Arthur Pole

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Sir Arthur Pole (* around 1499 ; † between 1527 and 1532 ) was an English courtier and knight .

Life

Arthur Pole was the second son of Sir Richard Pole and Margaret Plantagenet . His younger brother Reginald Pole became a cardinal and the last Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury . His older brother was Henry Pole, 1st Baron Montagu . He was a second cousin of King Henry VIII.

He started his career at court in 1514 when he brought 18-year-old Princess Mary Tudor to France for her wedding to King Louis XII. accompanied. After he had distinguished himself at various tournaments , he became the personal squire of King Henry VIII in 1516. Two years later, in 1518, the king made him gentleman of the bedchamber . As a royal squire he also took part in the Camp du Drap d'Or in 1520 and distinguished himself in the tournaments there.

On October 31, 1523 he was beaten during a campaign in the French town of Roye by the royal deputy Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk to Knight Bachelor .

He was a squire at Broadhurst, Sussex .

Marriage and family

Arthur married before October 24, 1522 Jane Lewkenor (about 1492-1562), daughter and partial heir of Sir Roger Lewknor (1469-1543), lord of Trotton in Sussex, and widow of Sir Christopher Pickering (1490-1516), lord of Ellerton. He had four children with her:

  • Henry Pole (around 1525 – around 1533)
  • Margaret Pole (* 1527) ⚭ Sir John Fitz-Herbert
  • Mary Pole (* 1529) ⚭ Sir John Stanley
  • Jane Pole

Historian Hazel Pierce suspects that Arthur died of sweating in 1528 . In any case, he was documented on May 10, 1527 still alive and had already died when his widow remarried in 1532. He was buried in Bisham Monastery in Berkshire .

His widow married Sir William Barentyne (1481–1549) in 1532.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ William Arthur Shaw: The Knights of England. Volume 1, Sherratt and Hughes, London 1906, p. 45.
  2. ↑ Hazel Pierce: Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury 1473-1541. Loyalty, Lineage and Leadership. University of Wales Press 2009, ISBN 0708321895 .
  3. ^ Charles Mosley (ed.): Burke's Peerage and Baronetage . Volume 1, Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, Crans 1999, p. 16.
personal data
SURNAME Pole, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English courtier and knight
DATE OF BIRTH around 1499
DATE OF DEATH between 1527 and 1532