probably remained at court rather than living with her husband. In June 1535, after he had been imprisoned for over a year, Cromwells servant, Richard Rich, now solicitor general, stated that he had spoken with More and More had denied Parliaments power to make Henry head of the church. Here is where it gets complicated. Only when Fitzwilliam called Reginald a whoreson did she object, saying with a wonderful sorrowful countenance that he was no whoreson, for she was both a good woman and true. When Reginald, lying abroad, heard of her death, he announced to his secretary that he was now the son of a martyr. 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. In 1487, an imposter, Lambert Simmel, pretended to be her brother Edward, and was used to try to gather a rebellion against Henry VII. 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". As Countess of Salisbury, Margaret managed her lands well and by 1538 she was the fifth richest peer in England. His father, Sir Richard Pole, was a cousin of King Henry VII, and his mother, Margaret, countess of . Henry still hoped for Mores support. Her early years are obscure. His home at Chelsea was as close as Tudor England would come to an 18th century French salon. Margaret's third son, Reginald Pole, studied abroad in Padua. 28 Little Russell Street He was the child Margaret had been carrying when her brother Warwick was executed. Henry and his ministers suspected Reginald of plotting to marry the kings daughter Mary, and unite her claim with his. And why such an obvious and clumsy admission? Later in life, he bitterly resented her abandonment of him. 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. Among his guests, in fact, was the king himself. More importantly, he developed a personal relationship with Henry VIII, and because known as the kings intellectual courtier. Portrait of an unknown woman, often identified as the Countess of Salisbury, DWYER, J. G. "Pole, Margaret Plantagenet, Bl.". She was later regarded by Catholics as such and was beatified on 29 December 1886 by Pope Leo XIII. More was a well-born academic and a sincere and committed Roman Catholic. 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. Later, he would castigate her in the accents of a hurt child for what seemed to him abandonment, telling her that as she had given him up when he was so young, she should not interfere between him and his conscience. A Bill of Attainder disinherited Margaret and her younger brother, Edward, and removed them from the line of succession. 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. (1) 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. After bearing More three daughters (Margaret, Elizabeth, Cicely) and one son (John), Jane died in 1511. The relationship between Mary and Lady Salisbury was very close. By Caroline Hallemann Published: Nov 24, 2020 Based in North Carolina, Higginbotham is a lawyer by background and has written several historical novels, spanning different eras. Afterwards, More's head was displayed on a pike at London Bridge for a month. But Reginald Pole refused to do so, leaving for Europe in 1532. The following poem was found carved on the wall of her cell: For traitors on the block should die; 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. Where is Hans Holbein when you need him? As his disgrace deepened, Margaret withdrew from court. Lewis, Jone Johnson. Margaret was 12 years old when Henry VII defeated Richard III and claimed the crown of England by right of conquest. 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. The grave of Anne Boleyn. He read anything and everything he could find on the subject. In 1485, he was defeated and killed at the Battle of Bosworth by Henry Tudor, who succeeded him as Henry VII. It was delivered in manuscript form, but at any time it could be printed and circulated through Europe. It mattered to London shopkeepers, and to great churchmen. On his accession he granted her an annuity of 100 a year and on 14 Oct 1513 he created her Countess of Salisbury and gave her the family lands of the earldom of Salisbury. 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. On the 27th May 1541, the elderly Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury, godmother and former governess to Henry VIII's daughter Mary, was executed at the Tower of London. Margarets aunt, Anne Neville, thus became queen. Lewis, Jone Johnson. Perhaps the contrast with the quiet, gentle Jane was too striking. Ten years on, her situation was more difficult to negotiate. Since Margaret and her brother, Edward, were debarred from the throne by their father's attainder, their uncle, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, was offered the crown and became king as Richard III. Susan Higginbotham. 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. Mores piety was the defining aspect of his character; even as the circumstances of his life changed, it remained constant and unyielding. His choice was Jane Colt, the eldest daughter of a gentleman farmer. Margarets whole family had been elevated with her on the wheel of fortune. He impressed the cardinal enough that he was knighted upon his return and made under-treasurer of the Exchequer. Thomas Cromwell producerade en tunika av typen 'Five Wounds of Christ', som pstods vara en symbol fr nskan att placera . Margaret Poles death, notoriously, was not a clean end. [27] She is commemorated in the dedication of the Church of Our Lady Queen of Peace & Blessed Margaret Pole in Southbourne, Bournemouth.