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Nov 30, 2016 · Reginald Cardinal Pole is the relatively forgotten figure of the English Reformation and the Catholic Counter-Reformation. While two biographies have recently been published, they are expensive ...
Oct 28, 2022 · Reginald Pole was a member of the Plantagenet royal house of England and graduated in Arts from Oxford University. In 1521, he was sent by King Henry VIII (1491–1547) to study in Padua, Italy, where he became an enthusiast of the “Christian philosophy” of the Italian Renaissance. During the 1520s and 1530s, he devoted himself increasingly ...
REGINALD POLE (1500-1558), cardinal and archbishop of Canterbury, was son — probably the third — of Sir Richard Pole (d. 1505), by his wife Margaret, who was of the blood royal [see Pole, Margaret ]. Born in March 1500 at Stourton Castle in Staffordshire, he was carefully brought up by his mother, and then spent five years at the school of ...
Cardinal Reginald Pole . Born in 1500 into the highest circles of the English aristocracy, becoming both cardinal and England’s last Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury, Reginald Pole steered a perilous course through the storm of the European Reformation. A brilliant scholarly career in Italy took him to Rome, from where he
Sources. An early life of Pole was written by his secretary BECCATELLI. It may be found printed in QUIRINI'S great collection, Epistola Reginaldi Poli et aliorum ad se (5 vols., Brescia, 1744-57); upon these materials was founded the History of the Life of Reginald Pole by PHILIPPS (Oxford, 1764), which still retains its value.
Reginald Pole, the third son of Sir Richard Pole and Margaret Pole, was probably born at Stourton Castle, Staffordshire, in March 1500. His mother was the daughter of George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence and of his wife, Isabel Neville. His grandfather was the younger brother of Edward IV and Richard III.
The son of a prominent Yorkist family and a cousin of Henry VIII, Reginald Pole was born in March 1500 near to the centre of English political power. After periods of education, partly financed by the King, at Magdalen College, Oxford (1512-1519) and the University of Padua (1521-1526) he arrived back in England in 1527 where he
