Henry Lord Montagu

The Mysterious Disappearance of Henry Pole the Younger in the Tower of London

Jan 9, 2023

anniversaries, art, buildings, genealogy, religion, sources

Charles de Marillac, clerical celibacy, Cowdray, Edward Courtenay, Edward IV, executions, Francis I, George Duke of Clarence, Hazel Pierce, Henry Lord Montagu, Henry Pole the Younger, Henry VII, Henry VIII, hypocrisy, Letters and Papers of Henry VIII, Margaret of Salisbury, Mary I, Paul Delaroche, Reginald Cardinal Pole, Richard III, Richard of Warwick, royal apartments, royal tutors, Sir Geoffrey Pole, starvation, Tower of London

Reblogged from A Medieval Potpourri @sparkypus.com Picture this…a young lad of about thirteen or thereabouts. Royal Plantagenet blood coursing through his veins. His father is dead and no longer able to neither protect nor save him. His mother is also no longer around to help or comfort him. Life has changed for him…
Another branch of the Pole family?

Oct 23, 2022

anniversaries, battles, buildings, genealogy, heraldry, sources

baronets, Civil War, Claydon House, Compton Verney, Edge Hill, Eleanor Pole, Geoffrey Pole I, Hastings family, Henry Lord Montagu, Henry Pole the Younger, Henry VII, Ireland, Lord Mayors of London, Lordington, Margaret of Salisbury, Middle Claydon, siege of Drogheda, Sir Arthur Pole, Sir Ralph Verney, Sir Richard Pole, Staffords, Ursula Pole Lady Stafford, Verneys, Visitation of Hampshire

We know that Sir Richard Pole, cousin of Henry VII, husband of Margaret, Countess of Salisbury, grandfather of Henry Pole the Younger and progenitor of the later Stafford and Hastings families, as his own male line was extinct by 1619, was an only son and that the identity of his paternal grandfather is unclear. It…
L’Erber – London Home to Warwick the Kingmaker and George Duke of Clarence

Oct 17, 2022

anniversaries, battles, buildings, genealogy, law, religion, sources, travel

Anne Neville, Barnet, Checkers Yard, Coldharbour, Crowland Chronicle, Dowgate Hill, Earl of Oxford, Edward IV, executions, George Duke of Clarence, Great Fire of London, Henry Lord Montagu, Henry VIII, high treason, Isobel Neville, John Strype, Kingsford, l’Erber, London, Margaret of Salisbury, Nevilles, past maps, Ralph Earl of Westmorland, Reformation, Reginald Cardinal Pole, Richard III, Richard III Society, Richard of Salisbury, Richard of Warwick, River Thames, sanctuary, Sir Francis Drake, St. Martin’s, Stow’s Survey, Thames Street, Tower of London, Visscher Panorama of London, Wars of the Roses, Warwick Lane, William Latimer

My latest A Medieval Potpourri @sparkypus.com post London before the Great Fire and much as Richard Neville ‘The Kingmaker’ and his family would have known it… L’Erber stood slightly to the north west of Coldharbour which is the large house seen here in middle of the picture and facing the Thames. No depiction of L’Erber…
Another interesting hypothesis

Jan 30, 2022

anniversaries, battles, genealogy, law, religion

Arbella Stuart, Bavaria, Britain’s Real Monarch, Charles “III”, Clementina Walkinshaw, Culloden, Diana Princess of Wales, Edward of Warwick, executions, Glorious Revolution, Greys, Henry “IX”, Henry Lord Montagu, Henry Pole the Younger, Henry VIII, hypotheses, illegitimacy, Jacobites, James of Monmouth, James VII/II, John Ashdown-Hill, Lady Katherine Grey, Liechtenstein, Margaret of Salisbury, marriage law, Michael K Jones, Poles, Royal Marriage Secrets, Sardinia, Scotland, Seymours, Spencers, Tony Robinson, Useful Charts

On Thursday, we published a presentation by “Useful Charts”, showing how the English throne may have descended had Henry VIII’s will been followed after 1603 as it had beforehand. Of course, the family in question may have fared differently anyway if Lady Katherine Grey, her Seymour husband, and son and Arbella Stuart, the latter’s wife,…
History and cultural history (III)

Jan 9, 2020

anniversaries, genealogy, heraldry, The play’s the thing

Claudius, Cordelia, Council of the North, curtains, Earls of Salisbury, Earls of Warwick, Elizabeth I, executions, Hamlet, Henry Earl of Huntingdon, Henry Lord Montagu, I Claudius, King Lear, kyphosis, names, Polonius, Richard III, Robert Cecil, scoliosis, Shakespeare

We have already shown how Shakespeare was inadvertently influenced by contemporary or earlier events in setting details – names, events, badges or physical resemblance – for his Hamlet, King Lear and Richard III. What of Romeo and Juliet, thought to have been written between 1591-5 and first published, in quarto form, in 1597? The most…
Does this later case explain Henry Pole the Younger’s fate?

