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When she was 14 years old, Henry VII arranged her marriage to his favoured cousin and loyal servant, Richard Pole, [21] who was 11 years her senior and from a gentry family. [23] Whilst Richard's mother Edith St. John [ 23 ] was an older half-sister of the King's mother, Margaret Beaufort , [ 24 ] making him from a Lancastrian supporting family ...
Thomas Pole (b. aft. 1519 or in 1520), married Elizabeth Wingfield. Without issue. Henry Pole (b. aft. 1520 or in 1521 – aft. September 1542), married Margaret Neville. According to Alison Weir he was born in 1527. He was imprisoned from an early age at the Tower of London until his death. [7] Winifred Pole (b. aft. 1521 or in 1525), married
Richard de la Pole (died 24 February 1525) was a pretender to the English crown. Commonly nicknamed "White Rose", he was the last Yorkist claimant to actively and openly seek the crown of England. He lived in exile after many of his relatives were executed, becoming allied with Louis XII of France in the War of the League of Cambrai .
The king, with Reginald Pole himself out of his reach, took revenge on Pole's family for engaging in treason by word against the king. The leading family members and even Pole's mother, Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, were executed, and all their properties seized. The action destroyed the Pole family. [4]
After his mother's execution, many of the Pole family lands were seized by the crown, but some were returned to Geoffrey in 1544. In 1548, he fled England and found his way to Rome, and threw himself at the feet of his brother, Cardinal Reginald Pole, saying he was unworthy to be called his brother for having caused another brother's death.
Reginald Pole, along with his brothers, sister, and mother, are the central family in Phillipa Gregory's historical novel The King's Curse. Cardinal Reginald Pole is a major supporting character in Rosamund Gravelle's play appears as a main character in Rosamund Gravelle's debut play Three Queens , [ 39 ] [ 40 ] with the role first played by ...
Date of Execution Details Edmund Dudley: 17 August 1510 Member of the Council Learned in the Law, Speaker of the House of Commons, and President of King's Council under Henry VII. Executed for constructive treason. Sir Richard Empson: Speaker of the House of Commons and knight of the shire for Northamptonshire in the English Parliament under ...
Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury (14 August 1473 – 28 May 1541); married Sir Richard Pole; executed by Henry VIII. Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick (25 February 1475 – 28 November 1499); executed by Henry VII on grounds of attempting to escape from the Tower of London.