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Margaret remained dynastically important to the new Tudor dynasty due to her Yorkist lineage and unquestionably noble blood. [22] 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]
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
The action destroyed the Pole family. [4] Sir Geoffrey Pole was arrested in August 1538; he had been corresponding with Reginald, and the investigation of Henry Courtenay, Marquess of Exeter (Henry VIII's first cousin and Reginald Pole's second cousin) had turned up his name; he had appealed to Thomas Cromwell, who had him arrested and ...
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 .
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.
Arizona officials prepare to carry out the state's first execution since 2014 when a botched lethal injection put a temporary halt to the practice.
Impalement, as a method of torture and execution, is the penetration of a human by an object such as a stake, pole, spear, or hook, often by the complete or partial perforation of the torso. It was particularly used in response to "crimes against the state" and is regarded across a number of cultures as a very harsh form of capital punishment ...
The Sunni extremist group ISIS has released a video claiming to show the beheading of American journalist James Foley. The video, which we have chosen not to show, went viral Tuesday. Both YouTube ...