Cardinal Pole
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His Eminence Reginald Pole |
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| 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 |
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| Born |
3 March 1500 Stourton Castle, Staffordshire Kingdom of England |
| Died | 17 November 1558 (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 |
| Coat of arms |  |
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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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