Eustace Chapuys, the imperial ambassador, recorded the Countess's execution in a letter to the Queen of Hungary: Mores beginnings, however, hardly predicted his spectacular career. Margaret, Countess of Salisbury, was born at Farley Castle, near Bath, on 14th August, in or about the year 1473. at, Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March (conflation of, This page was last edited on 21 February 2023, at 21:21. 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. Her daughter Ursula married the Duke of Buckingham's son, Henry Stafford, but after the Duke's fall, the couple were given only fragments of his estates. He was made knight of the Garter, and appointed chamberlain to the young Prince of Wales. A possible portrait of Margaret Pole (c. 1535). 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. 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". Calculate relationship; Relationship with x x (Sosa/Ahnentafel #1) Relationship with Thomas Chaworth (spouse) More . It states that Margaret refused to lay her head on the block, declaiming, "So should traitors do, and I am none". First I went on the Internet to find some ways of measuring wind speed. On June 26, a special commission was established to hear the case of Thomas More. When that daughters father-in-law was executed by Henry VIII, the Pole family fell out of favor briefly, but regained favor. There was a new king, a handsome, athletic young man who had once been destined for the church. 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. In practice, pre-nuptial agreements, trusts and the legally sanctioned breach of entails created some flexibility. During her time in prison, Cromwell himself was executed. Based in North Carolina, Higginbotham is a lawyer by background and has written several historical novels, spanning different eras. The main character is Joanna Stafford, a Dominican novice. In 1504, More was elected to Parliament and one of his first acts was to oppose Henry VIIs request of a grant of three-fifteenths. She is a close student of the sources, and careful not to stuff her novels with false excitements. His home at Chelsea was as close as Tudor England would come to an 18th century French salon. 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. 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. Soon he was acting as Henrys personal secretary and adviser, delivering official speeches, greeting foreign envoys, drafting treaties and other public documents, and composing the kings responses to Wolseys dispatches. Either her sons had not made her aware of their dealings, Fitzwilliam concluded, or she was an adept in brazen deceit. Cardinal and archbishop of Canterbury.Pole was a younger son of Margaret, countess of Salisbury, daughter of George, duke of Clarence: he was therefore of the blood royal and his mother was governess and companion of Princess Mary.Intended from the beginning for the church, he spent 1521-7 on the continent in study. 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. Margarets whole family had been elevated with her on the wheel of fortune. The threat seemed even greater by 1538, when the two great powers, France and the emperor, signed a peace treaty which left them free to turn their attention to the pariah nation. In 1540, Cromwell fell from favour and was attainted and executed. And so he was imprisoned in the Tower of London on 17 April 1534. The remnants of the Plantagenets had no difficulty in breeding, while the Tudors were less lucky. The king added that his lack of a legitimate son was clear proof of Gods displeasure. Thomas More worked hard for the king. And so, when More returned from a diplomatic mission to France in summer 1527, the king laid the open Bible before his favorite councilor. 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. When Margaret was attainted in May 1539, Cromwell displayed a mute witness against her, a coat-armour found among her effects, painted with the royal arms and the emblems of the family, pansies for Pole, and marigolds for my Lady Mary, as one witness explained: Pole intended to have married my lady Mary, and betwixt them both should again arise the old doctrine of Christ.. geralmente . When Henry gave the nod for the execution to take place, no one was give. In 1535, Englands ambassador began suggesting that Reginald Pole marry Henrys daughter Mary. In 1512, Parliament, with Henrys assent, restored to her some of the lands that had been held by Henry VII for her brother while he was imprisoned, and then had been confiscated when he was executed. BORN: 1473. 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. After her husband's death, Margaret acted as regent for her son James V, from 1513-1515. Through her website she keeps lively links with readers and writers. Eleanor was related through marriage to Lady Margaret Beaufort's extended family.) This conviction meant they lost their titles and their landsmostly in the South of England--conveniently located to assist any invasion. Afterwards, he made a botched suicide attempt. 