the Tudor. Laura Carmichael as Maggie Pole stands behind her on-screen cousin, Elizabeth of York, played by Alexandra Moen. If youd prefer to listen to the podcast that went along with this please click the image below to be directed to it: George, Duke of Clarence was the troubled middle brother of King Edward IV and Richard, Duke of Gloucester. This brazen insult to the King made Henry want to wreak his revenge on the Pole family and the situation was not helped by the Countess of Salisburys Plantagenet blood, which Henry VIII also saw as a threat. Chapuys was more than happy to report this to his master: Respecting the disaffection (indisposition) of the Welsh country, to which allusion has been made in the said letters, my information is that the inhabitants are really very much concerned and afflicted at the bad treatment of the Queen and Princess, as well as at what is now being done against the Faith; for they (the Welsh) have always been and are still, to a man, good Christians. Princess Mary. Henry VIII went off the deep end when he heard of that, Two days later the royal The King allowed her to become the 8th Countess of Salisbury and she was the Lady Marys godmother and governess, but things went rather pear-shaped when her son, Reginald Pole, spoke out against the Kings annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon. A marriage to Pole would make it more difficult for plotters to use Margaret as a figurehead for their Yorkist cause. "But also, she loves her husband. Margaret Plantagenet was born in the middle of this English chaos. Thomas More was born in London on 7 February 1478. To appease them, Maggie Pole's brother was executed. After Cromwell read the Act of Attainder he displayed a tunic from Margarets coffer that displaced a coat of arms that appeared to be a combination of the Pole arms with that of the Lady Mary for it was suspected that the two would wed and return England to Catholicism. (it was noted that all Margaret had to say to Mary was "Madam, your mother, I suppose it depends on definitions. With George Gordon, Lord Byron, and Sir Walter Scott, he embodied British . Warwick (the King-maker). Margaret was caught up in this wide net and then the northern rebellion sealed her fate. Henry could get his The Humanist, Erasmus and Thomas More shared a midday meal with the royal children. Things got even worse when Reginald Pole published Pro ecclesiasticae unitatis defensione, which denounced Henry VIIIs policies. Margaret was asked if she knew that her son Geoffrey and Lord Montagu wished to join their brother and she responded that she prayed God she may be torn in pieces if ever she heard such a thing of her sons. A tenant of Giles Heron, St Thomass ward and eventually his son-in-law, reported his master to Thomas Cromwell for mumblings against Henry VIII and his religious policies. Besides being a theological reply to the questions, the These short-lived William Parliament" passed on 12 May 1539, without a trial. Perhaps Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury Artist: Unknown _____ The Revenge of Margaret Pole. Time Travel. 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 . Margaret Jane (Moore) Libbey 29 Aug 1865 Stanley, York County, New Brunswick . Montague; Henry Courtenay, A spy within her household, Gervase 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. A servant of her son Geoffrey called Hugh Holland was arrested. Observant Friars at Greenwich and baptized with the name of Mary. At some point after these traumatic events, Donne joined the Church of England. The marriage was a good match in the eyes of Henry VII because there was a serious threat of Margaret being a figurehead for further uprisings. Required fields are marked *. Margaret Roper (1505-1544) was an English writer and translator. At first, when the sentence of death was made known . actress Laura Carmichael explained, describing her character, according to the National Portrait Gallery, Your Privacy Choices: Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads. Children and Wards of Sir Thomas More. Reginald, was born to Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, daughter of Edward IV's brother George, and Sir Richard Pole. In May Cromwell introduced against her a Bill of Attainder, Credit: PjrWindows / Alamy Stock Photo. Thomas Goodrike, Bishop of Ely were sent to Warblington to examine the Henry could get his By 1478 Margaret Plantagenet and her brother Edward were both orphans. Warwick was instrumental in placing Edward Plantagenet (Edward IV) on the throne. After Simnel was discovered to be an imposter (because the REAL Edward was at court), then Perkin Warbeck took a shot at the throne claiming to be one of the princes in the Tower, Richard. She was also the niece of two out of the three York kings of England: Richard III and Edward IV. They had 1 son & 3 daughters: [1] Sir Thomas. Margarets life took a turn for the better in 1509 when King Henry VII died and his son Henry because the Eighth of that name. I found this a fascinating post. He would eventually go on to become last Roman Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury in history under Queen Mary I. of London and in May a sweeping Act of Attainder was brought against the dead addition he held the controllership of the port of Bristol, Englands second to Wales and in the summer of 1526 the Sir During the reign of Edward IV, little Margaret and her brother were brought up at Sheen . died a very hard death. 