Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury 1473-1541
Loyalty, Lineage and Leadership
Distributed for University of Wales Press
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.
1. Ancestry and Marriage, 1473-1504
2. Widowhood and Restoration, 1504-1519
3. The Countess of Salisbury: A Female Magnate
4. The Beginning of the End, 1519-1538
5. The Fall of the Pole Family, 1538
6. Assessment
Epilogue
Appendix I: Genealogical Tree of Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury
Appendix II: Map of the Lands of the Countess of Salisbury in 1538
Appendix III: The Lands of the Countess of Salisbury in 1538 and their Descent
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