Pole family

THE ‘PRINCESS’ OF COLYTON

Jan 9, 2024

anniversaries, battles, buildings, genealogy, religion

Catherine of York, choking, churches, Colyton, Courtenays, executions, Fotheringhay, James I, Joan “Beaufort”, Katherine C, Margaret Beaufort, Pole family, Tewkesbury, William Earl of Devon

The church at Colyton is a handsome building which has a ‘lantern’ tower vaguely reminiscent of that at Fotheringhay. It is packed with interesting monuments, including those of the local Pole family (not, apparently, related to the more famous Poles.) The most intriguing monument, though, lies to the left of the high altar. It…
So wrong he could be right?

Feb 25, 2020

anniversaries, genealogy, law, religion, Science

Algernon Sidney, Algernon Swinburne, Anne Boleyn, annulments, Anthony Hoskins, Bishop Ridley, Catherine Carey, Catherine of Aragon, DNA analysis, Edward VI, Elizabeth I, Elizabeth II, execution, Genealogists’ Magazine, Henry Caret Lord Hunsdon, Henry Fitzroy, Henry VIII, Horace Round, Horatio Nelson, illegitimacy, Ireland, John Ashdown-Hill, Josiah Wedgwood, Lady Anne Somerset, Lady Antonia Fraser, Mail on Sunday, Marie Barnfield, Mary Boleyn, Mary I, Norman Baker, P.G. Wodehouse, Peter Hammond, Pole family, Princess Daisy, Queen Mother, Ralph Vaughan Williams, rebellions, Robert 2nd Earl of Essex, royal finance, Sabine Baring-Gould, Society of Genealogists, Vita Sackville-West, William Carey, William Cowper

This article, by the former MP Norman Baker, appeared in the Mail on Sunday. Actually, the original version was much longer and referred to Elizabeth II as a descendant of Henry VIII. This is an egregious howler, surely, because all of his actual descendants died by 1603 (or the last day of 1602/3 in the…
Victoria and Flora

Sep 12, 2016

genealogy

Catherine Pole, denialists, dispensations, Earls of Loudoun, Flora Hastings, Francis Baron Hastings, George Duke of Clarence, Jenna Coleman, Pole family, Prince Henry of Wales, satire, television reviews, Victoria

http://www.itv.com/hub/victoria/2a4229a0001 It is more interesting to watch a drama about a much later monarch when one is better informed than before. Lady Flora Rawdon-Hastings, the lady in waiting who appeared to be pregnant but was suffering from a cancer that proved terminal after a few months, was the sister of the 2nd Marquess of Hastings…
Henry Pole the Younger rides again?

Sep 6, 2016

Book Reviews, genealogy

Catherine Pole, Constance of York, George Baron Bergavenny, Hazel Pierce, Henry Lord Montagu, Henry Pole the Younger, Jane Neville, Margaret of Salisbury, Mary I, Pole family, Sir Edward Neville, Winifred Pole

https://murreyandblue.wordpress.com/2014/02/28/whatever-happened-to-henry-pole-the-younger-2011/ https://murreyandblue.wordpress.com/2014/02/04/a-plantagenet-on-television-2009-3/ Yes, that Henry Pole. A contact asked us recently whether his mother (nee’ Jane Neville) had been arrested in November 1538 and executed with her husband (Henry Lord Montagu) and others that December or January. Online sources are confused about this. However, we do know that she was the daughter of George Baron…
Of well-connected Archbishops

Apr 29, 2016

genealogy, religion, Science

Anthony Montague Browne, Archbishop of Canterbury, Charles Manners-Sutton, DNA evidence, Dukes of Rutland, Edward III, James I, Joan “Beaufort”, Justin Welby, Mary I, Pole family, Reginald Cardinal Pole, Richard III, Swynfords

Before the English Reformation, Archbishops were often related to the King, a spare brother from a branch of the Royal family. There were commoners, increasingly so as the years went on. Then the Reformation ensured that the clergy were no longer required to be celibate. Focussing particularly on the province of Canterbury, there have been…
To answer a visitors’ question:

Sep 28, 2014

genealogy

arthur pole, Gunpowder Plot, Lordington, Mary Stuart, Orsini palace, Pole family, Sir Geoffrey Pole

We have had a few views recently, asking “why was arthur pole executed?”. Well, we don’t think he was. There were several Arthur Poles: 1) The first (Sir Arthur, 1502-35) was probably the youngest son of the Countess of Salisbury but there are no suggestions that he died from other than natural causes. 2) The…
The four Geoffrey Poles

Apr 6, 2014

genealogy

“Tudor” persecution, Gunpowder Plot, Pole family, Reginald Cardinal Pole

The first of these was Welsh, a potential descendant of the princes of Powys who died in c. 1479 (1). He married Edith St. John, half-sister of the younger Margaret Beaufort and they had one son (Richard) and possibly a daughter (Eleanor), although the latter could have been his daughter by Bona Danvers. Richard was…
The delayed burial of Arthur Pole?

Mar 11, 2014

genealogy

“Tudor” persecution, Henry Pole the Younger, Pole family

As many of you are aware, Bisham Abbey has been a sports centre of sorts for many years now but the Priory was the burial place of the Earls of Salisbury (and later also of Warwick). There is a mystery on it’s website:http://www.bishamabbeynsc.co.uk/bisham_abbey/ABOUT_Historyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Pole_%281502%E2%80%931535%29 (Sir) Arthur Pole was another of Richard III’s great-nephews and managed to…