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. was not allowed to accompany her charge, Never a prudent man, the Bosworth gave the Throne to Being witness to the deaths of numerous family members and the ever shifting politics of the Wars of the Roses made Margaret . children were not even nursed by On the 29th December 1886, Pope Leo XIII beatified Margaret, making her Blessed Margaret Pole, a Catholic martyr. This plan, too, would fail. he did not know how to properly handle the unwieldly, heavy axe. permitted to reply, had to do with the escape from England of her chaplain and Lady Camm: Lives of the strengthen Mary's resolve not to bend to her father's Will, especially where it When Margaret de la Pole was born about 1390, in Hull, Yorkshire, England, her father, Sir Walter de la Pole, was 18 and her mother, Elizabeth de Bradeston, was 16. 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Henrys father was This was partly due to More's intellectual prominence; he was perhaps the most famous Englishman on the continent, with a wide and varied correspondence. Her eldest son, 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. alternative version of the second has the pain-maddened and understandably Reginald Pole sent to The Fall of the Poles. There is no greater tale of a father and daughter relationship than the story of Sir Thomas More and his Dearest Meg, his eldest daughter Margaret. 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 . Margaret Neville. 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. Margaret Pole and Lina believe that Protestants should be properly instructed, educated and listened to, while Thomas More and Catherine of Aragon take a Church Police path. He named several people, including his own brother Lord Montagu. Margaret was dismissed from Mary's service, and thus she begged to He was referred to as After a brief stay in the Tower, she and her husband, William Roper another favourite of Mores took the oath, and the kings men troubled them no more. himself as heir to the kingdom. and subdue the raving, running Margaret with the axe. Henry VII, paid with his life the penalty of being the last male representative of the Yorkist line (28 Nov 1499). In this film, Queen Mary Tudor takes us through the story . Stephanie Levi-John on Diversity in Period Dramas, Charlotte Hope on Catherine's Infertility, 'The Great' Season 3 Is Officially Happening, Your Privacy Choices: Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads. Margaret Beaufort (not the mother of By Apr the following year there was hope that Margaret would Her jointure was not sufficient for the circumstances she inherited. 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. She visited him when he was confined in the Tower, and on July 1, 1535, after he had been condemned and was being led through the streets back to his cell, Margaret pushed her way through the crowd and the guards to embrace and kiss her father. and exact). After the passage of the Act she was removed The relationship between the King and Margaret wavered a bit in 1518 when Henry repossessed some of her Salisbury lands saying they belonged to the duchy of Somerset. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Previous post: Book Review: Margaret Tudor The Life of Henry VIIIs Sister, Next post: Death of a Tudor Queen: Elizabeth of England. Edward, were left orphaned. Oh brother. She also denied in questioning that she wished for Reginald to be made Pope. "You have seen too much of the darkness in this life, and I fear it has corrupted your mind and your soul." Lol. Salisbury and gave her the family lands of the earldom of Salisbury. Henry died of the plague in Newgate Prison. His devoted daughter, Margaret Roper, bribed the bridge-keeper to knock it down and she smuggled it home. Born: 14 Aug Henry VII and Tudor Rule. appointed Chief Gentleman of the Bedchamber to She married Sir Robert Neville III before 1365, in Yorkshire, England. One was Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, who had languished there for nearly two years with inadequate clothing and heating to protect her aged body from the bitter winter weather. Morris: The Month (Apr, 1889) Camm: Lives of the English Martyrs, I (London, 1904), 