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Reginald Pole

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Reginald Pole

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Auction Date:2012 May 16 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
English cardinal of the Catholic Church (1500–1558) and the last papal Archbishop of Canterbury. Very rare LS in Italian, one page, 8.5 x 11.25, Rome, January 21, 1557. Letter to Cardinal Santangelo demanding that Francesco Vannuccio be named governor of Ascoli instead of Ancona, and praising his qualities, among which his having well served the family of his correspondent. Reverse of second integral page bears two docketing notations and wax seal remnant. Intersecting folds, some scattered light creasing and toning, and reinforcement along hinge, otherwise fine condition. While in Rome, in the early 1530’s, Pole resisted his cousin Henry VIII’s pressure to validate his divorce with Catherine of Aragon and defied him again in 1536 when the incensed king decided to have his brother and mother imprisoned and later executed, in a terrible revenge, Henry also plotted to murder Pole in Italy. Twenty years later, under Henry’s daughter Mary’s reign, Pole was made Archbishop of Canterbury, and it is in this position that he signs the present letter, less than two years before his own death.