His Eminence Reginald (Pole), Cardinal Pole

1500 - 1558  (~ 58 years)

• Name	Reginald (Pole)  [1]
  Title	His Eminence
  Suffix	Cardinal Pole
  Born	March 1500  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Education	Charterhouse, Sheen   [1]
  Education	Magdalen College, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England   [1]
  Degree	1515  [1]
  	Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
  Office	1527  [1]
  	Dean of Exeter
  Office	1532–1535  [1]
  	Vicar of Piddletown, Dorset
  Decoration	Dec. 1536  [1]
  	Cardinal of the Church
  Office	Dean of Wimborne Minster  [1]
  Office	Prebend of Salisbury  [1]
  Office	1549  [1]
  	Abbot of Gavello or Canalnuovo
  Office	1555–1556  [1]
  	Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
  Office	1556  [1]
  	Chancellor of the University of Oxford
  Office	1550–1558  [1]
  	Archbishop of Canterbury
  	He was the last Roman Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury.
  Died	17 Nov. 1558  [1]
  Person ID	I428	British Peerage & Gentry
  Last Modified	25 June 2018

  
  

  Father	Sir Richard Pole,   b. Between 1458 and 1459,   d. 1504  (Age ~ 46 years)
  Mother	Saint Margaret (Plantagenet), suo jure Countess of Salisbury,   b. 14 Aug. 1473, Farley Castle, Farleigh Hungerford, Somerset, England ,   d. 27 May 1541, Tower of London, London, Middlesex, England  (Age 67 years)
  Married	circa Nov. 1487  [2]
  Family ID	F192	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Heraldry

  Arms of His Most Reverend Eminence Reginald Cardinal Pole, Archbishop of Canterbury

  
  

• Sources

  [S2] BP 2003, Charles Mosley (ed.), (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd., 2003), volume 1, page 18. [S9] Oxford D.N.B., H. C. G. Matthew (ed.), (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), H. Pierce, "Pole, Margaret, suo jure countess of Salisbury (1473-1541), noblewoman".