[28]. His crusade against his native land was never launched, but many years later he would return, Archbishop of Canterbury to Mary Tudor, and join in heresy-hunting and the burning of reformers. It was time to be rid of Warwick. Mores beginnings, however, hardly predicted his spectacular career. Ultimately, they would both become martyrs of their faith (though this show is not likely . There have been rumors of an alleged relationship with Lady Margaret (see the White Queen series, for example). Henry VII had Edward executed, leaving Margaret as the sole survivor of George of Clarence. Even as he secretly wore a hair shirt, he openly and consistently fasted, prayed, and maintained a relatively modest household. Edward IV died in 1483 when Margaret was ten. Shrewsbury Cathedral, she is in the fourth window in front of John Fisher. It was children who caused him a problem. More would stand trial for his life. When Richard Pole died in 1504 Margaret had had to borrow money to give him a suitable funeral. Ursula Pole, Baroness Stafford the daughter of Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury and Sir Richard Pole. It stated that all who were called upon must take an oath acknowledging Anne as Henrys wife and their future children as legitimate heirs to the throne. Margarets later life, at least, is well documented, but we cannot approach her story from the inside. This was not due to any dislike of the king. Thomas More worked hard for the king. 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. His desire for an annulment was now not merely to secure a legitimate heir; it was also spurred by his desire to marry Anne. It was, Pierce says, as if Margaret had won the lottery. The sitter might as well be carved, for all she suggests flesh or circulating blood. Cookies collect information about your preferences and your devices and are used to make the site work as you expect it to, to understand how you interact with the site, and to show advertisements that are targeted to your interests. She, her grandson, Henry (son of her own son Henry), and Exeter's son were held together and supported by the king. After Richard was killed, Margaret came to court under the new regime, and in September 1486 she attended the christening of Arthur, the first Tudor prince. Yet even as his legal future seemed assured, More was deeply conflicted about his future. He returned to Padua in 1532 and received a last English benefice in December of that same year. True or not, the marriage proved to be happy and fruitful, though of brief duration. He did not share his opinion with the king. And so, when More returned from a diplomatic mission to France in summer 1527, the king laid the open Bible before his favorite councilor. Was More surprised by this speech? . Margaret Pole was restored to a position as lady-in-waiting, which helped her financial situation. Joan, wife of Roger Swillington. Margaret kept silent on the matter. Here's how the cast of The Spanish Princess compares to their real-life counterparts, from Catherine to Margaret Pole. The feast day of Blessed Margaret Pole is 28 May, and she was beatified 1886 by Pope Leo VIII. Wolsey was destined to die for his failure to secure the annulment. 3.67. 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. In fact she was 67. Gregory had been corresponding with Reginald; the investigation of Henry Courtenay, Marquess of Exeter (Henry VIII's first cousin and Geoffrey's second cousin), had turned up his name. The National Archives, minsters' accounts, SC6/HENVIII. Margaret Pole was George Duke of Clarence daughter. Later that year, Reginald was summoned to Rome, made a cardinal and put in charge of organising a crusade against England economic sanctions first, war if need be. Biography. As the heir to the throne, Mary enjoyed a separate household, and in 1525 she was sent to Ludlow to hold court. He was made knight of the Garter, and appointed chamberlain to the young Prince of Wales. When that daughters father-in-law was executed by Henry VIII, the Pole family fell out of favor briefly, but regained favor. In 1512, Parliament, with Henrys assent, restored to her some of the lands that had been held by Henry VII for her brother while he was imprisoned, and then had been confiscated when he was executed. 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. According to some stories, which are not accepted by many historians, she refused to lay her head on the block, and guards had to force her to kneel. [9] Her youngest son, Geoffrey Pole, married well to Constance, daughter of Edmund Pakenham, and inherited the estate of Lordington in Sussex. There are only glimpses of her in these years: my lady Margaret of Clarence. As part of his 'Random Histo. The supposed discovery, six months after her house and effects were searched at her arrest, is likely to have been a fabrication. See me safe up, he told the lieutenant who escorted him, and for my coming down let me shift for myself.. 