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. ThoughtCo. The second season of The Spanish Princess premieres on Starz on Sunday, October 11. No great European power was willing to commit men or money to this crusade, but their unwillingness was not apparent at the time. A Bill of Attainder disinherited Margaret and her younger brother, Edward, and removed them from the line of succession. For at least five years, Montagu, Exeter and others had been passing information to the emperor through his ambassador, urging the invasion of England, and Reginald himself had assured the readers of his 1536 letter that a host of disaffected subjects were lurking within the realm, ready to support the invaders against Henry as soon as foreign troops landed. When Henry imposed an oath which recognised him as head of the church in England, the countess and her household complied. The skeleton was not complete, but part of the skull had survived, and certain other bones. When not at Court, Margaret lived chiefly at Warblington Castle in Hampshire and Bisham Manor in Berkshire. [27] She is commemorated in the dedication of the Church of Our Lady Queen of Peace & Blessed Margaret Pole in Southbourne, Bournemouth.[28]. He had once served under Wolsey and knew More well. The grave of Anne Boleyn. 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. Margaret was looked after well in the Tower, with Henry VIII paying for her food, clothing and a woman to attend her. As the heir to the throne, Mary enjoyed a separate household, and in 1525 she was sent to Ludlow to hold court. He did not struggle with the reduction in means, and busied himself with planning a tomb for himself and his wives , as well as defending his faith in various pamphlets. Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons: A Play in Two Acts. Henry Tudor had the real Warwick in custody, and was able to produce him, so the rebellion came to nothing. Quite the opposite. According to some stories, which are not accepted by many historians, she refused to lay her head on the block, and guards had to force her to kneel. Margaret's mother was the eldest daughter of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick. (1) It was not a bloodbath, but a selective cull, carried through by process of law. The date of the marriage is uncertain; 1487 is likely. If Margaret played any part in the downfall of Henrys second queen, her role was so far behind the scenes that it has left no trace. Despite such evidence of royal favor, it is likely that More chafed at his service to the king. Both Henry and Reginald Pole were attainted in 1539; Geoffrey was pardoned. But Margaret herself was an ornament to Henry. Here's how the cast of The Spanish Princess compares to their real-life counterparts, from Catherine to Margaret Pole. The alleged plot between the earl and Warbeck was flimsy and perhaps government-sponsored, but both men were tried and executed. Margaret's mother died when she was three; her father had two servants killed when he thought they had poisoned her. Perhaps his earlier justification for the annulment had been a matter of self-interest, a selective interpretation of opaque text. But Margaret kept any dissident thoughts to herself, avoiding jeopardy until, in the summer of 1536, the actions of her son Reginald plunged her whole family into trouble. Ironically, it was his own honesty and probity which ensured his continued service to Henry. Likewise, Henry became understandably angry at the papacys refusal to repudiate Charles. It was sumptuously furnished and built of brick a modern material but moated, crenellated, archaic in form. It was not so much a letter as a small book. And his patron Morton was infamous as the architect of that kings very successful and subsequently very unpopular tax policy. Mores piety was the defining aspect of his character; even as the circumstances of his life changed, it remained constant and unyielding. In Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, 1473-1541, Hazel Pierce was unable to corroborate Richard Morisyne's assertion that as a young widow Margaret Pole made her home with the other Bridgettine nuns at Syon abbey.However, the household accounts of Lady Margaret Beaufort (held at St. John's College, Cambridge) reveal that this was indeed the case, recording payments to her from . [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. Answer (1 of 6): Anne Boleyn's death would have been instant and painless - to the extent that we can guess, anyway. Her father, Duke of Clarence and brother to Edward IV, switched sides several times during that long family battle over the crown of England. It was the Act of Succession, passed the following month, that sealed his fate. Thomas More is the "Man For All Seasons" in the title of the play. 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. 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 if it is she wears coral and ermine. 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. 28 Little Russell Street Margaret, wife of Sir William Harington. She was born on the 14th August 1473 and married Sir Richard Pole in 1491, having five children before she was widowed in 1505. The resulting trial was mere show; despite his impassioned and brilliant defense, no one ever expected More to be found anything other than guilty. In theory, after she married, a womans personal property and real estate were at her husbands disposal. Henrys adult opponents were dead or driven abroad. More would stand trial for his life. 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. * Walter Stafford (about 1539-after 1571 . 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. The axe hit her shoulder instead of her neck, and she escaped the guards and ran around screaming as the executioner chased her with the axe. 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