346 Notes on the Arms of Cardinal Pole. 



Coming at last to Margaret Plantagenet we find that after , 

 Clarence she still gives precedence to Neville (her mother) in her j 

 arms ; hut that, hy way, apparently, of emphasising her Beauchamp>j ] 

 descent, 1 she separates the Neville coat from its associated quarter- 1 

 ings, Montacute and Monthermer, and places Eeauchamp and I 

 Newburgh before them, immediately after Neville of Salisbury. | 

 Her seal 2 has a demiangel with wings expanded holding a shield I 

 divided into eight equal divisions in two rows, thus : — 1 and 2 I 

 contain France Modern quartering England with the label of Clarence, I 

 3 has Neville of Salisbury, and 4, Beauchamp ; in the second row i 

 are, 5, Newburgh, 6, Montacute, 7, Monthermer, 8, De Clare jj 

 quartering Le Despencer. At first sight this shield has the ap--| 

 pearance of being properly quarterly of 8, but it is really quarterly | 

 of 7, three coats in chief and four in base. The engraver, I 

 with the object of giving as much prominence as possible to the ) 

 royal arms, and perhaps with an eye to symmetry, has given two 

 quarters to Clarence, and it must be admitted that the general 

 effect of the arrangement is very pleasing. 



It is to this remarkable example of marshalling that we owe the 

 arrangement of the coat which suggested these notes. For it will 

 be seen by a comparison of the blazon of Margaret Plant a genet's 

 shield with the drawing of her son's armorials that his shield is 

 simply hers with the addition of Pole inserted between Clarence 

 and Neville. 



1 It can hardly have been for any other reason. It may, it is true, have 

 been a kind of tacit assertion of a claim to the Earldom of Warwick, since, 

 " on the death of her brother Edward in 1499 she was the sole heir, not only 

 of her father, but of her maternal grandfather, Richard Neville, Earl of 

 Warwick and Salisbury, and of his wife Anne (Beauchamp) suo jure Countess 

 of Warwick . . . but no restoration (of that earldom) ever took place, 

 and she is never (even in the loose form of description which prevailed) spoken 

 of as Countess of Warwick." (Complete Peerage, by Gr. E. C, vol. vii., p. 39.) 

 The earldom of Warwick in fact was forfeited on the attainder of Edward 

 Plantagenet, and though his Salisbury honours were restored to his sister and 

 sole heir at her petition in 1519, the title of Warwick was not so restored and 

 remained dormant till it was revived as an entirely new creation in 1547 in 

 the person of John Dudley. 



2 Harl. Charters, 43, F. 8, 10. 



