ARTHUR POLE - Another Heir and Victim of Queen Elizabeth/QE1 [1531-1570 - died in the Tower of London] We have seen the QE1 systematically imprisoned and/or murdered by execution anyone who had a whiff of claim to the throne of England. Here we have another. The POLEs descended from King Edward III. Arthur was the son of Geoffrey who was the son of Countess Margaret Pole of Salisbury. The Countess was the daughter of Prince George, brother of King Edward IV /KE4 of England (see TV series White Queen for a quick review). Thus the Poles were direct Heirs to the throne which the Tudors were NOT. The Tdors had no legal claim to the throne, the claim was through the killing of King Richard III - the youngest brother of KE4. The Countess was murder-executed for being an Heir to the throne by Tudor King Henry VIII in 1541. Her son Geoffrey escaped KH8 heir murder scheme by fleeing to the european continent, safely returning when Queen Mary Tudor took the throne. Arthur and his brother Edmund Pole were the surviving Heirs from the King Edward III and IV line. So therefore they were arrested and placed in prison - the Tower and convicted for the treason of being an Heir, by Queen Elizabeth in 1562. In 1566 Arthur Pole managed to smuggle a letter out of the Tower, possibly through connections with fellow prisoner and top-Heir Margaret Douglas Lennox, she was imprisoned by QE1 for being an Heir and for being mother of 2 more Heirs - Darnley and Charles. You may recall Margaret Lennox died of poisioning after QE1s boyfriend Dudley-Leicester came to dinner in 1578. Calendar of Scottish Papers (CSP) 5 July 1566 #407 Cecil spy Rogers intercepted the letter from Pole in the Tower. The Yaxley noted was drowned by foul or accident means unknown. Yaxley... brought.. letteres from the kynges mother (Lady Lennox) in the Tower and one from Mester Poule also there. Which Mr. Polue has given all his right to the crown of England to the King and Quene of Scotland. In 1570 Arthur died in the Tower from infectious disease, despair, the plague or murder. The cause of death may be less important than the fact that he was placed there, like all of QE1s Heir-prisoners, to die. Unfortunately the Poles were executed-murdered-imprisoned so quickly by the Tudors (exception QMT) that they did not have time to get their portrait painted. But we have plenty of portraits of QE1 so we will have to be satisfied with that substitution.
Posted on: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 19:36:49 +0000
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