Retrieved from https://www.thoughtco.com/margaret-pole-tudor-matriarch-and-martyr-3530618. Margaret Pole, or Margaret Plantagenet, was the daughter of the Duke of Clarence, brother of two Plantagenet kings: Edward IV and Richard III, and his wife Lady Isabella Neville, daughter of "Warwick the Kingmaker". In 1485, he was defeated and killed at the Battle of Bosworth by Henry Tudor, who succeeded him as Henry VII. 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. Edward was then brought out and displayed briefly to the public. She began to write for the. It was perfectly clear to any objective observer that the marriage was unlawful before God! The skeleton was not complete, but part of the skull had survived, and certain other bones. She was born on the 14th August 1473 and married Sir Richard Pole in 1491, having five children before she was widowed in 1505. ODNB, which argues that the restoration was a tacit admission of her brother's innocence; however, lands and titles had been restored to the heirs of guilty peers during the previous century. 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. His brother came to the throne in 1509 as Henry VIII, married the widowed Catherine, and in a first flush of goodwill began to repair the damage to Margarets fortunes. It was then discovered that More had written to John Fisher, the bishop of Rochester, who was also imprisoned in the Tower for not taking the oath. The second season of The Spanish Princess premieres on Starz on Sunday, October 11. 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. When her husband died in 1505, Margaret became a widow with five children. Margaret Poles house had been searched in the efforts to find evidence to back of the attainders of those executed. Her mother, the great heiress Isabel Neville, died in 1476 after giving birth to her fourth child; this last baby, like Isabels first child, did not live. And the king was not pleased with the young lawyer; he promptly imprisoned Mores father in the Tower until he paid a substantial fine. 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. That was what really cost her head in the end, but we wanted to . My faithfulness stands fast and so, Christ in Thy Mercy, save Thou me! He waited five days before being summoned to the scaffold on Tower Hill. EXECUTED: 27 MAY 1541. Thomas More is the "Man For All Seasons" in the title of the play. A third account in Burke's Peerage, possibly apocryphal, described the appalling circumstances of the execution. The sons of Edward IV, 11 and 13 years old, had been held in the Tower by their uncle Richard III, and last been seen by Londoners in the summer of 1483. If my head should win him a castle in France, he told his son-in-law in 1525, it should not fail to go.). Posted By Claire on May 27, 2012. Meanwhile, time was passing and a king used to instant obedience was determined to wait no longer. Margaret was 14, and probably remained at court rather than living with her husband. The chronology defeated observers, as if her life stretched back into a fabulous era when dragons roamed. Joan, wife of John Langton. Henry VII paid for Richard's funeral. This discovery resulted in removal of Mores books and writing materials. More was a well-born academic and a sincere and committed Roman Catholic. She was now one of the richest people in England. And as his own reputation grew in London, he attracted the notice of the all-powerful Cardinal Wolsey. By Caroline Hallemann Published: Nov 24, 2020 The date of the marriage is uncertain; 1487 is likely. The sitter might as well be carved, for all she suggests flesh or circulating blood. The symbolism and importance of this decision cannot be underestimated. [13], In 1537, Reginald (still not ordained) was made a Cardinal. But for the rest of his reign Henry VII would be plagued by pretenders, persistently rising from the dead. When Henry gave the nod for the execution to take place, no one was give. at, Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March (conflation of, This page was last edited on 21 February 2023, at 21:21. As a boy, More spent some time in the household of John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury. 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 . And when the English clergy were forced to acknowledge Henry as the supreme head of their church, More attempted to resign his office. 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. As a young king, he was named Defender of the Faith by the pope for defending the church against Protestant heresy; his Lord Chancellor was Cardinal Thomas Wolsey. She was sentenced to death, to be executed at the king's will. 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. Art and science The German artist Hans Holbein the Younger paints King Henry VIII. 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. And so, when More returned from a diplomatic mission to France in summer 1527, the king laid the open Bible before his favorite councilor. Investigating An Anemometer. Pope Paul III put him in charge of organising assistance for the Pilgrimage of Grace (and related movements). It was sumptuously furnished and built of brick a modern material but moated, crenellated, archaic in form. Yet if you were to ask Mores contemporaries to describe him, their words would be as conflicted and contradictory as the man himself. She had a dispute over land with Henry VIII in 1518; he awarded the contested lands to the Dukedom of Somerset, which had been held by his Beaufort great-grandfather, and were now in the possession of the Crown. But by then Lord Montagu was dead, executed along with the Marquis of Exeter and other opponents of the regime. Their destruction came with a wave of arrests in the autumn of 1538. Margaret was now fully under the king's will, with no title or lands to