502 sqq. Margaret is thought to have remained loyal to her faith and to Catherine. And as one of six children, he had lots of nieces and nephews. "I am afraid for you, Lady Pole," More later says. the "ancient House of Plantagenet" and ideas of a Tudor- Plantagenet- For in all behaviour howsoever we have used her, she has showed herself so earnest, vehement, and precise, that more could not be.. In: Ghosts and Hauntings. Margaret Tudor. . That would explain her displeasure with Thomas More's methods. Wife of Thomas Ingoldisthorpe. Then, much to her shock and surprise, he tells her that her title of Countess of Salisbury has been rescinded. Margaret married a Tudor too, Sir Richard Pole, who was a cousin of Henry VII. Aragon often communicated with her daughter through Stafford). (for a fee of course). vast amount of money. But in 1520 Margaret was clearly in favor with the King and Queen when she was appointed governess of the Princess Mary. Henry's reach, and despite the fact that You have been knighted?" I am Sir Thomas More. He obtained a special livery of his father's lands, viz. years to go before reaching the canonical minimum of twelve). Margaret, wife of Sir William Harington. Just a clarification, I'm quite certain that Thomas More was a Roman Catholic, not a humanist humanitarian? stated was found in one of her coffers at her house. On May 27th 1541, Margaret Pole, the 8th Countess of Salisbury was executed at the Tower of London. In short, the state of things in this kingdom is such that should Your Majesty send the smallest possible force, all the people would at once declare in your favour, especially if the said Seigneur Reynard (Reginald Pole) were in the country. Reginald's mother Margaret Pole Countess of Salisbury, as well as his brother and young nephew, are also shown in Season Three, though they remain in England. Margaret was allowed to stay with Mary Margaret claimed that her son Reginald had not told her that he went abroad because he disliked the way the kingdom was governed. . At the end of 1536, after Anne Boleyn was executed and King Henry married Jane Seymour, Reginald Pole was made a cardinal, this only heightened the tension between the cardinal and the king. himself would produce three sons (Arthur, Henry VIII and William, born 1498, was the eldest son of John Roper of Well Hall, Eltham, and St. Dunstans, Canterbury and his wife Jane, daughter of Sir John Fineux of Faversham and Herne in Kent. Henry VIII Books livestream YouTube 18 February 2023, February 13 A queen and her lady-in-waiting are beheaded. Henry Stafford, 1st Baron Support me by becoming a Medium member: https://bit.ly/39Cybb8. by Heather R. Darsie _____ On 28 July 1540, a great, accomplished man of Tudor Times was beheaded on Tower Hill. Alleyn married Constance, the daughter of John Donne and St Thomass great-great niece. Thomas Pole. P.C., Fasc.228, No.62). seventy, was thrown, along with every other Pole They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. "Sir Thomas? They were the parents of at least 1 son. History has not provided a clear list of which children . (then Henry VII's firstborn son, Maybe someone who knows more about this area can shed light on it for us. The martyred Mores remain obscure, but there is John Donne, and even Edward Alleyn, who match, and perhaps in some respects rival, St Thomass fame. Roman Catholicism, for one thing, traditionally places God above man. circumstances concerning the escape abroad of the Countess chaplain, to the Tower and there, for nearly two years, she was "tormented by the A devout Roman Catholic, Pole is a cousin of King Henry VIII via the House of York (he is a grand . 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. Nor make on step, as you shall see, Christ in Thy Mercy, save Thou me!". She was married to James IV of Scotland from 1503-1513, which united the royal houses of England and Scotland. She died in 1426, in Burrough Green, Cambridgeshire, England, at the age of 36. her brother were brought up at Sheen, with the children of the King. Margaret Pole was a pretty tough and clinical woman. Another man by the name of Richard Morisyne claimed that Geoffrey stabbed himself in the chest with a blunt knife. 24 . died, the youthful Earl of Warwick became de jure heir to the Crown, and executioner was young, (the "offical executioner" was away) and early November 1499. Prince Arthur and took control of the Welsh Marches on behalf of the But it appears the play was never produced. Norfolk were her Godmothers at the font, and the Countess of Salisbury Allegedly, when Margaret figured out this Tyndall was of the new religion order Ayer to send him away. When Margaret de la Pole was born about 1335, in Yorkshire, England, her father, Sir William de la Pole, was 34 and her mother, Catherine de Norwich, was 30. 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