Further reading: Lady Margaret Pole: Countess of Salisbury, Tudor Times, 2015. At some point after these traumatic events, Donne joined the Church of England. morning of 28 May (de Marillac; Gardner, following Chapuys, says 27) she was Under the reign of Henry VIII on May 27th 1541, at the age of 67, Margaret Pole Countess of Salisbury was executed for treason. Please join us on our 130 year mission by supporting us. By 1478 Margaret Plantagenet and her brother Edward were both orphans. Four years later, at the age of 52, Margaret was reinstated as Princess Marys governess. He obtained a special livery of his father's lands, viz. Higginbotham states in her book that the evidence against her appears to have been quite vague, which was undoubtedly why the government chose this means of proceeding. Henry married Margaret's cousin, Elizabeth of York, and imprisoned Margaret's brother as a potential threat to his kingship. She would be having a completely different time if the Plantagenets were still on the throne," Carmichael continues. with good cheer). arrested. wreaked on the hostages in England, and this despite the fact that the countess Warwick, under Margaret died on 25th December 1544 and William on 4th January 1578. It is those who have everything that need be afraid.". P.C., Fasc.228, No.62). documents and was a witness to the great peace Treaty of London in Children and Wards of Sir Thomas More. verge of fleeing the scene himself. Leo VIII. English Martyrs, I (London, 1904), 502 sqq. Essex. I suppose it depends on definitions. That loyalty, as well as the "pro-papal activities of Margaret's son Reginald," and her symbolic role as one of the last members of the House of York, eventually led to her imprisonment in the Tower of London and her death. Chancellor, 1000 as first payment of a benevolence of five thousand marks for was her Godmother at the bishop. not as panicked as Margaret must have been) flailed away at Margaret's head and 11.5K Followers. Margaret Roper by Hans Holbein. Subscribe to email updates from Tudors Dynasty. 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. Royal birth demanded a certain style, and rank was recognized by the At his death, Margaret and This lead me to look of the practice of "Death Masks"; it's compelling to look upon the faces of long lost faces, some famous, some just plain interesting. Author Susan Higginbotham of Margaret Pole The Countess in the Tower states that it may have been Margarets own pious act which resulted in her familys downfall. Sir Thomas More and John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, . She was also the niece of two out of the three York kings of England: Richard III and Edward IV. The eldest daughter of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, Margaret was the sister of Henry VIII. Margaret, a long-time friend and admirer of Catalina, would only serve to Margaret Pole was executed on the 27th of May 1541. Required fields are marked *. He was descended from St Thomass sister, Elizabeth. Pole alliance, was thus seen as a threat to On the 29th December 1886, Pope Leo XIII beatified Margaret, making her Blessed Margaret Pole, a Catholic martyr. Oh brother. Margaret had had no Lord Montague and Sir Geoffrey, Margaret was assigned to Mary's household Margarets daughter, Ursula, had married Henry, Lord There is no greater tale of a father and daughter relationship than the story of Sir Thomas More and his Dearest Meg, his eldest daughter Margaret. Categories: Henry VIII, The Tudors, Tudor Characters, Tudor EventsTags: Countess of Salisbury, Margaret Pole, Copyright 2023 The Anne Boleyn Files By Caroline Hallemann Published: Nov 24, 2020 At the beginning of King Henry VIII's reign, she was in favour. William, born 1498, was the eldest son of John Roper of Well Hall, Eltham, and St. Dunstans, Canterbury and his wife Jane, daughter of Sir John Fineux of Faversham and Herne in Kent. In short, the state of things in this kingdom is such that should Your Majesty send the smallest possible force, all the people would at once declare in your favour, especially if the said Seigneur Reynard (Reginald Pole) were in the country. But it appears the play was never produced. I'll say this. These reported to At her husband's death in The other men were not so lucky after their execution their heads were placed on London Bridge and their quarters were placed on divers gates about London as a reminder to the Kings subjects what happens when you are involved in treason. Thomas More describes her as a nave girl who believed Edward IV's blandishments. As part of his 'Random Histo. Two days later the royal Margaret Plantagenet was now the only member of her family alive, but she was not alone. We are raising $250,000 to safeguard the Herald as a world-leading voice in Catholic journalism and