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Article: Hazel Pierce, Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, 1473-1541: Loyalty, Lineage and Leadership.(Book Review)
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- Medium Aevum
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- March 22, 2005
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Hazel Pierce, Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, 1473-1541: Loyalty, Lineage and Leadership (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2003), x + 273 pp. ISBN 0-7083-1783-9. 40.00 [pounds sterling].
Hazel Pierce's biography falls into two parts. The first four chapters trace the whirling fortunes of Margaret Pole, daughter to the Duke of Clarence, from the 1470s to the 1530s. They explore several themes familiar to fifteenth-century historians: the career of a magnate; the nobility's relationship to the monarchy; the character and management of an affinity and estate (the latter traced in two admirably set-out appendices). They also introduce another powerful widow, ...