Editing Reginald Pole (section)

== Early life ==
Pole was born at [[Stourton Castle]], [[Staffordshire]], on 12 March 1500,<ref>{{Cite book|title=History, Gazetteer and Directory of Staffordshire|publisher=Published by the author.|last=White|first=William|date=1834|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_mw9Mgl6AHr8C/page/n265 261]|location=Sheffield|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_mw9Mgl6AHr8C}}</ref> the third son of [[Sir Richard Pole]] and [[Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury]]. He was named after the now [[beatified]] [[Reginald of Orleans]], [[Dominican Order|O.P.]] His maternal grandparents were [[George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence]],<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Mayer |first=Thomas F. |date=1999 |title=A Reluctant Author: Cardinal Pole and His Manuscripts |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3185877 |journal=Transactions of the American Philosophical Society |volume=89 |issue=4 |pages=i–115 |doi=10.2307/3185877 |jstor=3185877 |issn=0065-9746}}</ref> and [[Isabel Neville, Duchess of Clarence]]; thus he was a great-nephew of kings [[Edward IV]] and [[Richard III]] and a great-grandson of [[Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick]].

Accounts vary as to where Pole received his early education: either [[Sheen Priory]], [[Christchurch, Dorset|Christchurch]] or [[Canterbury]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LKqq55MgdVQC|title=Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places|last1=Thornbury|first1=George Walter|last2=Walford|first2=Edward|publisher=Cassell|year=1872|volume=2|location=London, England|page=553}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite ODNB |title=Pole, Reginald (1500–1558), cardinal and archbishop of Canterbury |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-22456 |access-date=2023-04-03 | date=2004 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/22456 | last1=Mayer | first1=T. F. }}</ref> Shortly thereafter, he [[matriculated]] at [[Magdalen College, Oxford]], in 1512. At Oxford he was taught by [[William Latimer (clergyman)|William Latimer]], his principal tutor,<ref name=":0" /> and [[Thomas Linacre]], who taught him at some point between 1518 and 1520.  In 1512, [[Henry VIII]] had paid him a pension of £12, renewed the following year; intended to go towards his education.<ref name=":0" /> Pole graduated with a [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]] degree on 27 June 1515. In February 1518, King Henry granted him the [[deanery]] of [[Wimborne Minster]], [[Dorset]]. He went on to be [[Prebendary]] of [[Salisbury]], and [[Dean of Exeter]] in 1527.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.britannia.com/bios/abofc/rpole.html|title=Reginald Pole, Archbishop of Canterbury|publisher=Britannia Biographies|date=1908|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080807164517/http://britannia.com/bios/abofc/rpole.html|archive-date=7 August 2008|url-status=dead|access-date=2011-12-05}}</ref> On 19 March 1518 he was appointed prebend of ''Ruscombe Southbury, Salisbury'',<ref name="Volume 4 1991">listed as a prebendary in Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300: Volume 4, Salisbury. Institute of Historical Research, London, 1991.</ref> only to exchange that on 10 April 1519 for ''[[Yetminster]] secunda''.<ref name="Volume 4 1991"/><ref name=":0" /> He was also a [[Canon regular|canon]] in [[York]], and had several other livings, albeit not yet ordained a [[priest]]. Assisted by Bishop [[Edward Foxe]], he represented Henry VIII in [[Paris]] in 1529, probing general opinion among theologians of the [[University of Paris|Sorbonne]] on the [[annulment]] of Henry's marriage with [[Catherine of Aragon]].<ref name="odnb">{{Cite ODNB|id=22456|title=Pole, Reginald}}</ref>

In 1521, with a £100 stipend from King Henry VIII, Pole went to the [[University of Padua]]. It was here that he met leading [[Renaissance]] figures, including [[Pietro Bembo]], [[Gianmatteo Giberti]] (formerly [[Pope Leo X]]'s [[datary]] and chief minister), [[Jacopo Sadoleto]], Gianpietro Carafa (the future [[Pope Paul IV]]), [[Rodolfo Pio]], [[Otto Truchsess]], [[Stanislaus Hosius]], [[Cristoforo Madruzzo]], [[Giovanni Morone]], [[Pier Paolo Vergerio the younger]], [[Peter Martyr Vermigli]] and Vettor Soranzo. The last three were eventually to be condemned as [[Heresy|heretic]]s by the Catholic Church. As a widely known [[Protestantism|Protestant]] theologian, Vermigli contributed significantly to the [[English Reformation|Reformation]] in Pole's native England.

Pole's studies in [[Padua]] were partly financed by his election as a [[fellow]] of [[Corpus Christi College, Oxford]]. More than half of the cost was met by Henry VIII himself,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.lambethpalacelibrary.org/files/Reginald_Pole.pdf|title=Lambeth Palace Library Research Guide: Reginald Pole, Archbishop of Canterbury (1500-1558)|website=Lambeth Palace Library|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101031213103/http://lambethpalacelibrary.org/files/Reginald_Pole.pdf|archive-date=31 October 2010|access-date=2019-09-16}}</ref> on 14 February 1523. This allowed him to study abroad for three years.

While in Padua, Reginald's brother, [[Henry Pole, 1st Baron Montagu]], presented to him the living of South Harting, Sussex on 10 April 1526.{{clarify|date=December 2024}}{{citation needed|date=December 2024}} Three months later, Pole returned home, arriving from France escorted by [[Thomas Lupset]]. He was appointed prebend of [[Knaresborough]] in [[York Minster]] on 22 April 1527. On 25 July 1527, Pole was presented a [[Canon (title)|canonry]] in [[Exeter Cathedral]], to be declared Dean just four days later.<ref name=":0" /> Pole was sent to Paris in October 1529, but returned home in the summer of 1530.  For some of his time in England he lived in [[John Colet]]'s former house at Sheen.<ref name=":0" />