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- [S336458] Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World, Alison Weir, (New York: Balentine Books, 2013), 474.
"Eleanor Pole, the wife of Sir Ralph Verney, was one of Elizabeth's favorite ladies. She was the daughter of Geoffrey Pole by Edith St. John, and therefore Margaret Beaufort's half sister. Later she would serve Katherine of Aragon. Henry VIII awared her a pension for good service to his mother."
- [S42] Letters and Papers of the Verney Family, John Bruce, (London: John Boyer Nichols and Sons, 1853), 31.
- [S42] Letters and Papers of the Verney Family, John Bruce, (London: John Boyer Nichols and Sons, 1853), 30.
"...Eleanor Pole, was daughter of sir Geoffrey Pole, K.G., and Edith his wife, who was a daughter of Oliver St. John and Margaret Beauchamp of Bletsoe. After the death of Oliver St. John, Margaret married secondly John duke of Somerset, and by that marriage was mother of Margaret countess of Richmond, mother of king Henry VII. Lady Verney was also sister to sir Richard Pole, chief gentle man of the bedchamber to prince Arthur and K.G., who married the lady Margaret Plantagenet, daughter of George duke of Clarence, brother of king Edward IV. This was the unhappy lady who, under the title of countess of Salisbury, was barbarously sacrificed to the tyrannical jealousy of Henry VIII. Cardinal Pole was one of her sons by sir Richard Pole, and was consequently a nephew of lady Verney."
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