Jan 2016 - Mar 20226 years 3 months. Sir Thomas Pole was a member of the aristocracy in England. Despite such evidence of royal favor, it is likely that More chafed at his service to the king. Ironically, it was his own honesty and probity which ensured his continued service to Henry. Managed all schedules for company and . His work at Bruges and, later, Calais, as well as his continuing duties as undersheriff in London, were clear evidence of his skill and popularity. Pole, Reginald (1500-58). Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons: A Play in Two Acts. In 1535, Englands ambassador began suggesting that Reginald Pole marry Henrys daughter Mary. After her husband's death, Margaret acted as regent for her son James V, from 1513-1515. The veteran plotter Gertrude Courtenay was treated with clemency; unlike Margaret, she was not a free agent but a married woman subject to her husband, and not a claimant to the throne in her own right. There have been rumors of an alleged relationship with Lady Margaret (see the White Queen series, for example). When Arthur married Catherine of Aragon, she became a lady-in-waiting to the princess. In the end, he could not be persuaded. Looking to her last end, Margaret commissioned a chantry at Christchurch Priory. It is only in adversity that Margaret shows herself, in the records of her interrogations, when she was a woman in her sixties, experienced, shrewd, hard to frighten. May 28, 2015. It was Gertrude Courtenay, Marchioness of Exeter, who claimed to be brittle and fragile; one of the most persistent of the aristocratic plotters against Henry, she was in trouble in 1533 for her contacts with Elizabeth Barton, the Nun of Kent, whose florid line in prophecy was discomfiting to the regime. He was made knight of the Garter, and appointed chamberlain to the young Prince of Wales. Mr Buxton has returned to live quietly in Cranford following . He was first appointed a Privy Councilor and accompanied Wolsey to an important diplomatic mission to Europe. This phrase has been interpreted as meaning Edward was of low intelligence; it only means that he was unworldly, and Higginbotham sees this. 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. 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. London Review of Books ), St. Marie's Church in New Bilton, Rugby, England. Her first son, Henry Pole, was created Baron Montagu, another of the Neville titles, speaking for the family in the House of Lords. Henry VII also decided, about that time, to marry the 15-year-old Margaret to his half-cousin, Sir Richard Pole. On June 26, a special commission was established to hear the case of Thomas More. His months of peace ended in 1533, when he refused to attend the coronation of Anne Boleyn. Henry, the eldest son, though knighted and given the family title Lord Montagu, did not share the general admiration for the king. 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. Read More. It took the inexperience executioner a grand total of 11 swings to finally sever her head at the neck . He was sentenced to a traitors death to be drawn, hanged, and quartered but the king changed it to beheading. As part of the investigations into the so-called Exeter Conspiracy, Geoffrey Pole was arrested in August 1538. The danger the Tudors saw lay not in the present disposition of the Pole family who vehemently protested their loyalty but in their claim to the throne, and in Reginalds actions while he was out of the jurisdiction. A devoted Catholic, More refuses to sign Parliament's Act of Supremacy, which declares King Henry, and not the Pope, the Supreme Head of the new Church of England. Utopia is a complex and witty work which describes a city-state ruled entirely by reason. 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. There was a feeling in England that a new era had begun. When that daughters father-in-law was executed by Henry VIII, the Pole family fell out of favor briefly, but regained favor. He has been held up to schoolchildren for centuries as the most. Margaret's third son, Reginald Pole, studied abroad in Padua. Was More surprised by this speech? . Margaret was superfluous; curtly, Henry wrote her off as a fool. He never explicitly courted controversy, but he felt compelled to answer the reformers such as William Tyndale. [9] Her youngest son, Geoffrey Pole, married well to Constance, daughter of Edmund Pakenham, and inherited the estate of Lordington in Sussex. 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. Quite the opposite. 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!. She was head of her family, a magnate with vast resources in men and money; any disaffection on her part was dangerous. Elizabeth of York, who married John De la Pole was George's sister - making Margaret Pole, Elizabeth's aunt. Mores wife had been like most women of her time ill-educated, and during their brief marriage, he taught her Latin and other subjects. His home at Chelsea was as close as Tudor England would come to an 18th century French salon. He wore many hats: chief diplomat, speechwriter, advisor. More would have to either acknowledge the kings spiritual supremacy and marriage to Anne Boleyn, or he would die. 