her name, she was to be styled simply as Margaret Pole. She answered that no crime had been imputed to her. He badgered Katharine ceaselessly. It was, Henry told him, proof that his marriage to Katharine was incestuous due to her previous marriage to his brother. Arthur Pole suffered a setback when his patron Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, was convicted of treason in 1521, but he was soon restored to favour. Ursula Pole, married Henry Stafford, whose title and lands were lost when his father was executed for treason and attainted, restored to a Stafford title under Edward VI. He worked eight years as undersheriff and proved himself an impartial judge and able administrator. ThoughtCo, Aug. 26, 2020, thoughtco.com/margaret-pole-tudor-matriarch-and-martyr-3530618. London, WC1A 2HN That was clear to Cromwell almost from the first, and perhaps to More, too. She was, Pierce says, intelligent, unquestionably virtuous, traditionally pious, and possessed an easy familiarity with the convoluted etiquette of a royal court. Soon, young Edward, a potential York claimant to the throne, was moved to the Tower of London. For a time, she and her younger brother were in the care of their maternal aunt, Anne Neville, who was married to their paternal uncle, Richard of Gloucester. 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 married to James IV of Scotland from 1503-1513, which united the royal houses of England and Scotland. Margaret and Richard Pole had five children, born between about 1492 and 1504: four sons and the youngest a daughter. Mores letters indicate that he was not particularly keen to enter royal service. Nor make one step, as you shall see; May 28, 2015. [6] . In 1876, during restoration work on the chapel of St Peter ad Vincula, the bones of a tall, elderly woman came to light. But they have never been proven, and in fact they seem pretty far fetched. But literacy was their usual weapon, not spells, and many of them picked up enough legal knowledge to fight their corner in civil disputes. Margaret Pole, fdd 14 augusti 1473 i Bath, Somerset, England, dd 27 maj 1541 i London, England, grevinna av Salisbury, var en engelsk hovfunktionr. 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. His lands and titles were thereby forfeited. Birth Year: 1478. 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. 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. Here is an excerpt from Chapter 7, "Unheard-Of Cruelty", describing the trial and execution of Sir Thomas More. It was children who caused him a problem. There, she was surrounded by connections of the Boleyn queen. Mores only communication with Barton had been to warn her against meddling in affairs of state. His natural piety was at odds with other courtiers, all of whom jockeyed ceaselessly for the kings favor. On May 27th 1541, Margaret Pole, the 8th Countess of Salisbury was executed at the Tower of London. Margaret's own favour at Court varied. He would arrive unbidden, to either eat with the family or walk in the garden with More, his arm slung casually about Mores shoulders. 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. Margaret may have been deprived of her dynastic importance, but her marriage was honourable and stable, and she retained her status, if not her familys great titles and wealth. His naivety meant that, when threats to the regime mounted, he was easily entrapped. Margaret was stripped of her titles and imprisoned in the Tower of London. There is an apocryphal story that Morton predicted his bright and lively page would grow into a marvelous man. But Margaret Pole, one of the great magnates of Tudor England, is not overlooked. His crusade against his native land was never launched, but many years later he would return, Archbishop of Canterbury to Mary Tudor, and join in heresy-hunting and the burning of reformers. One does not have to share his religious convictions to appreciate his inner strength and noble character. More essentially argued that communal life is the only way to end the ill effects of self-interest on politics. Two days later, a four-count indictment charging More with treason was presented to the commission. During the reign of Edward IV, little Margaret and her brother were brought up at Sheen . The accounts differ slightly; Marillac's report, dispatched two days afterwards, recorded that the execution took place in a corner of the Tower with so few people present that, in the evening, news of her execution was doubted. Henry was wise enough to state his case and let it go, for a little while at least. Even as he secretly wore a hair shirt, he openly and consistently fasted, prayed, and maintained a relatively modest household. Henry VIII married Catherine of Aragon in 1509 and Margaret was again appointed as one of her ladies-in-waiting. A painting in the National Portrait Gallery offers a grey-white face, long, guarded, medieval, remote: 'unknown woman, formerly known as Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury'. You can find out more about our use, change your default settings, and withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future by visiting Cookies Settings, which can also be found in the footer of the site. But polite prevarications only worked for so long and soon More was a genuine courtier, with all its attendant duties and benefits. When you visit the site, Dotdash Meredith and its partners may store or retrieve information on your browser, mostly in the form of cookies. 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. Margaret, wife of Sir William Harington. In fact she was 67. And his patron Morton was infamous as the architect of that kings very successful and subsequently very unpopular tax policy. 