Henry VIIIs later statements to the contrary, his marriage to Katharine began happily and continued so for some years. Her father, already Duke of Clarence, was then created Earl of Salisbury and of Warwick. To ease the situation, Margaret devoted her third son, Reginald Pole, to the Church; he was to have an eventful career as a papal Legate and later as Archbishop of Canterbury. Thomas More is the "Man For All Seasons" in the title of the play. With Margarets female peers, there is a gap between what they say and what they do, what they are and what they appear to be. He wore many hats: chief diplomat, speechwriter, advisor. Mores wife had been like most women of her time ill-educated, and during their brief marriage, he taught her Latin and other subjects. Inventories paint the picture: tableware of silver and gold, Venetian glass, mother-of-pearl, tapestries portraying the journeys of Ulysses and the discovery of Newfoundland; the countess herself, tall, stately, wears ermine, tawny damask, black satin and black velvet. These are not consistent; and ifas he claimed at one pointPole rejected the Divorce in 1526 and refused the Oath of Supremacy in 1531, he received benefits from Henry for a course of action for which others were sentenced to death. Her first son, Henry Pole, was created Baron Montagu, another of the Neville titles, speaking for the family in the House of Lords. Margaret Poles death, notoriously, was not a clean end. Margaret Pole was restored to a position as lady-in-waiting, which helped her financial situation. Henry Courtenay och Margaret Pole och fngslades i Towern. Her many fortified houses and castles, the number of tenants she could turn out, the belligerent propaganda from abroad all these brought the whole family into deep suspicion. Margaret was not executed with her eldest son, but was held in the Tower for the last years of her life the king paying her bills, outfitting her as became a great lady in furred petticoats and a satin nightgown. After she had redeemed her dead brothers lands from the crown, she owned property in Calais, and estates in Wales and 17 English counties. Put a different hood on her, and she could be a man one of her own Plantagenet relations. She was a devout and learned young woman, and though we primarily know her as the older wife who could not bear Henry his desired son and heir, she was once young and pretty and well-liked. She is the daughter of a duke and the niece of two kings, Edward IV and Richard III. What a contemporary described as her nobility and goodness soon put her back in royal favour. Sir Thomas Pole was a member of the aristocracy in England. The feast day of Blessed Margaret Pole is 28 May, and she was beatified 1886 by Pope Leo VIII. Their old friendship was past; the kings new advisors were anti-Catholic and pro-Protestant, most notably among them was Thomas Cromwell. Seldom distracted from voicing their headline concerns, her people give each other a lot of information, in unmodulated voices, each time they speak. Margaret, wife of Sir William Harington. In 1540, Cromwell fell from favour and was attainted and executed. Ursula Pole, Baroness Stafford the daughter of Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury and Sir Richard Pole. Posted By Claire on May 27, 2012. Best Known For: Thomas More is known for his 1516 book . Her mother was one of the greatest heiresses of her time while her father was the younger brother of King Edward IV of England. Margaret Pole was one of only two women in the 16th century to hold a peerage in her own right. You can find out more about our use, change your default settings, and withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future by visiting Cookies Settings, which can also be found in the footer of the site. This phrase has been interpreted as meaning Edward was of low intelligence; it only means that he was unworldly, and Higginbotham sees this. Did she, as the regime alleged, burn the evidence that incriminated her? When Henry gave the nod for the execution to take place, no one was give. Margaret's only surviving sibling was Edward, Earl of Warwick. Thomas More: A very brief history June 29, 2017; Henry VIII's Westminster Tournament 1511 June 5, 2017; Towards the block I shall not go! If you use any of the content on this page in your own work, please use the code below to cite this page as the source of the content. His father was not supportive, but More was fully prepared to be disowned rather than disobey Gods will. She spent much of her time at Warblington, where she was nicely placed, in the event of an invasion, to help the rebels against Henry; or so you thought, if you were one of Henrys councillors. In 1886, Margaret would be beatified by Pope Leo XIII as a martyr to Henrys regime. The trial of Sir Thomas More for treason opened in Westminster Hall on July 1, 1535. [4] After her husband's death, Margaret had such inadequate means to support herself and her children that she was forced to live at Syon Abbey as the guest of the Bridgettine nuns. He badgered Katharine ceaselessly. Shortly thereafter, (probably in November 1487) Henry VII gave Margaret