Posted By Claire on May 27, 2012. Six months later, Cromwell produced a tunic marked with the wounds of Christ, claiming it had been found in that search, and used that to arrest Margaret, though most doubt that. This phrase has been interpreted as meaning Edward was of low intelligence; it only means that he was unworldly, and Higginbotham sees this. Ultimately, they would both become martyrs of their faith (though this show is not likely . She held a noble title in her own right, and controlled great wealth, after she was restored to favor during the reign of Henry VIII but she became embroiled in the religious controversy over his split with Rome and was executed on Henrys orders. [13], In 1537, Reginald (still not ordained) was made a Cardinal. Her early years are obscure. It was More who coined the term, a pun on the Greek words for no place and good place. Seldom distracted from voicing their headline concerns, her people give each other a lot of information, in unmodulated voices, each time they speak. Known for:Her family connections to wealth and power, which at some times of her life meant she wielded wealth and power, and at other times meant she was subject to great risks during great controversies. Margaret's loyalty was to Katherine of Aragon and to her daughter Princess Mary to whom she was governess and godmother. He was sentenced to a traitors death to be drawn, hanged, and quartered but the king changed it to beheading. Please include name, address, and a telephone number. Her husbands career flourished. On this date in 1541, 68-year-old Margaret Pole, countess of Salisbury, was beheaded within the confines of the Tower of London, as befitted her rank. He dictated letter after letter. (Margarets paternal aunt, Margaret of Burgundy, supported Perkin Warbecks conspiracy, hoping to restore the Yorkists to power.) 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. The king raged. And when the English clergy were forced to acknowledge Henry as the supreme head of their church, More attempted to resign his office. [10], When Mary was declared a bastard in 1533, Margaret refused to give Mary's gold plate and jewels back to Henry. He read anything and everything he could find on the subject. Through her website she keeps lively links with readers and writers. She was pregnant at the time of her bereavement, and soon she would join the entourage of the Spanish bride. Eleanor was related through marriage to Lady Margaret Beaufort's extended family.) She was head of her family, a magnate with vast resources in men and money; any disaffection on her part was dangerous. In fact she was 67. Either her sons had not made her aware of their dealings, Fitzwilliam concluded, or she was an adept in brazen deceit. Mores piety was the defining aspect of his character; even as the circumstances of his life changed, it remained constant and unyielding. In 1540, Cromwell fell from favour and was attainted and executed. Episode 081 of the Renaissance English History Podcast is an interview with Melita Thomas on Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury. It was also due to Henrys deep and unfeigned friendship with More. Wolsey was destined to die for his failure to secure the annulment. He was a brilliant scholar of the Renaissance who died rather than betray the Catholic church. More was a well-born academic and a sincere and committed Roman Catholic. John More was a successful lawyer who was later knighted and made a judge of the Kings Bench; he was prosperous enough to send his son to Londons best school, St Anthonys at Threadneedle Street. His months of peace ended in 1533, when he refused to attend the coronation of Anne Boleyn. Basically, they disliked and mistrusted one another. 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. When Arthur married Catherine of Aragon, Margaret became one of her ladies-in-waiting, but her entourage was dissolved when Arthur died in 1502 aged fifteen. By 1520, as an indication of the trust placed in her, she had been appointed lady governor to the Princess Mary, born in 1516 and the only child of the royal marriage to survive for more than a few weeks. He blundered badly, hacking at Margaret's neck and shoulders until she was dead. Together, they had five children, but she was widowed in 1505. A Bill of Attainder disinherited Margaret and her younger brother, Edward, and removed them from the line of succession. But Reginald, it seemed, always got a tip-off. Margarets uncle Richard of Gloucester became king in 1483 as Richard III, and reinforced young Margaret and Edwards exclusion from the line of succession. 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. The next year, when her sons were mixed up with Buckingham, she was removed from that appointment, but later restored to it by 1525. May 28, 2015. 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. She was married to James IV of Scotland from 1503-1513, which united the royal houses of England and Scotland. Those two could only get along for short while before things got heated. A third account in Burke's Peerage, possibly apocryphal, described the appalling circumstances of the execution. . 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. It was the beginning of a fertile new line. [9] Her youngest son, Geoffrey Pole, married well to Constance, daughter of Edmund Pakenham, and inherited the estate of Lordington in Sussex. . He was made knight of the Garter, and appointed chamberlain to the young Prince of Wales. Annes personal religious feeling was unimportant. Here is where it gets complicated. (We should note, however, that More brilliant and perceptive was never especially comfortable in his kings good graces. The Duke of Clarence plotted against Edward IV and in February 1478 was attainted and executed for treason. It was sumptuously furnished and built of brick a modern material but moated, crenellated, archaic in form. "Margaret Pole, Tudor Matriarch and Martyr." This is Aalto. The eldest daughter of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, Margaret was the sister of Henry VIII. For Mores part, he undoubtedly appreciated his second wifes superb housekeeping skills for they allowed him the freedom to pursue his increasingly successful career. She is a former faculty member of the Humanist Institute. [23] Her remains were later uncovered when the chapel was renovated in 1876.