Reginald Pole was an English cardinal of the Catholic Church and the last Catholic archbishop of Canterbury, holding the office from 1556 to 1558, during the Counter-Reformation.
19 Facts About Reginald Pole
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Reginald Pole was named after the now Blessed Reginald of Orleans, OP.
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Reginald Pole's maternal grandparents were George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, and Isabella Neville, Duchess of Clarence; thus he was a great-nephew of kings Edward IV and Richard III and a great-grandson of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick.
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Reginald Pole received his early education at either Sheen Priory, Christ Church or Canterbury.
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Reginald Pole was a canon in York, and had several other livings, although he had not been ordained a priest.
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Reginald Pole lived in John Colet's former house at Sheen for a portion of the time he was living in England.
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Reginald Pole withheld his support and went into self-imposed exile in France and Italy in 1532, where he continued his studies in Padua and Paris.
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Reginald Pole answered by sending the king a copy of his published treatise Pro ecclesiasticae unitatis defensione, which, besides being a theological reply to the questions, was a strong denunciation of the king's policies that denied Henry's position on the marriage of his brother Arthur's widow and denied the royal supremacy.
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Reginald Pole urged the princes of Europe to depose Henry immediately.
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Reginald Pole was the fourth of the five English cardinals of the first half of the sixteenth century.
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Margaret Reginald Pole was held in the Tower of London for two and a half years under severe conditions; she, her grandson, and Exeter's son were held together and supported by the King.
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Reginald Pole is known to have said that he would "never fear to call himself the son of a martyr".
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Thomas Hoby, visiting Rome to be present during the conclave, recorded that Reginald Pole failed to be elected "by the Cardinall of Ferrara his meanes the voice of manie cardinalls of the French partie, persuading them that Cardinall Reginald Pole was both Imperiall and a verie Lutheran".
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In 1554, Cardinal Reginald Pole came to England to receive the kingdom back into the Catholic fold.
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Reginald Pole was buried on the north side of the Corona at Canterbury Cathedral.
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Reginald Pole was the author of De Concilio and of treatises on the authority of the pope and the Anglican Reformation of England, and of many important letters, full of interest for the history of the time, edited by Angelo Maria Quirini.
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Cardinal Reginald Pole is a major character in the historical novels The Time Before You Die by Lucy Beckett, The Courier's Tale by Peter Walker and The Trusted Servant by Alison Macleod, and features in Hilary Mantel's novel The Mirror and the Light, the third and last of her novels on the life of Thomas Cromwell.
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In Season 3 of Showtime's series The Tudors, Cardinal Reginald Pole is portrayed by Canadian actor Mark Hildreth.
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Reginald Pole is a major character in Queen of Martyrs: The Story of Mary I by Samantha Wilcoxson.