in marriage to his cousin, Sir Richard Pole, whose mother was a half-sister of the king's mother, Margaret Beaufort. It took many blows to finally kill her and this botched execution was itself remembered and, for some, considered a sign of martyrdom. If he had trusted her once, he no longer did so. The French ambassador said she was above eighty years old when Henry VIII had her beheaded, while the Imperial ambassador said she was nearly ninety. But not before Lina imparted . The hands are the standard-issue long-fingered type; a black ribbon, added later, may conceal damage to the paint. The eldest daughter of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, Margaret was the sister of Henry VIII. He married Anne Neville, a younger sister of Margaret's mother, Isabel. "Margaret Pole, Tudor Matriarch and Martyr." On the scaffold, Margaret prayed for the royal family all except Anne Boleyns daughter, Elizabeth, whom she regarded as illegitimate. There was a new king, a handsome, athletic young man who had once been destined for the church. The former Lord Chancellor Sir Thomas More is beheaded for High Treason after refusing to recognise King Henry VIII's religious supremacy. Margaret's third son, Reginald Pole, studied abroad in Padua. For Mores part, he undoubtedly appreciated his second wifes superb housekeeping skills for they allowed him the freedom to pursue his increasingly successful career. Margaret's relationship with Henry VIII, must have been good. She was now one of the richest people in England. Her mother, Isabel, daughter of the above-mentioned "King-maker," died 22nd December, 1476, and her father in the Tower nearly two years later. After Henry VIII and then his son Edward VI had died, and Mary I was queen, with the intention to restore England to Roman authority, Reginald Pole was appointed papal legate to England by the Pope. Some stories even claim this was at his own request, having been permitted to choose the manner of his execution. Credit: PjrWindows / Alamy Stock Photo. Her father was Shakespeares false, fleeting, perjured Clarence, who died in the Tower of London at the age of 29, attainted for treason and supposedly drowned in a butt of malmsey. Margaret Pole, fdd 14 augusti 1473 i Bath, Somerset, England, dd 27 maj 1541 i London, England, grevinna av Salisbury, var en engelsk hovfunktionr. Soon, young Edward, a potential York claimant to the throne, was moved to the Tower of London. Calculate relationship; Relationship with x x (Sosa/Ahnentafel #1) Relationship with Thomas Chaworth (spouse) More . In 1499, Margarets brother Edward apparently tried to escape from the Tower of London to take part in the plot of Perkin Warbeck who claimed to be their cousin, Richard, one of the sons of Edward IV who had been taken to the Tower of London under Richard III and whose fate was not clear. Margaret's mother died when she was three; her father had two servants killed when he thought they had poisoned her. London, WC1A 2HNletters@lrb.co.uk The only people to escape the toxicity of the court were Lina (Stephanie Levi-John) and Oviedo (Aaron Cobham), who decided to seek a new life in the Ottoman Empire. (We should note, however, that More brilliant and perceptive was never especially comfortable in his kings good graces. And he was well-connected enough to later secure his sons appointment as household page to John Morton, the archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Chancellor of England. To that end, he spent the next three years in study and prayer, wearing a hair shirt next to his skin (a practice he never abandoned), and struggling to reconcile his genuine religious fervor with the demands of the outside world. For a time, she and her younger brother were in the care of their maternal aunt, Anne Neville, who was married to their paternal uncle, Richard of Gloucester. Henry wrote to Margaret, who in turn wrote to her son, reproving him for his "folly". Henry VIII was a Catholic ruler, and enjoyed friendly relations with the papacy until he sought to divorce Katharine. When Catherine of Aragon gave birth to a daughter, Mary, Margaret Pole was asked to be one of the godmothers. And because of his early education in religious matters, Henry was no mere spectator in religious debate. His brother came to the throne in 1509 as Henry VIII, married the widowed Catherine, and in a first flush of goodwill began to repair the damage to Margarets fortunes. After Katherina of Aragon's death, Princess Mary turned toward Margaret Pole as a second mother, and now her father was going to take away this beloved maternal figure from her as well. Her daughter Ursula married the Duke of Buckingham's son, Henry Stafford, but after the Duke's fall, the couple were given only fragments of his estates. Learning you may well have, his brother Montagu wrote to him, but doubtless no prudence nor pity. Reginald had compared himself to a surgeon ready to cut away diseased flesh from the body of England: not the most tactful metaphor, when your anointed king is dragging about with an ulcerated leg. Of the many executions ordered by Henry VIII, surely the most horrifying was that of