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]. The Editor Rebecca Benson as Margaret Pole in The White Princess (2017)(Screenshot/Fair Use) Margaret Plantagenet was born on 14 August 1473 at Farleigh Castle near Bath as the daughter of George, Duke of Clarence and Isabel Neville. A Professional theme for architects, construction and interior designers She was more likely arrested simply because of her maternal connection to Henry and Reginald, her sons, and perhaps the symbolism of her family heritage, the last of the Plantagenets. Edward was briefly displayed in public at St Paul's Cathedral in 1487 in response to the presentation of the impostor Lambert Simnel as the "Earl of Warwick" to the Irish lords. But it is difficult to detect in her conduct the heroic virtues assumed by Rome, and easier to see self-protective caution at work. Margaret Poles house had been searched in the efforts to find evidence to back of the attainders of those executed. Margaret's relationship with Henry VIII, must have been good. Born on the 14th August 1473, she went on to marry Sir Richard Pole in 1491. Her father, already Duke of Clarence, was then created Earl of Salisbury and of Warwick. He was Dean of Exeter and Wimborne Minster, Dorset, as well as a canon of York. 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. [12] In May 1536, Reginald finally and definitively broke with the king. It was not a bloodbath, but a selective cull, carried through by process of law. Her mother, Isabel, daughter of the above-mentioned "King-maker," died 22nd December, 1476, and her father in the Tower nearly two years later. On 14 November 1538, Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, was arrested. Posted By Claire on May 27, 2012. And More was more convinced than ever that he needed to leave royal service. She was by necessity hostile to the Catholic church. When Henry gave the nod for the execution to take place, no one was give. He blundered badly, hacking at Margaret's neck and shoulders until she was dead. And so he was imprisoned in the Tower of London on 17 April 1534. It is no exaggeration to state that its publication ensured More a stature that no other Englishman of his time enjoyed. 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. More also engaged in a public war of words on the kings behalf with Martin Luther, the father of the Reformation. He encouraged them to do so. The pope would not relent. In 1539, Reginald was sent to the Emperor to organize an embargo against Englandthe sort of countermeasure he had himself warned Henry was possible.[14]. Margaret was superfluous; curtly, Henry wrote her off as a fool. Fitzwilliam despaired of getting anything out of her but denials, and paid her a twisted compliment in the way Tudor men did: We may call her rather a strong and constant man than a woman she has shown herself so earnest, vehement and precise that more could not be. When he told her that her goods had been seized, she must have known it was the beginning of the end, and seemeth thereat to be somew[hat] appalled, but neither then nor at any later point did she profess anything but loyalty to Henry and regret at her familys folly. Henry VIII was a Catholic ruler, and enjoyed friendly relations with the papacy until he sought to divorce Katharine. Anne was the anointed queen. Get the best results here. And "Look," we say, "look, I'm anchored! Those two could only get along for short while before things got heated. Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots. ODNB, "Reginald Pole"; "Geoffrey Pole". Both Henry and Reginald Pole were attainted in 1539; Geoffrey was pardoned. This was an obvious lie; More had never said anything of the sort to any other visitor, why Rich? Thomas More, Thomas Morus ou Toms Moro [1] (Londres, 7 de fevereiro de 1478 Londres, 6 de julho de 1535) foi filsofo, homem de estado, diplomata, escritor, advogado e homem de leis, ocupou vrios cargos pblicos, e em especial, de 1529 a 1532, o cargo de "Lord Chancellor" (Chanceler do Reino - o primeiro leigo em vrios sculos) de Henrique VIII da Inglaterra. Chapuys wrote two weeks after the execution that one hundred and fifty witnesses were present for the execution, including the Lord Mayor of London. More was thus in his early thirties, successful, happily married, when the tax collectors Dudley and Empson were beheaded on Tower Hill at the command of the new king, Henry VIII. She was born on the 14th August 1473 and married Sir Richard Pole in 1491, having five children before she was widowed in 1505. She was a decade and a half younger than he was, and he never seems to have felt anything more than a brotherly affection for her. In 1536, Pole sent Henry a treatise which not only opposed Henrys grounds for divorce that he had married his brothers wife and thus the marriage was invalid but also opposing Henrys more recent assertion of Royal Supremacy, power in the church in England above that of Rome. And his old friend, the duke of Norfolk, took care to warn him of his danger, Indignatio principis mors est. To which More famously replied, Is that all, my lord? Henry VII paid for Richard's funeral. However, we should not assume that Mortons politics had any profound impact upon More. She was an apt enough pupil to later converse with visitors in Latin. If my head should win him a castle in France, he told his son-in-law in 1525, it should not fail to go.). [3], Margaret was born at Farleigh Castle in Somerset, the only surviving daughter of George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, and his wife Isabel Neville, who was the elder daughter of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, and his wife Anne Beauchamp, 16th Countess of Warwick. Answer (1 of 6): Anne Boleyn's death would have been instant and painless - to the extent that we can guess, anyway. When Henry began proceedings to annul his first marriage, when Catherine was discarded and the Princess Mary