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. Some stories even claim this was at his own request, having been permitted to choose the manner of his execution. . More importantly, he developed a personal relationship with Henry VIII, and because known as the kings intellectual courtier. To help with her financial situation, she gave one of her sons, Reginald, to the church. The alleged plot between the earl and Warbeck was flimsy and perhaps government-sponsored, but both men were tried and executed. 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. And while this reasoning worked to replenish the royal treasury for Henry VII, it also provided the second Tudor king with a chance to curry popular favor when he in one of his first acts as Henry VIII imprisoned and later executed Edmund Dudley and Richard Empson, who were Mortons (and his fathers) tax collectors. Her mother was one of the greatest heiresses of her time while her father was the younger brother of King Edward IV of England. And More determined that their daughters would receive the same education as their son. Read anywhere with the London Review of Books app, available now from the App Store for Apple devices, Google Play for Android devices and Amazon for your Kindle Fire. He grew up cultivated and cosmopolitan, sensitive, lively-minded. When historical novelists are looking for ways to empower their heroines they opt for making them hotshot herbalists or minxy witches. On her wrist, emblematic, is a small barrel. Where is Hans Holbein when you need him? Now he decided to seriously test his religious convictions. Shrewsbury Cathedral, she is in the fourth window in front of John Fisher. The queen had suffered a series of miscarriages throughout their marriage; their only surviving child was the Princess Mary. Margarets uncle Richard of Gloucester became king in 1483 as Richard III, and reinforced young Margaret and Edwards exclusion from the line of succession. The two children were of use to him; their maternal family, the Nevilles, commanded allegiance in the north. Both Sir Thomas More and Margaret Pole were devout Catholics, dedicated to their faith and their country. Reginald was the most interesting and talented of Margarets children, and the one to whom she was not close. European rulers keen to destabilise England had promoted the claims of this plausible, glamorous young man, but by the summer of 1498 he was in the Tower, about to embark on the last act of his mysterious life. 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.. 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. Margaret was perhaps guilty only by association, but at this distance it is impossible to tell. Perhaps his earlier justification for the annulment had been a matter of self-interest, a selective interpretation of opaque text. Did she, as the regime alleged, burn the evidence that incriminated her? No one would stage a rebellion in her favour while there were male Yorkists to mount a challenge. She was attended by servants and received an extensive grant of clothing in March 1541. Henry VII also decided, about that time, to marry the 15-year-old Margaret to his half-cousin, Sir Richard Pole. The charge was treason. Margaret Pole. As Englands premier intellectual, Mores opinion mattered. Nothing worked. This site requires the use of Javascript to provide the best possible experience. True or not, the marriage proved to be happy and fruitful, though of brief duration. 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. Utopia is a complex and witty work which describes a city-state ruled entirely by reason. He is an English lawyer, eventually promoted to Chancellor and assistant to the King after Wolsey 's death. Thomas More was born on 7 February 1478 in London, the son of a successful lawyer. There wasn't any "relationship" as such. Elizabeth Throckmorton. 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 Neville. Lewis, Jone Johnson. In 1886, 10 years after . 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. Margaret Pole ended up becoming a Catholic martyr. At this point, Reginald delivered him a nasty surprise, in the shape of a letter denouncing him as a schismatic, heretic and disgrace to Christendom: a Nero, a wild beast. Perhaps the contrast with the quiet, gentle Jane was too striking. It is unlikely she had seen him for many years, but in any case, mourning for a traitor was inadvisable. Basically, they disliked and mistrusted one another. Seldom distracted from voicing their headline concerns, her people give each other a lot of information, in unmodulated voices, each time they speak. Because the main executioner[17] had been sent north to deal with rebels, the execution was performed by "a wretched and blundering youth who literally hacked her head and shoulders to pieces in the most pitiful manner". After her husband's death, Margaret acted as regent for her son James V, from 1513-1515. Credit: PjrWindows / Alamy Stock Photo. Montagu, Exeter, and Margaret were arrested in November 1538. Was More surprised by this speech? 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. To that end, he spent the next three years in study and prayer, wearing a hair shirt next to his skin (a practice he never abandoned), and struggling to reconcile his genuine religious fervor with the demands of the outside world. It states that Margaret refused to lay her head on the block, declaiming, "So should traitors do, and I am none". This conviction meant they lost their titles and their landsmostly in the South of England--conveniently located to assist any invasion. It was unlawful before man and God and thus void. 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. It was his great popularity that saved him. 