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Cardinal Pole

His Eminence
Reginald Pole
Cardinal, Archbishop of Canterbury
Primate of All England
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Province Canterbury
Diocese Canterbury
See Canterbury
Installed 1556
Term ended 17 November 1558
Predecessor Thomas Cranmer
Successor Matthew Parker
Personal details
Born (1500-03-03)3 March 1500
Stourton Castle, Staffordshire
Kingdom of England
Died 17 November 1558(1558-11-17) (aged 58)
London, Kingdom of England
Buried The Corona, Canterbury Cathedral, Kent
Nationality English
Denomination Roman Catholic
Parents Sir Richard Pole
The Countess of Salisbury
Alma mater Magdalen College, Oxford
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Styles of
Reginald Pole
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Reference style His Eminence
Spoken style Your Eminence
Informal style Cardinal
See Canterbury

Reginald Pole (12 March 1500 – 17 November 1558) was an English cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and the last Roman Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury, holding the office from 1556 to 1558, during the Counter Reformation.

Pole was born at Stourton Castle, Staffordshire, on 12 March 1500. to Sir Richard Pole and Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury, and was their third son. His 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.

His nursery is said to have been at Sheen Priory. He matriculated at Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1512, and at Oxford was taught by William Latimer and Thomas Linacre, graduating with a BA on 27 June 1515. In February 1518, King Henry VIII granted him the deanery of Wimborne Minster, Dorset; after which he was Prebendary of Salisbury and Dean of Exeter in 1527. He was also a canon in York, and had several other livings, although he had not been ordained a priest. Assisted by Bishop Edward Foxe, he represented Henry VIII in Paris in 1529, researching general opinions among theologians of the Sorbonne about the annulment of Henry's marriage with Catherine of Aragon.


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