downgraded to Lady Mary, the kings daughter, Margaret proved fiercely loyal and protective. Margarets daughter Ursula would have 13 children, and three of her four sons would marry heiresses and have large families. The eldest daughter of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, Margaret was the sister of Henry VIII. Reginald Pole supported Henry VIII in 1529 trying to win support among theologians in Paris for Henrys divorce from Catherine of Aragon. Edward was then brought out and displayed briefly to the public. He collected books and rare objects, but he gave away his possessions freely as well. She had a dispute over land with Henry VIII in 1518; he awarded the contested lands to the Dukedom of Somerset, which had been held by his Beaufort great-grandfather, and were now in the possession of the Crown. Or was there, as she claimed, nothing worth burning? Wolsey, for all his brilliance and cunning, could not compete with that influence. After several months, he was visited by Cromwell, but More refused to engage him in debate and merely declared himself a faithful subject of the king. On 27th May, in 1541 Margaret Pole, niece of Richard III and Edward IV, was executed at the command of Henry VIII. Please include name, address and a telephone number. When Prince Arthur held court in Ludlow with the 15-year-old Catherine of Aragon, Richard Pole was with him, and a friendship began between the bride and the chamberlains wife which was to outlast Catherines life and have deep and lasting consequences for Margaret Pole. The sons of Edward IV, 11 and 13 years old, had been held in the Tower by their uncle Richard III, and last been seen by Londoners in the summer of 1483. In 1512, an Act of Parliament restored to Margaret the Earldom of Salisbury and some of her brother's land which had belonged to it, for which she paid 5000 marks (2666.13s.4d), equivalent to 2,164,602 in 2021. Credit: PjrWindows / Alamy Stock Photo. Margaret Pole. Her mother died after giving birth to a fourth child; that brother died ten days after their mother. Its influence upon William Shakespeares Richard III is immense. His son-in-law William Roper, whose biography of More is one of the first biographies ever written, tells us that More chose his wife out of pity: [A]lbeit his mind most served him to the second daughter, for that he thought her the fairest and best favored, yet when he considered that it would be great grief and some shame also to the eldest to see her younger sister preferred before her in marriage, he then, of a certain pity, framed his fancy towards Jane. Thomas More was born on 7 February 1478 in London, the son of a successful lawyer. Pierces book is thorough and scholarly, and her work is acknowledged in Higginbothams biography, which is less detailed, but serious and judicious. Henry married Margarets cousin, Elizabeth of York, and imprisoned Margarets brother as a potential threat to his kingship. On 18 February 1478, aged 28, George, Duke of Clarence, brother to the King of England, was executed. In Utopia, he identified himself as a citizen of London, and it was in London that he was born on 7 February 1477, the only surviving son of John More and his first wife, Agnes Graunger. His lands and titles were thereby forfeited. [6] She remained there until she returned to favour when Henry VIII came to the throne in 1509. In this first biography of a significant female figure in the male-dominated world of British Tudor politics, Hazel Pierce reconsiders the life and martyrdom of Catholic duchess Margaret Pole against the changing social and political landscape of her times. [13], In 1537, Reginald (still not ordained) was made a Cardinal. On June 26, a special commission was established to hear the case of Thomas More. To that end, he spent the next three years in study and prayer, wearing a hair shirt next to his skin (a practice he never abandoned), and struggling to reconcile his genuine religious fervor with the demands of the outside world. To my principles!". Higginbotham is more comfortable with biography, but this has not deterred her publisher from dressing up her new book like a historical novel of the type she doesnt much like, with a moody wash of colour and a woman with trailing skirts and half a head. That was the beginning of Thomas Mores public career, and it was a telling one. He was keenly interested in theology, but he was not ordained; he was free to marry if he wished, and propagate a Plantagenet family. 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). Geoffrey Pole, who had given the government what it needed, was pardoned. (We should note, however, that More brilliant and perceptive was never especially comfortable in his kings good graces. The trial of Sir Thomas More for treason opened in Westminster Hall on July 1, 1535. The date of the marriage is uncertain; 1487 is likely. Certainly Henry wanted Mores support. In theory, after she married, a womans personal property and real estate were at her husbands disposal. But Reginald, it seemed, always got a tip-off. The Duke of Clarence plotted against Edward IV and in February 1478 was attainted and executed for treason. The Execution of a Duke. Henry wanted Reginald to come back to England and talk the matter over, but Reginald had the sense to keep his distance. 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. Did she, as the regime alleged, burn the evidence that incriminated her? 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