Aug 4, 2019

anniversaries, battles, genealogy, religion

Antonio of Portugal, Archbishop of Canterbury, Battle of Alcacer Quibir, Catherine of Aragon, clerical celibacy, Elizabeth of York, Eustace Chapuys, Gregory XIII, Henry Courtenay Marquis of Exeter, Henry Lord Montagu, Henry of Portugal, Henry Pole the Younger, House of Aviz, Joanna, Manuel, Mary I, Phillip II, Portugal, Reginald Cardinal Pole, Richard III, Sebastian, Sir Geoffrey Pole, Spain, Thomas Courtenay Earl of Devon

In the years from 1518, before he left England again in 1536, Reginald Pole occupied a number of ecclesiastical ranks, including that of Dean of Exeter. During the early 1530s, just as Henry VIII sought his first annulment, Eustace Chapuys was pressing Reginald to marry Princess Mary, the cousin he eventually served from Lambeth Palace.…
Some notes on Henry Pole the Younger

May 29, 2018

anniversaries, Book Reviews, buildings, genealogy

Charles de Marillac, Francois I, Galway, Hazel Pierce, Henry Lord Montagu, Henry Pole the Younger, Henry VIII, Ireland, Letters and Papers of Henry VIII, Lord Leonard Grey, Pope, Reginald Cardinal Pole, servants, sources, Spain, Thomas Courtenay Earl of Devon, Tower of London

These are taken from Pierce’s biography of his paternal grandmother Margaret, Countess of Salisbury, we have some sinister clues to his fate. Our witness is Charles de Marillac, French ambassador from 1538-43, whose correspondence with Francois I is copiously quoted in the Letters and Papers of Henry VIII. de Marillac wrote on 1 July 1540…
Illustrated by SHW

Jan 9, 2018

anniversaries, art, genealogy, heraldry

Anne Neville, battles, Bosworth, cartoons, Cecily Duchess of York, executions, Exeter Cathedral, exile, George Duke of Clarence, George Washington, Hazel Pierce, Henry Courtenay Marquis of Exeter, Henry Lord Montagu, Henry Pole the Younger, Henry VIII, humour, Isobel Neville, Jane Neville, Margaret of Salisbury, marriages, Mary I, ODNB, Reginald Cardinal Pole, Richard Duke of York, Richard III, Richard Neville, SHW, Sir Edward Neville, Sir Geoffrey Pole, Thomas Courtenay Earl of Devon, Tower of London, Wakefield

Today in 1538-9, Henry Pole Lord Montagu, was beheaded for treason, after the “plot” involving his brother, Reginald, later a Cardinal. It was previously thought that Reginald was a sub-deacon for many years, was only properly ordained in late 1536 and thus could have married at any time before this. However, it is now clear…
Margaret Pole Countess of Salisbury 1473-1541 Loyalty Lineage and Leadership by Hazel Pierce.

May 27, 2017

anniversaries, Book Reviews, religion

Anne Boleyn, book review, Christchurch Priory, Earl of Southampton, Edward IV, Edward of Warwick, executions, George Duke of Clarence, Hazel Pierce, Henry Lord Montagu, Henry Pole the Younger, Henry VII, Henry VIII, Human Shredder, Margaret of Salisbury, Mary I, Reginald Cardinal Pole, Sir Geoffrey Pole, Sir Richard Pole, St. Peter ad Vincula, Tower of London, Warblington Castle

Those looking for an in-depth assessment of the life of Margaret Pole need look no further. Hazel Pierce has more than adequately supplied it in her biography of Margaret – Margaret Pole Countess of Salisbury 1473-1541 Loyalty Lineage and Leadership. Covering Margaret’s life from early childhood – orphaned at five years old, Margaret’s earlier needs…
An award for masochism?

Sep 11, 2016

buildings, genealogy

Edward IV, Elizabeth I, executions, exiles, George Duke of Clarence, Gertrude Blount, Henry Courtenay Marquess of Exeter, Henry Lord Montagu, Henry Pole the Younger, Henry VIII, Italy, Margaret of Salisbury, Mary I, Padua, Phillip II, Reginald Cardinal Pole, Sir Edward Neville, Sir Geoffrey Pole, Thomas Courtenay Earl of Devon, Tower of London, Wyatt Rebellion

The 1538 plot first saw Sir Geoffrey Pole arrested that autumn and compelled, by a threat to torture his servants, to give evidence about the activities of his exiled brother Reginald and other relatives. Henry Pole Lord Montagu and Henry Courtenay Marquess of Exeter were arrested next, together with Montagu’s son Henry the Younger and…