Richard de la Pole was a pretender to the English crown. Margaret left the position on July 24, 1521 but was reappointed in 1525 when she followed the princess to Ludlow. He was with Francis I at the Battle of Pavia on 24 February 1525, where he was killed. Grandson of Sir William de la Pole and Alice Chaucer, Sir Richard Plantagenet and Cecily de Neville. The entire Pole family would come under suspicion. At first, Margaret was held under the supervision of Fitzwilliam in his home. Her brother Edward was born in 1475 and her mother died about a year later. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! In August 1538, Margaret’s son Geoffrey was arrested when it was discovered he had been in contact with his brother Reginald on the continent and had also engaged in treasonous talk against the king. The professional executioner had been sent north to deal with the rebels. However, when Mary Tudor became queen upon the death of her brother in 1553, Reginald Pole returned to England and became an advisor to the Queen. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Sir Richard owned two manors and had an income of £50 per annum. Margaret was vocal and determined in her support of Queen Katherine and Princess Mary in the debate over the King’s effort to divorce the Queen to marry Anne Boleyn, thereby further damaging Margaret’s relations with the king. Geoffrey was found guilty of treason and unsuccessfully tried to commit suicide twice. This meant she was now in possession of all the lands her brother held at the time of his execution. Two of them, Sir James Tyrrell and Sir John Wyndham, were executed; William de la Pole was imprisoned; and Edmund de la Pole, 3rd Duke of Suffolk, was outlawed. Claude, who also became a priest and Canon of Évry. While we don’t know the exact date, there is strong evidence Margaret was married in late 1487 to Sir Richard Pole. Henry most likely did this as an unstated recognition of the injustice of her brother’s death. Despite Sir Richard Pole’s loyal service to two generations of Tudors, his wife and sons were rounded up and executed on account of their Plantagenet blood and their Catholicism– an irony for the Pole children given their Lancastrian heritage and links to Margaret Beaufort. Then in April of 1521, Edward Stafford, Duke of Buckingham was convicted of treason and executed the following month. These he led to St. Malo, but the conclusion of peace with England prevented their embarcation. Soon after this, Margaret’s son Reginald wrote a letter to King Henry challenging Henry’s bid to become the Supreme Head of the Church of England. Her father was George Duke of Clarence, brother of King Edward IV. Whether any of this was true or not, King Henry may have suspected Margaret of being involved with the rebels. [5] Sir Richard Pole may have been chosen by King Henry VII as husband for his wife's cousin Margaret on the basis that he was 'safe' because his mother was a half-sister of Henry's own mother, Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond - that is, one of the St Johns, and her mother in turn, was a Beauchamp. Margaret’s fortunes improved with the accession of Henry VIII to the throne in 1509. On the morning of May 27, 1541, Margaret was told she was to be executed. Richard de la Pole had numerous interviews with King Francis I of France, and in 1523 he was permitted, in concert with John Stewart, 2nd Duke of Albany, the Scottish regent, to arrange an invasion of England, which was never carried out.[1]. She was the daughter of Walter Spencer Morgan Burns (1872–1929), a nephew of J. P. Morgan and grandson of Junius Spencer Morgan, both well-known American bankers,[5][6] and Ruth Evelyn Cavendish-Bentinck (1883–1978). While at Metz, he was visited by Pierre Alamire, the German-Netherlandish composer and music copyist, who was a spy for Henry VIII. Margaret lived at Bockmer in Medmenham and also in Stourton Castle in Staffordshire to remain close to her husband as he fulfilled his duties in Wales. The worst accusation which could be made against her was she didn’t allow her household and tenants to possess a copy of the Bible in English. Together, they had one son and two daughters: In 1979, after his first wife's death in 1977, Carew Pole married Joan Fulford, the widow of Lt-Colonel Anthony Fulford. His name until 1926 was John Gawen Pole-Carew. His mother was the elder of the two surviving daughters of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York and Cecily Neville. [1], He was excluded from the general pardon proclaimed at the accession of Henry VIII, and when Louis XII of France went to war with the Kingdom of England in 1512, he recognised Edmund's pretensions to the English crown and gave Richard a command in the French army. 28–29. He also had the daunting task of meeting with the council of Wales and Marches on how best to inform the King of his much loved eldest son's death on the 2 April 1502. Both of them became wards of the crown and there is evidence King Edward granted funds for Margaret’s upkeep. Margaret’s eldest son Henry, Baron Montague was arrested and attainted. A descendant of an ancient Welsh family, Sir Richard was a landed gentleman of Buckinghamshire, the son of Geoffrey Pole, Esquire[1] of Worrell, Cheshire, and of Wythurn in Medmenham, Buckinghamshire (1431 – 1474 / 4 January 1479[clarification needed], interred in Bisham Abbey). [2][3] He was succeeded by his son Sir Richard Carew Pole, 13th Baronet. He is also credited by some scholars with being the first author to demonstrate the artistic legitimacy of the vernacular English language, rather than French or Latin. He was in Brittany with 12,000 mercenaries set for the invasion, leading his army to St. Malo; however, France and England made peace just as they were about to embark and it was thus called off. [3] On the topic of the marriage William Shakespeare wrote "His [The Duke of Clarence's] daughter meanly have I match'd in marriage. Margaret was beatified by Pope Leo XIII in 1886 for laying down her life for the dignity of the Holy See and for the truth of the orthodox Faith. He was eventually pardoned but seems to have suffered from mental illness until his death in 1558. Pole was invested as a Knight of the Garter on April 1499. Pole was a member of the landed gentry and a half-cousin of King Henry on his mother’s side of the family. During 1486, King Henry had ordered Margaret’s brother Edward confined to the Tower and took steps to take his estate, viewing him as a threat to his dynasty’s claim to the throne. Marguerite, wife of Claude d'Orgeoise, seigneur of Montferrier. There were several manors that Margaret claimed were part to the Salisbury inheritance and King Henry argued they belonged to the duchy of Somerset. Henry Pole, his wife and his mother were beheaded by Henry VIII. [2] In a picture of the battle, preserved at the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, his lifeless body is represented in the thick of the combat with the inscription Le Duc de Susfoc dit Blance Rose (The Duke of Suffolk, known as White Rose). One of the little-known historic characters that's brought to life in the series is Margaret "Maggie" Pole, played by Laura Carmichael, ... Sir Richard Pole, who was a cousin of Henry VII. Richard’s status and income would rise under King Henry VII. She was also present at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth of York in November of 1487. [7] Sir Richard Pole may have been chosen by King Henry VII as husband for his wife's cousin Margaret on the basis that he was "safe" because his mother was a half-sister of Henry's own mother, Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond—that is, one of the St Johns—and her mother in turn was a Beauchamp. Margaret Plantagenet, Countess of Salisbury, Learn how and when to remove this template message, http://www3.dcs.hull.ac.uk/cgi-bin/gedlkup/n=royal?royal02275, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sir_Richard_Pole&oldid=972943713, Articles with dead external links from May 2018, Articles with permanently dead external links, Wikipedia articles needing clarification from December 2014, Articles needing additional references from March 2014, All articles needing additional references, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Sir Geoffrey Pole of Worrell and of Wythurn, 2.