It states that Margaret refused to lay her head on the block, declaiming, "So should traitors do, and I am none". 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. 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.. When Henry began to poll the European universities about the legality of his annulment, he chose Reginald to visit the Sorbonne, and had no fault to find with the way he carried out his mission. In: Ghosts and Hauntings. In the end, he decided, in the words of his friend Erasmus, to be a chaste husband rather than an impure priest.. In January 1539 Geoffrey was pardoned, but Margaret's son, Henry, Baron Montagu (and cousin Exeter), were later executed for treason after trial. The remnants of the Plantagenets had no difficulty in breeding, while the Tudors were less lucky. Because she was a girl Margaret did not represent the same threat. Henry VIII married Catherine of Aragon in 1509 and Margaret was again appointed as one of her ladies-in-waiting. Arthur had been a courtier, an able jouster and a great favourite with Henry, serving in his privy chamber. The two children were of use to him; their maternal family, the Nevilles, commanded allegiance in the north. More importantly, he developed a personal relationship with Henry VIII, and because known as the kings intellectual courtier. He was a half-cousin of the first Tudor king, Henry VII; Richard Poles mother was a half-sister of, Reginald Pole, a cardinal and papal diplomat, last Roman Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury, Geoffrey Pole, who went into exile in Europe when accused of conspiracy by Henry VIII. But if the weather turns nasty you up with an anchor and let it down where there's less wind, and the fishing's better. 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. 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. The Duke of Clarence plotted against Edward IV and in February 1478 was attainted and executed for treason. 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. His father recalled him to London and he trained as a law student at New Inn and later Lincolns Inn. He waited five days before being summoned to the scaffold on Tower Hill. You may not of heard of Margaret Pole so I will fill you in because her death was quite brutal and makes an interesting read, (if you like the darker side of the Tudors). The king added that his lack of a legitimate son was clear proof of Gods displeasure. 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. In fact she was 67. A possible portrait of Margaret Pole (c. 1535). Margaret Pole ended up becoming a Catholic martyr. The little Earl of Warwick remained alive and shut away. (Margarets paternal aunt, Margaret of Burgundy, supported Perkin Warbecks conspiracy, hoping to restore the Yorkists to power.) After his death, and for centuries thereafter, Sir Thomas More was known as the most famous victim of Henry VIIIs tyranny. Thomas More (1478-1535), lawyer and moral philosopher, is still regarded by many Catholics as the quintessential good man. When you visit the site, Dotdash Meredith and its partners may store or retrieve information on your browser, mostly in the form of cookies. Stoke was a decisive victory. Henry needed a son and heir. Margaret reminded Reginald what they all owed to the Tudors, and urged him to give up his enterprise, to take another way and serve the king: his renegade actions, she said, had plunged her into grief and fear, and trust me, Reginald, there never went the death of thy father or of any child so nigh my heart. Thomas Cromwell, who spied efficiently on the whole family, tried to have Reginald abducted or assassinated. Margaret Pole, Tudor Matriarch and Martyr. And he was a father who insisted his three daughters have the same education as his son. Richard Pole was appointed to the household of Arthur, eldest son of Henry VII and Prince of Wales, heir apparent. 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. Margaret Pole was George Duke of Clarence daughter. She was a patron of the New Learning, like many Renaissance noblewomen; Gentian Hervet had translated Erasmus' de immensa misericordia Dei (The Great Mercy of God) into English for her. It took the inexperience executioner a grand total of 11 swings to finally sever her head at the neck . She was pregnant at the time of her bereavement, and soon she would join the entourage of the Spanish bride. In an effort to force their co-operation, Henry separated his wife and child, and Margaret who was Marys godmother offered to serve the young girl at her own expense. As a newly elected representative for London in Parliament and an undersheriff in the city, he was deeply involved in public life. Her father, Duke of Clarence and brother to Edward IV, switched sides several times during that long family battle over the crown of England. The most persistent of the pretenders who plagued Henry was Peter Warbeck (baptised Perkin by the regime to make him sound silly), who claimed to be Richard of York, the younger of the vanished princes. 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. 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]. 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. The king financed Richards funeral. And because of his early education in religious matters, Henry was no mere spectator in religious debate. Mores piety was the defining aspect of his character; even as the circumstances of his life changed, it remained constant and unyielding. London Review of Books [1] He was the son of Michael de la Pole, 1st Earl of Suffolk and Katherine Wingfield . Then, her prayers completed, she faced the incompetent axeman. In 1509, when Henry VIII came to the throne after his fathers death, he married his brothers widow, Catherine of Aragon. This was an obvious lie; More had never said anything of the sort to any other visitor, why Rich? And More determined that their daughters would receive the same education as their son. 