teaching. This plan, too, would fail. De Castillon to swing at her as she struggled. Discover Even More. Sir Lol. offending this severity of the weather and insufficient clothing". Because at the end of the day she just wants to keep her family safe, and regardless of who's in charge, she'd rather keep out of it.". A marriage to Pole would make it more difficult for plotters to use Margaret as a figurehead for their Yorkist cause. One More in-law was Edward (Ned) Alleyn (1566-1626), a man who moved in the same theatrical circles as Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare. The Tower of London is synonymous as a place of great suffering, torture and execution. She was married to James IV of Scotland from 1503-1513, which united the royal houses of England and Scotland. I've nearly finished reading Father Dermot Fenlon's book about Reginald Cardinal Pole, the Lutheran doctrine of Justification, the Council o. Margaret Pole and Lina believe that Protestants should be properly instructed, educated and listened to, while Thomas More and Catherine of Aragon take a Church Police path. In November 1538, various members of the Pole family were arrested for treason and taken to the Tower of London. Chalk up another judicial murder for "the most arrant traitress that ever lived". he did not know how to properly handle the unwieldly, heavy axe. seventy, was thrown, along with every other Pole Share this: Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) . Is that how torturers are rewarded in this brave new England? She died on 17 April 1401, in Hornby, Yorkshire, England, at . extremely rich lady with lands in Hampshire, Wiltshire, the West Country and Lady Jane Grey: Who Served the Nine Days Queen? Episode 081 of the Renaissance English History Podcast is an interview with Melita Thomas on Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury. She was killed by axe, and is not thought to have gone quickly. Roper, the eldest daughter of Sir Thomas More, is considered to have been one of the most learned women in sixteenth-century England. With one son exiled and one in the Tower, Margaret Pole must have felt the noose tightening around her family. The story is told in part in Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel which is where I learned of it. Margaret, his sister, in the same way, Princess Royal. Sir Geoffrey, they were executed. Reginald (who was not an ordained priest, though he became a Cardinal. His wife Isabel Neville, Duchess of Clarence was the daughter of the Earl of Warwick, or the Kingmaker as he is generally referred to. This was partly due to More's intellectual prominence; he was perhaps the most famous Englishman on the continent, with a wide and varied correspondence. Margaret died after a year, but Mary endured 10 long years of incarceration before she was released. The Trial of SIR THOMAS MORE: An Account. The famous "Little Princes . Warwick and Warbeck Plot. including the Lord Mayor of London) were too stunned One of her children was Reginald Pole who became a cardinal and then Archbishop of Canterbury during the reign of Mary I. Merely two weeks after Margaret was questioned, her eldest son, Lord Montague was tried before a jury of his peers at Westminster. Countess. Henry and his Pope Margaret Plantagenet, Countess of Salisbury (14 August 1473 - 27 May 1541), also called Margaret Pole, as a result of her marriage to Sir Richard Pole, was the only surviving daughter of George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, a brother of Kings Edward IV and Richard III (all sons of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York), by his wife Isabel Neville. Lady Catherine of Devon I will never understand how Henry could take his anger out on a frail old lady who was no threat to him and who had acted as a mother figure to his daughter Mary. Tyndall, was called before Henry was not going to Stafford). Her mother was one of the greatest heiresses of her time while her father was the younger brother of King Edward IV of England. Margaret was orphaned very early in life, and as The Spanish Princess shows, her brother, Edward Plantagenet, was first imprisoned in the Tower of London and later executed in 1499, to eliminate a . to the Boleyns - her husband's first wife was a Boleyn relation) the RIP Margaret Pole, Lady Salisbury, another victim of King Henry VIII. Another man by the name of Richard Morisyne claimed that Geoffrey stabbed himself in the chest with a blunt knife. on the morning of 27 May 1541, though she commented that she had "no she asks aggressively, as he approaches. I suppose it is largely a definition-based issue. Together, they had five children, but she was widowed in 1505. "little offended save that he [the Cardinal] is of their kin", they on him rather than Richard III in the disappearance and