[24][25]. Cromwell was an astute politician whose beliefs changed at the whim of his royal master. Later in life, he bitterly resented her abandonment of him. Reginald also urged the princes of Europe to depose Henry immediately. The story of Mores last days is terribly affecting. Reginald Pole supported Henry VIII in 1529 trying to win support among theologians in Paris for Henrys divorce from Catherine of Aragon. But in the meantime, More had eighteen months of seclusion and study at his home in Chelsea. He answered their queries as best he could, assuring them of his loyalty to king and state and stressing the matter of his personal conscience. Born 14 August 1473, Margaret was one of the few Plantagenets who had survived the Wars of the Roses She was the mother of . Here is an excerpt from Chapter 7, "Unheard-Of Cruelty", describing the trial and execution of Sir Thomas More. Reginald was the most interesting and talented of Margarets children, and the one to whom she was not close. But Reginald stayed in Italy through the reign of Anne Boleyn supposedly preparing a learned statement on the kings case. . Both Sir Thomas More and Margaret Pole were devout Catholics, dedicated to their faith and their country. For example, as Lord Chancellor, More proclaimed the opinion of the English universities as favorable to the kings annulment. 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. Unfortunately, Cardinal Wolsey was unable to secure an annulment for the king. A Professional theme for architects, construction and interior designers 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. Birth date: February 7, 1478. Towards the block I shall not go! Joan, wife of John Langton. "Margaret Pole, Tudor Matriarch and Martyr." Richard III sent the children to Sheriff Hutton Castle in Yorkshire. Best Known For: Thomas More is known for his 1516 book . It did not matter. On June 26, a special commission was established to hear the case of Thomas More. She was attended by servants and received an extensive grant of clothing in March 1541. He worked eight years as undersheriff and proved himself an impartial judge and able administrator. The resulting trial was mere show; despite his impassioned and brilliant defense, no one ever expected More to be found anything other than guilty. He had several other livings, although he had not been ordained a priest. 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. Her second son, Arthur Pole, had a generally successful career as a courtier, becoming one of the six Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber. They were charged with treason. In the end, he decided, in the words of his friend Erasmus, to be a chaste husband rather than an impure priest.. Buckingham was alleged to have said that the lack of sons to carry on the Tudor line was Gods punishment for the imprisonment and death of the young Earl of Warwick. But literacy was their usual weapon, not spells, and many of them picked up enough legal knowledge to fight their corner in civil disputes. This site requires the use of Javascript to provide the best possible experience. Margaret's relationship with Henry VIII, must have been good. 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. 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. Meanwhile, time was passing and a king used to instant obedience was determined to wait no longer. Lewis, Jone Johnson. Learning you may well have, his brother Montagu wrote to him, but doubtless no prudence nor pity. Reginald had compared himself to a surgeon ready to cut away diseased flesh from the body of England: not the most tactful metaphor, when your anointed king is dragging about with an ulcerated leg. Margaret, warned of the threat he represented to her own interests and life, said: I trow he is not so unhappy that he will hurt his mother, and yet I care neither for him, nor for any other, for I am true to my Prince., At this point she was questioned rigorously by Henrys councillor William Fitzwilliam. More's trial took place on 1 July. More importantly, he developed a personal relationship with Henry VIII, and because known as the kings intellectual courtier. (2020, August 26). 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.. [6] She remained there until she returned to favour when Henry VIII came to the throne in 1509. Pope Leo XIII beatified her as a martyr for the Roman Catholic Church on 29 December 1886. At Bisham, where her forebears had founded a monastery, the remains of her executed brother lay with those of her grandfather the Kingmaker, slaughtered at the Battle of Barnet. Certainly Henry wanted Mores support. It was Mores execution far more than those of Anne Boleyn or Thomas Cromwell or Margaret Pole which established the kings reputation for capricious cruelty. Tragedy throws her into poverty and rebellion against the new royal family, luck restores her to her place at court where she becomes the chief lady-in-waiting to Queen Katherine and watches the dominance of the Spanish queen over her husband, and her fall. Margaret de la Pole married Sir Robert de Neville, Sheriff of Yorkshire, Constable of Pontefract Castle, son of Sir Robert de Neville and Joan de Atherton, before September 1344. He wore many hats: chief diplomat, speechwriter, advisor. Her fiction is stiff and chary, as if she is too constrained by her knowledge of the pitfalls to turn her characters loose in their own lives. Reginald replied to books Henry sent him with his own pamphlet, pro ecclesiasticae unitatis defensione, or de unitate, which denied Henry's position on the marriage of a brother's wife and denied royal supremacy. It was a small mercy. 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. Whatever her private feelings at this point, in public she was pragmatic and circumspect. Margaret was not executed with her eldest son, but was held in the Tower for the last years of her life the king paying her bills, outfitting her as became a great lady in furred petticoats and a satin nightgown. It took many blows to finally kill her and this botched execution was itself remembered and, for some, considered a sign of martyrdom. If he had trusted her once, he no longer did so. This was not due to any dislike of the king. The two children were of use to him; their maternal family, the Nevilles, commanded allegiance in the north. For Maid star Margaret Qualley, her job was all about building a relationship with child actor Rylea Nevaeh Whittet and making her feel safe on the set of the Netflix series that delves into . [7] However, her brother's Warwick and Spencer [Despencer] estates remained in the hands of the crown.[8]. After his marriage to Anne Boleyn and the birth of their daughter, Elizabeth, Mary was sent to join the household of the infant princess. Birth Country: United Kingdom. He then disappeared into his private closet, and after an hour, came out as cheerful as before. More suffered a sharp chest pain, possibly angina, and begged the king to release him from his duties. 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