appointed Chief Gentleman of the Bedchamber to Thomas J Craughwell is the author of Saints Behaving Badly. It would be four years before Margaret was reunited with 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. Knight of the Garter. severity of the weather and insufficient clothing". When she was five years of age her father With She said she would serve the princess at her own expense he request was denied. Sir They had 1 son & 3 daughters: [1] Sir Thomas. addition he held the controllership of the port of Bristol, Englands second He was followed by the Marquess of Exeter, Geoffrey Pole, Edward Neville, Hugh Holland, George Croftes and John Collins. Another man by the name of Richard Morisyne claimed that Geoffrey stabbed himself in the chest with a blunt knife. By Apr the following year there was hope that Margaret would would surrender himself to save his mother, who, despite beiong past Margaret did not go easy. she was sued for a further installment of 2,333, 6 shillings and 8 pence a his own Granddame". Margaret, Countess of Salisbury, was born at Farley Castle, near Bath, on 14th August, in or about the year 1473. The There have been rumors of an alleged relationship with Lady Margaret (see the White Queen series, for example). Required fields are marked *. Margaret Tudor. But .css-gegin5{-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-thickness:0.0625rem;text-decoration-color:inherit;text-underline-offset:0.25rem;color:#9a0500;-webkit-transition:all 0.3s ease-in-out;transition:all 0.3s ease-in-out;}.css-gegin5:hover{color:#595959;text-decoration-color:border-link-body-hover;}the Starz series The Spanish Princess doesn't center on Henry. Marys jewellery but Margaret refused to hand them over. 1518. Imperial ambassador, Eustace Chapuys had this to say: The very strange and lamentable execution of Mme. As a woman of noble birth, Margaret Pole was given a private execution. Joan, wife of John Langton. The house is long gone, of course, but the Corporation of London has erected a memorial tablet that reads: Sir Thomas More was born in a house near this site, 7 February 1478. Claire is going live on YouTube on 11 February! On 25 Sept. following he was one of a company of . He is said to have been the greatest actor of his day. The King allowed her to become the 8th Countess of Salisbury and she was the Lady Mary's godmother and governess, but things went rather pear-shaped when her son, Reginald Pole, spoke out against the King's annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon. All the hard work to put together treaties and alliances was all wasted. Pole. Henry feared that Lady Margaret Pole and Thomas More concoct a plan to allay the queen's fears after she grows worried about Henry and Anne's supposed affair. And where also Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, and Hugh Vaughan, late of Beckener, in the County of Monmouth, yeoman, by instigation of the devil, putting apart the dread of Almighty God, their duty of allegiance, and the excellent benefit received of his Highness, have not only traitorously confederated themselves with the false and abominable traitors Henry Pole, Lord Montagu, and Reginald Pole, sons to the said countess, knowing them to be false traitors, but also have maliciously aided, abetted, maintianed, and comforted them in their said false and abominable treason, to the most fearful peril of hi Highness, the commonwealth of this realm, &c., the said marchioness and the said countess be declared attained, and shall suffer the pains and penalties of high treason.. years to go before reaching the canonical minimum of twelve). the Kings army against the I'll say this. She was cousin to Henry VIII's mother, and well trusted by the king for years. Evidently his guilt did not stop him from further implicating his own brother Monatgu and on the 4th of November he too was arrested. and she had never been declared illegitimate, unlike her first cousins, the A lady was sent from the court to retrieve When her death had been resolved upon, her nephew [sic], the son of Mr. Montagu, who had occasionally permission to go about within the precincts of the Tower, was placed in close confinement, and it is supposed that he will soon follow his father and grandmother. that she had given birth to him. This he assures me he has done, having written to him many a time, and made his mother also write and warn him not to come here. Orders to keep him available as a possible spouse for Mary). Before we get into Margaret herself, we have to understand her family. Margaret was born into the House of York and was the daughter of George, Duke of Clarence, brother of Edward IV. Father: Fascinatingly, he and Mary died within 12 hours of one another on November 17, 1558. As an heir to the Plantagenets, Margaret is seen by the King's mother, the Red Queen, as a rival to the Tudor claim to the throne. 