sixty-seven-year-old Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, hacked to pieces on the scaffold by a blundering headsman. . Edward was then brought out and displayed briefly to the public. Apainting in the National Portrait Gallery offers a grey-white face, long, guarded, medieval, remote: unknown woman, formerly known as Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury. You see, we speak of being anchored to our principles. The next year, when her sons were mixed up with Buckingham, she was removed from that appointment, but later restored to it by 1525. Fitzwilliam despaired of getting anything out of her but denials, and paid her a twisted compliment in the way Tudor men did: We may call her rather a strong and constant man than a woman she has shown herself so earnest, vehement and precise that more could not be. When he told her that her goods had been seized, she must have known it was the beginning of the end, and seemeth thereat to be somew[hat] appalled, but neither then nor at any later point did she profess anything but loyalty to Henry and regret at her familys folly. But that was years in the future. On 1 July 1535, he was indicted on high treason. Perhaps the contrast with the quiet, gentle Jane was too striking. There are panel paintings of Pole in the following churches: There are stained glass windows of Pole in the following churches: On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. During her time in prison, Cromwell himself was executed. Margaret's mother was the eldest daughter of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick. When Margaret was only four years old, her father was killed in the Tower of London where he was imprisoned for rebelling again against his brother, Edward IV; rumor was that he was drowned in a butt of Malmsey wine. by Susan Higginbotham. The prestige of her ancient family, her traditionalist stance in religion, and her status as a peer in her own right all these defined a woman who might wish to resist the new order. Margarets uncle Richard of Gloucester became king in 1483 as Richard III, and reinforced young Margaret and Edwards exclusion from the line of succession. He had an illegitimate son, called Henry Fitzroy, by one of his early mistresses. The chronology defeated observers, as if her life stretched back into a fabulous era when dragons roamed. She managed her lands quite well, and became one of the five or six wealthiest peers in England. Certainly Henry wanted Mores support. Known for:Her family connections to wealth and power, which at some times of her life meant she wielded wealth and power, and at other times meant she was subject to great risks during great controversies. Read anywhere with the London Review of Books app, available now from the App Store for Apple devices, Google Play for Android devices and Amazon for your Kindle Fire. Answer (1 of 6): Anne Boleyn's death would have been instant and painless - to the extent that we can guess, anyway. When Richard Pole died in 1504 Margaret had had to borrow money to give him a suitable funeral. And the king was not pleased with the young lawyer; he promptly imprisoned Mores father in the Tower until he paid a substantial fine. Margaret, warned of the threat he represented to her own interests and life, said: I trow he is not so unhappy that he will hurt his mother, and yet I care neither for him, nor for any other, for I am true to my Prince., At this point she was questioned rigorously by Henrys councillor William Fitzwilliam. His natural piety was at odds with other courtiers, all of whom jockeyed ceaselessly for the kings favor. It was then discovered that More had written to John Fisher, the bishop of Rochester, who was also imprisoned in the Tower for not taking the oath. Richard Pole held a variety of offices in Henry VII's government, the highest being Chamberlain for Arthur, Prince of Wales, Henry's elder son. Thomas came from wealthy families, from trade (his father was a wealthy baker) and the law. It gave the king pause, and More was allowed to return home. The main character is Joanna Stafford, a Dominican novice. Elizabeth Darrell, later Thomas Wyatts mistress, refused the oath; Lady Hussey, wife of one of Marys household, was imprisoned because she would not accept Marys exclusion from the succession and insisted on addressing her as a princess. He did not struggle with the reduction in means, and busied himself with planning a tomb for himself and his wives , as well as defending his faith in various pamphlets. They were charged with treason. [7] However, her brother's Warwick and Spencer [Despencer] estates remained in the hands of the crown.