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]. Columbus, Ohio Area. So yes, the Pole family were cousins to de la Pole family. Reginald also urged the princes of Europe to depose Henry immediately. Henry was wise enough to state his case and let it go, for a little while at least. 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. https://www.thoughtco.com/margaret-pole-tudor-matriarch-and-martyr-3530618 (accessed March 1, 2023). On 1 July 1535, he was indicted on high treason. (We should note, however, that More brilliant and perceptive was never especially comfortable in his kings good graces. Perhaps the contrast with the quiet, gentle Jane was too striking. Margaret Pole was born about four years after her parents had married, and was the first child born after the couple lost their first child on board a ship fleeing to France during the Wars of the Roses. Her maternal grandfather was killed fighting against her uncle, Edward IV, at the Battle of Barnet. [23] Her remains were later uncovered when the chapel was renovated in 1876.[24][25]. 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. Born in 1473 into a world of bloody dynastic feuds, she survived under the first Tudor and thrived under the second, until she and her family, long suspected of plots against the regime, were destroyed. In May 1539 Henry, Margaret, Exeter and others were attainted, as Margaret's father had been. Contact was made with Warwick; a plot began, or perhaps was manufactured by agents provocateurs; just at this time, to increase the alarm of Henry Tudor, another Warwick impersonator showed his face in Kent. But Lord Montagu attended Annes coronation as he would later attend her trial. 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. More importantly, he developed a personal relationship with Henry VIII, and because known as the kings intellectual courtier. The countess was to look after the little girls health and diet, ensure that she did not wear herself out in learning French and Latin, and see that her immediate environment was kept spotless, so that everything about her be pure, sweet, clean and wholesome, as to so great a princess doth appertain. Gender: Male. This conviction meant they lost their titles and their landsmostly in the South of England--conveniently located to assist any invasion. More's trial took place on 1 July. (Margarets paternal aunt, Margaret of Burgundy, supported Perkin Warbecks conspiracy, hoping to restore the Yorkists to power.) His choice was Jane Colt, the eldest daughter of a gentleman farmer. Elizabeth Throckmorton. [10], When Mary was declared a bastard in 1533, Margaret refused to give Mary's gold plate and jewels back to Henry. 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? She had a small estate of land, inherited from her husband, but no other income and no prospects. She answered that no crime had been imputed to her. After his death, and for centuries thereafter, Sir Thomas More was known as the most famous victim of Henry VIIIs tyranny. As part of the evidence for the bill of attainder, Cromwell produced a tunic bearing the Five Wounds of Christ, symbolizing Margaret's support for the Church of Rome and the rule of her son, Reginald, and the king's Roman Catholic daughter, Mary. 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. Margaret Pole was restored to a position as lady-in-waiting, which helped her financial situation. When her husband died in 1505, Margaret became a widow with five children. After his death, and for centuries thereafter, Sir Thomas More was known as the most famous victim of Henry VIII's tyranny. Henry still hoped for Mores support. [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. [11], In 1531, Reginald Pole warned of the dangers of the Boleyn marriage. Margaret Pole was one of only two women in the 16 th century to hold a peerage in her own right. But in the meantime, More had eighteen months of seclusion and study at his home in Chelsea. 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. But he knew what was coming. This was partly due to Mores intellectual prominence; he was perhaps the most famous Englishman on the continent, with a wide and varied correspondence. 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. If he had trusted her once, he no longer did so. 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. The prestige of her ancient family, her traditionalist stance in religion, and her status as a peer in her own right all these defined a woman who might wish to resist the new order. To my principles!". Anne was the anointed queen. Those two could only get along for short while before things got heated. Jane Colt, the duke of Norfolk, took care to warn him of his,... 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