Margaret Pole (neé Plantagenet) was the Countess of Salisbury and, for a time, also the godmother and Governess of Princess Mary Tudor. Margaret is a devout Catholic and a member of the House of York, which fought Henry's father during the War of the Ro
From The Red Queen Richard, from the castle at Nottingham, sends a commission to all the shires of England to remind them of their duty to him, and proclaiming the threat of Henry Tudor. He orders them to put aside all local disputes and be ready to muster in his cause. He orders Eli...
She never stopped plotting for her son, and when he finally invaded and rode onto Bosworth Field it was Margaret who provided the ally, the husband she had married for this very moment. Henry Tudor won the battle saved by his stepfather’s cavalry; he received his crown on the battlefield...
Aged just 12, Margaret was married to Edmund Tudor, a mandoubleher age. Even by the standards of Medieval marriage, such an age gap was unusual, as was the fact that the marriage was consummated immediately. Margaret gave birth to her only child, Henry Tudor, aged 13. Her husband Edmund...
InNovember1538, various members of the Pole family were arrested for treason and taken to the Tower of London. InJanuary1539, many of them were executed. Even though the Countess was elderly (for Tudor times), being 65 years of age in 1538, she was questioned and taken to Cowdray House ...
David Cressy, Birth, Marriage, and Death: Ritual, Religion, and the Life-cycle in Tudor and Stuart England (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), 440. See also, Lou Taylor, Mourning Dress: A Costume and Social History (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1983), 104. Google ...
his Political Discourses in 1752 as a further volume of essays; the first two volumes of the History in 1754 and 1756 (covering the Stuart period until the 1688 Revolution); the third and fourth (dealing with the Tudors) in 1759; and the final two volumes covering pre-Tudor history in 17...