Margaret Pole : the Countess in the Tower
Higginbotham, Susan2016
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Of the many executions ordered by Henry VIII, surely the most horrifying was that of sixty-seven-year-old Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, hacked to pieces on the scaffold by a blundering headsman. From the start, Margaret's life had been marred by tragedy and violence: her father, George, Duke of Clarence, had been executed at the order of his own brother, Edward IV, and her naive young brother, Edward, Earl of Warwick, had spent most of his life in the Tower before being executed on the orders of Henry VII. From Margaret's birth as the daughter of a royal duke to her beatification centuries after her death, this book tells the story of one of the fortress's most unlikely prisoners.
Main title:
Margaret Pole : the Countess in the Tower / Susan Higginbotham.
Author:
Higginbotham, Susan, author
Imprint:
Stroud, Gloucestershire : Amberley, 2016.
Collation:
vii, 214 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes QR code.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781445635941 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
942.052092
Language:
English
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BRN:
1885773
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