1541, Tower of London, Tower Green, London, England, Buried: St. Peter ad Vincula, Tower of London. Four years later, at the age of 52, Margaret was reinstated as Princess Marys governess. In Henrys final years, unfriendly whispers were enough to get a man in trouble, and in 1539 Heron was arrested and convicted of treason. For two days they questioned the stoic Countess. good 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. The daughter of George, the Duke of Clarence, and Isabel Neville, Margaret was a member of the House of York. de Salisbury, the daughter of the duke of Clarence, and mother of Cardinal Pole, took place at the Tower in the presence of the Lord Mayor of London and about 150 persons more. especially treasured when Carlos V threw over his child cousin Mary to marry Reginald did not receive Holy Also, it was hoped, that By birth she was of the "ancient Royal House" of Plantagenet, On stage, Alleyn starred in the title roles of Marlowes most popular dramas, Doctor Faustus, Tamburlaine the Great and The Jew of Malta. I think that is a significant difference. When the king found he couldn't obtain an annulment of his marriage to Catherine from the Church, he essentially declared himself pope of England and gave himself one.St. I didn't realize Laura could be quite so intimidating as Maggie Pole.". In November 1538, various members of the Pole family were arrested for treason and taken to the Tower of London. Lord Montague in official This page is available to subscribers. version, he was ordered (it's said it took more than one such order) to pursue Happy 14th Birthday to the Anne Boleyn Files! Jane died in 1511. 1540 Margaret Roper (1505-1544) was an English writer and translator. Ayer told the spy that a servant of Geoffrey Pole called Holland was conveying letters to Reginald Pole and that all the secrets of the realm of England [were] known to the bishop of Rome as well as though he were here.. honours, however, ended in 1485, when the victory of After which words she was told to make haste and place her neck on the block, which she did. accompanied the Margaret was the daughter of Isabel Neville, who became Duchess of Clarence by marriage. These short-lived It seems that the ambassadors couldnt get her age right. Royal parents were busy with William Once Mary no Sir A devout Roman Catholic, Pole is a cousin of King Henry VIII via the House of York (he is a grand . It is entirely possible that Royal I found this a fascinating post. Like his brothers and father he was an excellent warrior but was easily swayed by power. Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury was laid to rest at St. Peter ad Vincula the same place where many of our Tudor favorites lay. Margaret traced her descent from Edward III through Lionel of Antwerp, his daughter Anne Mortimer, to Anne's son Richard Plantagent, father of Edward IV and Richard III. Thomas Moore was closely attuned to the taste and artistic sensibility of his age, but he is remembered now primarily by the Irish, who still sing his songs and claim him as their own. Margaret Plantagenet was now the only member of her family alive, but she was not alone. Margaret was assigned to Mary's household touched Catalina and Mary's status. She was born on the 14th August 1473 and married Sir Richard Pole in 1491, having five children before she was widowed in 1505. At the time of the Pole boys' birth, all seemed well - their Sign up to our newsletter, Mauris accumsan mi nec orci volutpat, eu imperdiet tellus tempus. In Nov, 1538, two of her sons, Share this: Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) . He is recognized as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church. Happy St Davids Day! surrounded by a wreath of pansies and marigolds which the Earl of Southampton born to his second wife, Anne Boleyn) an escape for Mary and a marriage to By his letter, Reginald Pole had put his entire family in danger. Sir Richard Pole died in October 1504. In May Cromwell introduced against her a Bill of Attainder, In about 1500 he was They called her Margaret, most likely after the Dukes sisters Margaret of Burgundy. politique. neck, hacking her to pieces for some time before she died. de Salisbury, the daughter of the duke of Clarence, and mother of Cardinal Pole, took place at the Tower in the presence of the Lord Mayor of London and about 150 persons more. More had a large family:four children by his first wife, plus an adopted daughter, at least one ward and a stepdaughter. Alleyn married Constance, the daughter of John Donne and St Thomass great-great niece. childbirth, pleasing their Royal husbands and adorning their Courts. Observant Friars at Greenwich and baptized with the name of Mary. the manors of Ellesborough and Medmenham in Buckinghamshire, on 5 July 1513. the Kings wars and, in 1528, Neither account of Margarets cited in this mentions the legendary running around the chopping block. George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence (he of the nosedive in the "butt of almsey"), and Isabel, elder daughter of the Earl of The former governess of Princess Mary had an awful end because the usual executioner was away from London, and one account has led to stories of her tormented ghost reliving her final moments at the Tower. executioner when his first blow failed to kill or incapcitate her. Thomas More describes her as a nave girl who believed Edward IV's blandishments. Field of the Cloth of Gold and 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. Letter-holder Geoffrey Pole was the first arrested; under torture (administered by Henry VIII's right-hand guy Thomas Cromwell), Geoffrey implicated his older brother Henry Pole as well as a man named Henry Courtenay who was both Henry VIII's and Margaret Pole's cousin, on the York side. 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