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. As a boy, More spent some time in the household of John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury. After Henry VIII and then his son Edward VI had died, and Mary I was queen, with the intention to restore England to Roman authority, Reginald Pole was appointed papal legate to England by the Pope. Her father was Shakespeares false, fleeting, perjured Clarence, who died in the Tower of London at the age of 29, attainted for treason and supposedly drowned in a butt of malmsey. In 1499, Margarets brother Edward apparently tried to escape from the Tower of London to take part in the plot of Perkin Warbeck who claimed to be their cousin, Richard, one of the sons of Edward IV who had been taken to the Tower of London under Richard III and whose fate was not clear. She answered that no crime had been imputed to her. 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. He impressed the cardinal enough that he was knighted upon his return and made under-treasurer of the Exchequer. It was children who caused him a problem. [9] Her youngest son, Geoffrey Pole, married well to Constance, daughter of Edmund Pakenham, and inherited the estate of Lordington in Sussex. (2020, August 26). And More was more convinced than ever that he needed to leave royal service. After Henry's second wife, Anne Boleyn, was arrested, and eventually executed, Margaret was permitted to return to Court, albeit briefly. And so he was. She was cousin to Henry VIII's mother, and well trusted by the king for years. She was, Pierce says, intelligent, unquestionably virtuous, traditionally pious, and possessed an easy familiarity with the convoluted etiquette of a royal court. He has been held up to schoolchildren for centuries as the most. He grew up cultivated and cosmopolitan, sensitive, lively-minded. That was clear to Cromwell almost from the first, and perhaps to More, too. He later characterized this as abandonment by his mother, and bitterly resented it for much of his life, although he became an important figure in the church. She was executed in 1541, the act of attainder rendering a trial unnecessary. Birth City: London, England. His lands and titles were thereby forfeited. Eleanor was related through marriage to Lady Margaret Beaufort's extended family.) [27] She is commemorated in the dedication of the Church of Our Lady Queen of Peace & Blessed Margaret Pole in Southbourne, Bournemouth.[28]. As part of the investigations into the so-called Exeter Conspiracy, Geoffrey Pole was arrested in August 1538. It gave the king pause, and More was allowed to return home. Margaret Pole was one of only two women in the 16th century to hold a peerage in her own right. 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. It was a small mercy. After her husband's death, Margaret acted as regent for her son James V, from 1513-1515. Neither Francis I of France nor the Emperor supported this effort and the English government tried to have Reginald assassinated. The boy, born in 1519, was welcome proof to Henry that he could father a son and that his lack of an heir was entirely Katharines fault. Her life, marked by stunning reversals of fortune, is an irresistible subject, but it presents a familiar difficulty for the historian. The supposed discovery, six months after her house and effects were searched at her arrest, is likely to have been a fabrication. And why such an obvious and clumsy admission? My faithfulness stands fast and so, Together, they had five children, but she was widowed in 1505. Margarets aunt, Anne Neville, thus became queen. May 28, 2015. Her many fortified houses and castles, the number of tenants she could turn out, the belligerent propaganda from abroad all these brought the whole family into deep suspicion. This More was fully prepared to do. Margaret is the main character of Samantha Wilcoxson's 2016 novel, Dwyer, J.G. Henry VII also decided, about that time, to marry the 15-year-old Margaret to his half-cousin, Sir Richard Pole. For Mores part, he undoubtedly appreciated his second wifes superb housekeeping skills for they allowed him the freedom to pursue his increasingly successful career. 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). The sitter might as well be carved, for all she suggests flesh or circulating blood. 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. On 27th May, in 1541 Margaret Pole, niece of Richard III and Edward IV, was executed at the command of Henry VIII. More would stand trial for his life. Born on the 14th August 1473, she went on to marry Sir Richard Pole in 1491. 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 was superfluous; curtly, Henry wrote her off as a fool. When her husband died in 1505, Margaret became a widow with five children. Reginald was the most interesting and talented of Margarets children, and the one to whom she was not close. Yesterday we travailed with the Lady of Salisbury all day before and after noon, till almost night. Sometimes the questioners were mild, sometimes roughly spoken, traitoring her and her sons to the ninth degree yet will she nothing utter. Margaret continued not uttering, or uttering no proof of treason. Bishop of Rochester, and Sir Thomas More, once Chancellor of England and a close royal friend, had both . Higginbothams narrative begins with this bungled beheading so either the jacket designer was in the dark about the contents, or someone at her publisher has a mordant sense of humour. She was an apt enough pupil to later converse with visitors in Latin. Her father was the younger brother of Edward IV and Richard III. I am no traitor, no, not I! When