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. In 1512, an Act of Parliament restored to Margaret the Earldom of Salisbury and some of her brother's land which had belonged to it, for which she paid 5000 marks (2666.13s.4d), equivalent to 2,164,602 in 2021. Gaily agreeing that the chief female virtues are meekness and self-effacement, they managed estates, signed off accounts, bought wardships and brokered marriage settlements, all the while keeping up a steady output of needlework. Henry still hoped for Mores support. 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. Because she was a girl Margaret did not represent the same threat. A Yorkist pretender had been crowned in Dublin, a child who claimed to be the Plantagenet heir, Edward, Earl of Warwick, Margarets 12-year-old brother. 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. Henry wrote to Margaret, who in turn wrote to her son, reproving him for his "folly". This More was fully prepared to do. But he himself did not sign the letter in which most of Englands nobles and prelates petitioned the pope to declare the marriage unlawful. Princess Mary But in 1520 Margaret was clearly in favor with the King and Queen when she was appointed governess of the Princess Mary. 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. Henry VIII helped provide good marriages or religious offices for Margarets sons, and a good marriage for her daughter as well. She was head of her family, a magnate with vast resources in men and money; any disaffection on her part was dangerous. In 1886, Margaret would be beatified by Pope Leo XIII as a martyr to Henrys regime. He had several other livings, although he had not been ordained a priest. He was sentenced to a traitors death to be drawn, hanged, and quartered but the king changed it to beheading. The Duke of Clarence plotted against Edward IV and in February 1478 was attainted and executed for treason. He later studied at . Unfortunately for More, Henry appointed him Lord Chancellor of England. We can't imagine how Margaret was feeling, she was 65 years of age when brought to the tower in 1539, an advanced age by the standards of the day. He died on 8 August 1420. They married less than a month after Jane Colts death and More had to seek special dispensation from the church. Biography. He had a true gift for friendship and inspired deep loyalty amongst his family and friends. But not your principles. Rather, he felt that he could be more effective in the city itself, not closeted away amongst the nobles and councilors of Henrys court. He encouraged them to do so. She was a devout and learned young woman, and though we primarily know her as the older wife who could not bear Henry his desired son and heir, she was once young and pretty and well-liked. Warwick London, WC1A 2HNletters@lrb.co.uk 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. Cardinal Wolsey and the king needed no further reason to bring More into the kings service. Stoke was a decisive victory. Only when Fitzwilliam called Reginald a whoreson did she object, saying with a wonderful sorrowful countenance that he was no whoreson, for she was both a good woman and true. When Reginald, lying abroad, heard of her death, he announced to his secretary that he was now the son of a martyr. 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. 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 . She served later as a governess to Mary. More was not a man to be broken by prison, but he suffered physically. As a newly elected representative for London in Parliament and an undersheriff in the city, he was deeply involved in public life. It was the Act of Succession, passed the following month, that sealed his fate. Portrait of an unknown woman, often identified as the Countess of Salisbury, DWYER, J. G. "Pole, Margaret Plantagenet, Bl.". Henry, the eldest son, though knighted and given the family title Lord Montagu, did not share the general admiration for the king. 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. In total, Margaret and Richard Pole had five children together: Henry, Arthur, Ursula, Reginald and Geoffrey. Margarets aunt, Anne Neville, thus became queen. 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. Or was there, as she claimed, nothing worth burning? He then disappeared into his private closet, and after an hour, came out as cheerful as before. In the end, he decided, in the words of his friend Erasmus, to be a chaste husband rather than an impure priest.. Margaret's destiny, as an heiress to the Plantagenets, is not for a life in the shadows. ODNB, "Reginald Pole"; "Geoffrey Pole". Ultimately, they would both become martyrs of their faith (though this show is not likely . He was first appointed a Privy Councilor and accompanied Wolsey to an important diplomatic mission to Europe. Link will appear as Hanson, Marilee. You see, we speak of being anchored to our principles. This phrase has been interpreted as meaning Edward was of low intelligence; it only means that he was unworldly, and Higginbotham sees this. It was the king who had paid for Reginalds education at Oxford and later in Italy, where his noble connections gave him the entre into the smartest humanist circles. Read More. Margaret Pole had connections to all manner of visitor attractions, including Farleigh Hungerford Castle, Somerset, where she was born,and the Tower of London. But the kings horoscope was looking nasty and, according to a Spanish commentator, he aged twenty years in two weeks. 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. Susan Higginbotham. Margaret is the main character of Samantha Wilcoxson's 2016 novel, Dwyer, J.G. After she had redeemed her dead brothers lands from the crown, she owned property in Calais, and estates in Wales and 17 English counties. He blindfolded himself and exhorted the assembled crowd to witness his end in the faith and for the faith of the Catholic Church, the kings good servant but Gods first. 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