Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, 1473-1541: Loyalty, Lineage and Leadership.(Book Review)

Hazel Pierce. Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, 1473-1541: Loyalty, Lineage and Leadership. Cardiff, Wales: The University of Wales Press; dist. by Independent Publishers Group, Chicago. 2003. Pp. x, 273. $79.95. ISBN 0-7083-1783-9.

The end of the Wars of the Roses and the ascension of the Tudor family to the throne of England marked an end to the aristocratic civil war that had been raging on and off for thirty years. It did not, however, mark the end of the danger faced by those families with political aspirations and more direct claims to the English throne. Hazel Pierce's ...

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