Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury 1473-1541: Loyalty, Lineage and Leadership
by:
Hazel Pierce (author)
In this first biography of a significant female figure in the male-dominated world of British Tudor politics, Hazel Pierce reconsiders the life and martyrdom of Catholic duchess Margaret Pole against the changing social and political landscape of her times. Pole, niece of both Edward IV and...
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In this first biography of a significant female figure in the male-dominated world of British Tudor politics, Hazel Pierce reconsiders the life and martyrdom of Catholic duchess Margaret Pole against the changing social and political landscape of her times. Pole, niece of both Edward IV and Richard III, was the only woman apart from Anne Boleyn to hold a peerage in her own right during the sixteenth century, and this important contribution to medieval scholarship provides a matchless understanding of aristocratic women during that time period, as well as new interpretations of Henry VIII and his relationship with the nobility.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780708321898 (0708321895)
Publish date: April 15th 2009
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Pages no: 192
Edition language: English
Margaret Pole, like Elizabeth of York, is a Plantagenet princess who becomes lost to history with the dawning of the Tudor dynasty. Even less is written about this daughter of George of Clarence than her cousin who became Henry Tudor's queen. This was the only biography of her life that I was able t...
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