'Pole02'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Pole of Montagu

It is not known if there was any connection between the family shown in 'Pole01' and ...

Sir Geoffrey Pole

m. Edith St. John (dau of Sir Oliver St. John of Penmark, later of Bletsho)

1.

Sir Richard Pole (d 11.1504)

Sir Richard Pole may have been chosen by King Henry VII as husband for his wife's cousin Margaret on the basis that he was 'safe' since his mother was a half-sister of Henry's own mother, Margaret Beaufort.

(22.09.1494) Margaret Plantagenet, Countess of Salisbury (b c1469, d 27.05.1541, dau of George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence)

Had Richard III defeated Henry Tudor at Bosworth and Edward IV been declared illegitimate, and assuming that Richard III then had no surviving issue himself, it is probable that the claim to England's throne would have passed through Margaret Plantagenet. Assuming for a moment that Margaret would have married Sir Richard had Henry Tudor not won Bosworth, surely very unlikely, such a claim would then have passed into the Hastings family and then, alongside the barony of Hastings, into the Rawdon family which later acquired the earldom of Loudoun. The succession to that hypothetical (and irrelevant albeit rather interesting) claim has since passed, sometimes through female lines, alongside the earldom of Loudoun.

A.

Henry Pole, Lord Montagu (b c1492, d 09.01.1538/9)

Henry was executed by Henry VIII for treason and his title was forfeited.

m. Jane Neville (dau of George Neville, 4th Lord Abergavenny)

i.

Henry Pole (d unm after 09.1542)

ii.

Katherine Pole (d 23.09.1576)

m. (25.06.1532) Francis Hastings, 2nd Earl of Huntingdon (d 20.06.1561)

iii.

Winifred Pole

m1. Sir Thomas Hastings (dsp)

m2. Sir Thomas Barrington of Barrington Hall

B.

Sir Geoffrey Pole

C.

Sir Arthur Pole

m. Jane Lewknor (dau of Sir Roger Lewknor)

i.

Henry Pole

D.

Reginald Pole, Cardinal

E.

Ursula Pole (d 12.08.1570)

m. (16.02.15158/9) Henry Stafford, 1st Lord Stafford (b 18.09.1501, d 30.04.1563)

Main sources: BE1883 (Pole of Montagu), TCP (Montagu)
Back to top of page