historical novelists are looking for ways to empower their heroines they opt for making them hotshot herbalists or minxy witches. Margarets brother was 24. The eldest daughter of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, Margaret was the sister of Henry VIII. In 1886, Margaret would be beatified by Pope Leo XIII as a martyr to Henrys regime. His father was not supportive, but More was fully prepared to be disowned rather than disobey Gods will. It was during this trip that he began to write Utopia, his most famous work. Nor make one step, as you shall see; Now he decided to seriously test his religious convictions. Please include name, address and a telephone number. More was not a man to be broken by prison, but he suffered physically. Retrieved from https://www.thoughtco.com/margaret-pole-tudor-matriarch-and-martyr-3530618. Shortly thereafter, (probably in November 1487) Henry VII gave Margaret in marriage to his cousin, Sir Richard Pole, whose mother was a half-sister of the king's mother, Margaret Beaufort. Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury (14 August 1473 - 27 May 1541), was an English peeress.She was the daughter of George, Duke of Clarence, and Isabel Neville and was niece of kings Edward IV and Richard III.Margaret was one of two women in 16th-century England to be a peeress in her own right with no titled husband. He wore many hats: chief diplomat, speechwriter, advisor. Soon, young Edward, a potential York claimant to the throne, was moved to the Tower of London. Henry VII had controlled them first while her brother was a minor and then during his imprisonment; he later confiscated them after his trial. Joan (Margaret) Pole ca 1333-Married toThomas Chaworth ca 1331-1373 Paternal grand-parents, uncles and aunts. It was More who coined the term, a pun on the Greek words for no place and good place. Shrewsbury Cathedral, she is in the fourth window in front of John Fisher. 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.. ), St. Marie's Church in New Bilton, Rugby, England. 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]. She also had restored to her the title to the Earldom of Salisbury. (We should note, however, that More brilliant and perceptive was never especially comfortable in his kings good graces. Margaret and her son, Henry, pressed Arthur's widow to take a vow of perpetual chastity to preserve her inheritance for her Pole children. Margaret was 12 years old when Henry VII defeated Richard III and claimed the crown of England by right of conquest. Mortons tax philosophy was a marvel of inescapable logic: If the subject is seen to live frugally, tell him because he is clearly a money saver of great ability, he can afford to give generously to the King. When Reginald was seven, and Margaret a widow with an uncertain future, she sent him to be educated at Sheen with the monks of the Charterhouse. Nothing worked. His resignation was at first not accepted. Henry was negotiating a glorious marriage for Prince Arthur, to a daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella. Where is Hans Holbein when you need him? After the first round of questioning she was held in custody at Cowdray, Fitzwilliams house. Pole and his hagiographers gave several later accounts of Pole's activities after Henry met Anne Boleyn. But his older brother perished and the younger brother was crowned at 18 years old, and quickly wed his brothers widow. Margaret was perhaps guilty only by association, but at this distance it is impossible to tell. Thomas More was born on 7 February 1478 in London, the son of a successful lawyer. In May 1539 Henry, Margaret, Exeter and others were attainted, as Margaret's father had been. 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. at, Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March (conflation of, This page was last edited on 21 February 2023, at 21:21. 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. There are only glimpses of her in these years: my lady Margaret of Clarence. Mores adolescent years were spent under the reign of Henry VII, the first Tudor king. The new pretender, Ralph Wilford, was arrested and killed before the conspiracy bred any action. (Edward would have had a better right to the throne as son of Richards older brother.) Both Henry and Reginald Pole were attainted in 1539; Geoffrey was pardoned. When not at Court, Margaret lived chiefly at Warblington Castle in Hampshire and Bisham Manor in Berkshire. Calculate relationship; Relationship with x x (Sosa/Ahnentafel #1) Relationship with Thomas Chaworth (spouse) More . Based in North Carolina, Higginbotham is a lawyer by background and has written several historical novels, spanning different eras. Margaret's mother was the eldest daughter of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick. His home at Chelsea was as close as Tudor England would come to an 18th century French salon. 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. More also engaged in a public war of words on the kings behalf with Martin Luther, the father of the Reformation. For highlights from the latest issue, our archive and the blog, as well as news, events and exclusive promotions. 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. Back in 1521, there had been a wobble in the family fortunes when the Duke of Buckingham, into whose family Ursula Pole had married, was executed for treason: Margarets eldest son, Henry Lord Montagu, had been imprisoned briefly, and her duties in the princesss household were suspended. [11], In 1531, Reginald Pole warned of the dangers of the Boleyn marriage. Pole, niece of both Edward IV and Richard III, was the only woman apart from Anne Boleyn to hold a peerage in her own right during the . 