1. Reginald Pole was an English cardinal and the last Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury, holding the office from 1556 to 1558 during the Counter-Reformation.
22 Facts About Reginald Pole
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Reginald Pole was named after the now beatified Reginald of Orleans, OP.
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Reginald Pole's maternal grandparents were George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, and Isabel 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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Accounts vary as to where Reginald Pole received his early education: either Sheen Priory, Christchurch or Canterbury.
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Reginald Pole went on to be Prebendary of Salisbury, and Dean of Exeter in 1527.
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Reginald Pole was a canon in York, and had several other livings, albeit not yet ordained a priest.
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Three months later, Reginald Pole returned home, arriving from France escorted by Thomas Lupset.
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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, refuting Henry's position on marrying his brother Arthur's widow and denying 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 on orders of the King.
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Reginald Pole's execution was gruesome, botched by an inexperienced executioner, who delivered nearly a dozen blows before she was finally killed.
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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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In 1542 Reginald Pole was appointed as one of the three papal legates to preside over the Council of Trent.
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Thomas Hoby, visiting Rome so as to be present in the city 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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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, of a treatise on the authority of the pope and of a set of measures introduced by him to restore Catholic practice in England.
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Reginald Pole was the author of many important letters, full of interest for the history of the time, edited by Angelo Maria Quirini.
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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.
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Cardinal Reginald Pole is a major supporting character in Rosamund Gravelle's play appears as a main character in Rosamund Gravelle's debut play Three Queens, with the role first played by Les Kenny-Green.