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Reginald Pole (12 March 1500 – 17 November 1558) was an English cardinal and the last Catholic archbishop of Canterbury, holding the office from 1556 to 1558, during the Counter-Reformation.
Reginald Pole (born March 3, 1500, Stourton Castle, Staffordshire, Eng.—died Nov. 17, 1558, London) was an English prelate who broke with King Henry VIII over Henry’s antipapal policies and later became a cardinal and a powerful figure in the government of the Roman Catholic queen Mary Tudor.
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Jan 29, 2020 · Reginald Pole (1500–1558) is one of the great figures of Tudor history. Born a Plantagenet, he numbered two kings of England as great-uncles and Henry VIII (1491–1547) as a kinsman.
Reginald Pole was born in March 1500, the fourth child of Sir Richard Pole and Margaret Pole, niece of King Edward IV and later countess of Salisbury. In 1511, Pole matriculated at Magdalen College, Oxford, graduating as Bachelor of Arts in 1515.
Biography of Cardinal Reginald Pole, the Pope's legate during King Henry VIII's 'Great Matter', who incurred the wrath of Thomas Cromwell.
May 14, 2018 · Pole, Reginald (1500–58). Cardinal and archbishop of Canterbury . Pole was a younger son of Margaret, countess of Salisbury , daughter of George, duke of Clarence : he was therefore of the blood royal and his mother was governess and companion of Princess Mary.
Oct 21, 2023 · 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.