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. Please change your browser settings to allow Javascript content to run. Or was there, as she claimed, nothing worth burning? 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. Margarets daughter Ursula would have 13 children, and three of her four sons would marry heiresses and have large families. Did she, as the regime alleged, burn the evidence that incriminated her? Margaret remained in the Tower of London for more than two years. He handled his responsibilities with his usual skill, but it was a balancing act, and an increasingly dangerous one. In the spring of 1536 the Boleyn family were destroyed, and the Pole family and other English grandees grouped themselves about the incoming queen, Jane Seymour. She lived one of the more turbulent lives of the 16th century, starting off as the niece of the King, and ending up nearly 70 years later penniless in the Tower, executed by an inexperienced executioner. 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. Birth Year: 1478. But eventually the break between the king and his chief minister could not be ignored. 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. In 1529, he represented Henry VIII in Paris, persuading the theologians of the Sorbonne to support Henry's divorce from Catherine of Aragon. St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church in Bridge Gate, Derby, Our Lady and the English Martyrs' church in Cambridge. Margaret Plantagenet, Countess of Salisbury (14 August 1473 - 28 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 . Edward IV declared that Margaret's younger brother, Edward, should be known as Earl of Warwick as a courtesy title, but no peerage was ever created for him. But Reginald stayed in Italy through the reign of Anne Boleyn supposedly preparing a learned statement on the kings case. Ironically, it was his own honesty and probity which ensured his continued service to Henry. She is a former faculty member of the Humanist Institute. When she reached her teens, a marriage was arranged with Richard Pole, a modest landowner with solid Tudor connections, who had been rewarded for loyalty by being made constable of several Welsh castles. Our Lady of Lourdes in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. She managed her lands quite well, and became one of the five or six wealthiest peers in England. Both men were enthusiastic Humanist scholars, but they parted ways with regard to the kings prerogative. The trial of Sir Thomas More for treason opened in Westminster Hall on July 1, 1535. [5] When Perkin Warbeck impersonated Edward IV's presumed-dead son, Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York, in 1499, Margaret's brother Edward was attainted and executed for involvement in the plot. We know her, as we know so many of her contemporaries, through her inventories, through legal documents and official letters. Geoffrey appealed to Thomas Cromwell, who had him arrested and interrogated. 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. He could now only write to his wife and favorite daughter Margaret with a piece of coal or burnt stick on scraps of paper. She is a close student of the sources, and careful not to stuff her novels with false excitements. Margaret was 14, and probably remained at court rather than living with her husband. [23] Her remains were later uncovered when the chapel was renovated in 1876.[24][25]. Susan Higginbotham. 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. Henry accepted Mores resignation. Those two could only get along for short while before things got heated. The Execution of a Duke. In 1539 Henry VIII allowed (or ordered) Thomas Cromwell to throw Lady Salisbury into the . Such was his reputation that the the great universities Oxford and Cambridge made him high steward. 83 ratings9 reviews. And he was well-connected enough to later secure his sons appointment as household page to John Morton, the archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Chancellor of England. On the scaffold, Margaret prayed for the royal family all except Anne Boleyns daughter, Elizabeth, whom she regarded as illegitimate. Mary's household was broken up at the end of the year, and Margaret asked to serve Mary at her own cost, but was not permitted. [12] In May 1536, Reginald finally and definitively broke with the king. He was keenly interested in theology, but he was not ordained; he was free to marry if he wished, and propagate a Plantagenet family. Fortunately for the old cardinal, he died before the king could kill him. London, WC1A 2HNletters@lrb.co.uk 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. The chronology defeated observers, as if her life stretched back into a fabulous era when dragons roamed. Her second son, Arthur Pole, had a generally successful career as a courtier, becoming one of the six Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber. The picture was cleaned in 1973, and study suggested that some original features have almost vanished. Henry VIII helped provide good marriages or religious offices for Margarets sons, and a good marriage for her daughter as well. BORN: 1473. Their destruction came with a wave of arrests in the autumn of 1538. 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. 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. Birth date: February 7, 1478. But not before Lina imparted . When Catherine of Aragon gave birth to a daughter, Mary, Margaret Pole was asked to be one of the godmothers. Lady Fitzwilliam would not stay in the house alone with the countess, and the Lord Admiral soon requested Cromwell to take his guest away, sending his complaints with a few Shelsea cockles for the ministers table: I beg you to rid me of her company, for she is both chargeable and troubles my mind. 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