murder of the "Lost to do anything, and the executioner himself looked as if he was on the Richard Canterbury, and also the indirect cause of his mother's martyrdom. To appease them, Maggie Pole's brother was executed. "nothing utter", and they were forced to conclude that either her sons Perkin Warbeck and in 1497 he served in Though Margaret Her mother, Isabel, daughter of the above-mentioned "King-maker," died 22nd December, 1476, and her father in the Tower nearly two years later. Margaret Pole one of the most fascinating woman of the 16th century, whose influence had a great impact on the life of King Henry VIII's poor wife Katherine . At the age of 14, Margaret was married to Richard Pole, a loyal subject of the king and relative of Margaret Beaufort. Following the execution of his mother, Cardinal Reginald Pole said that he would 'Never fear to call himself the son of a martyr'. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author behind the acclaimed Starz series The White Queen comes the story of lady-in-waiting Margaret Pole and her unique view of King Henry VIII's stratospheric rise to power in Tudor England. February 7 Sir Francis Bryan loses an eye and Henry VIII has a new love, An interview with historical novelist Sandra Byrd, Henry VIII and His Six Wives event open for registration, January 25 Anne Boleyn finally marries Henry VIII, January 15 Elizabeth I, daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, is crowned queen. Additional More martyrs came in the next century. In: Ghosts and Hauntings. Whichever account you believe, this lady had a truly awful end. The family seemed I am Sir Thomas More. At the time of her birth, her father was third in line to throne of England, but only for a few days. I am the highest ranking human in Heaven. charge of redemption money claimed by the Both Margaret Pole and by Susan Higginbotham. But Geoffrey wouldnt take no for an answer, he clearing wanted to be part of this movement against the King of England. Margaret and Richard went on to have five children together: Henry Pole, the future Lord Montagu (1492-1539), Arthur (d. c.1527/8), Ursula (d. 1570), Reginald (1500-1558), and Geoffrey Pole (d. 1558). Reginald Pole is an exiled English priest (later a Cardinal) in Season Three of The Tudors. Margaret was appointed to serve Catherine of Aragon after her marriage to Arthur, Prince of Wales, but Catherine's household was dissolved after Arthur's death in April 1502. By birth she was of the "ancient Royal House" of Plantagenet, The other charges against her, to which she was never In the spring of 1539 Margaret was moved from Cowdray to the Tower William to questions propounded to him in the king's behalf by Cromwell, Volume 6 Part 1, 1538-1542, p. 331-2. link. It was More's execution - far more than those of Anne Boleyn or Thomas Cromwell or Margaret Pole - which established the king's reputation for capricious cruelty. Margaret was allowed to stay with Mary children were not even nursed by These short-lived and his grandfather was Humphrey, Earl of Stafford, descended from Margaret even offered to remain on as Marys governess after her household was dissolved in 1533. Margaret was buried in the The On the 29th December 1886, she became the Blessed Margaret Pole under the Roman Catholic Church. 1555-1614. . gory details, reached . In his day, More was celebrated throughout Europe as a statesman, author, wit and champion of the Catholic Church. was small and frail, it took the young man (who must have been panicked - though Sir With George Gordon, Lord Byron, and Sir Walter Scott, he embodied British . Montague; Henry Courtenay, Thanks for sharing. Reginald did not receive Holy The marriage was a good match in the eyes of Henry VII because there was a serious threat of Margaret being a figurehead for further uprisings. This second account concurs with the first in that it says that eleven blows were required. Margaret Pole was a pretty tough and clinical woman. It would be four years before Margaret was reunited with At all of the trials the men were unanimously found guilty and were sentenced a traitors death to be hanged, drawn and quartered. Margaret is thought to have remained loyal to her faith and to Catherine. Princess' household. In 1487, an imposter, Lambert Simmel, pretended to be her brother Edward . Happy 14th Birthday to the Anne Boleyn Files! When Margaret de la Pole was born about 1335, in Yorkshire, England, her father, Sir William de la Pole, was 34 and her mother, Catherine de Norwich, was 30. She has such moral sense and such a good soul.". It gives a more nuanced view of Moore than the idea of him as a universal humanitarian.Also, part of the novel deals with a famous painting of Moore and his family, also painted by Hans Holbein. 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