[8]. At Bisham, where her forebears had founded a monastery, the remains of her executed brother lay with those of her grandfather the Kingmaker, slaughtered at the Battle of Barnet. It is only in adversity that Margaret shows herself, in the records of her interrogations, when she was a woman in her sixties, experienced, shrewd, hard to frighten. Joan (Margaret) Pole ca 1333-Married toThomas Chaworth ca 1331-1373 Paternal grand-parents, uncles and aunts. He lived in relative poverty, for he held no office and relied solely upon the hundred pounds per annum he collected from a property rental. But polite prevarications only worked for so long and soon More was a genuine courtier, with all its attendant duties and benefits. He was keenly interested in theology, but he was not ordained; he was free to marry if he wished, and propagate a Plantagenet family. He grew up cultivated and cosmopolitan, sensitive, lively-minded. He had once served under Wolsey and knew More well. A tradition has grown up that George was drowned in a vat a malmsey, an expensive sweet wine. Edward IV declared that Margaret's younger brother, Edward, should be known as Earl of Warwick as a courtesy title, but no peerage was ever created for him. Anne was the anointed queen. Henry was negotiating a glorious marriage for Prince Arthur, to a daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella. Born in 1473 into a world of bloody dynastic feuds, she survived under the first Tudor and thrived under the second, until she and her family, long suspected of plots against the regime, were destroyed. According to some stories, which are not accepted by many historians, she refused to lay her head on the block, and guards had to force her to kneel. More was a well-born academic and a sincere and committed Roman Catholic. And the king was now newly enamored of a young noblewoman called Anne Boleyn. Here is where it gets complicated. Margaret was one of just two women in 16th-century England to be a peeress in her own right (suo jure) without a husband in the House of Lords. In June 1535, after he had been imprisoned for over a year, Cromwells servant, Richard Rich, now solicitor general, stated that he had spoken with More and More had denied Parliaments power to make Henry head of the church. More also engaged in a public war of words on the kings behalf with Martin Luther, the father of the Reformation. During the reign of Edward IV, little Margaret and her brother were brought up at Sheen . His naivety meant that, when threats to the regime mounted, he was easily entrapped. And so he was. Hilary Mantel. In this first biography of a significant female figure in the male-dominated world of British Tudor politics, Hazel Pierce reconsiders the life and martyrdom of Catholic duchess Margaret Pole against the changing social and political landscape of her times. In Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, 1473-1541, Hazel Pierce was unable to corroborate Richard Morisyne's assertion that as a young widow Margaret Pole made her home with the other Bridgettine nuns at Syon abbey.However, the household accounts of Lady Margaret Beaufort (held at St. John's College, Cambridge) reveal that this was indeed the case, recording payments to her from . Despite such evidence of royal favor, it is likely that More chafed at his service to the king. This site requires the use of Javascript to provide the best possible experience. He worked eight years as undersheriff and proved himself an impartial judge and able administrator. But in the meantime, More had eighteen months of seclusion and study at his home in Chelsea. . And so, when More returned from a diplomatic mission to France in summer 1527, the king laid the open Bible before his favorite councilor. He died on 8 August 1420. She was married to James IV of Scotland from 1503-1513, which united the royal houses of England and Scotland. When Arthur married Catherine of Aragon, she became a lady-in-waiting to the princess. In some cases, they conspired against the crown while claiming, if it went badly, that their weak female brains had been addled by male influence, and that fragility and brittleness allowed their trust to be easily abused. When historical novelists are looking for ways to empower their heroines they opt for making them hotshot herbalists or minxy witches. But no one could be sure they were dead, and not escaped abroad, or living under assumed names. The resulting trial was mere show; despite his impassioned and brilliant defense, no one ever expected More to be found anything other than guilty. She was the niece of Edward IV and Richard III of England by way of their brother George Plantagenet, 1 st Duke of Clarence. He handled his responsibilities with his usual skill, but it was a balancing act, and an increasingly dangerous one. John More was a successful lawyer who was later knighted and made a judge of the Kings Bench; he was prosperous enough to send his son to Londons best school, St Anthonys at Threadneedle Street. She served later as a governess to Mary. The two children were of use to him; their maternal family, the Nevilles, commanded allegiance in the north. [27] She is commemorated in the dedication of the Church of Our Lady Queen of Peace & Blessed Margaret Pole in Southbourne, Bournemouth.[28]. His father, Sir Richard Pole, was a cousin of King Henry VII, and his mother, Margaret, countess of . Mores letters indicate that he was not particularly keen to enter royal service. The new pretender, Ralph Wilford, was arrested and killed before the conspiracy bred any action. But eventually the break between the king and his chief minister could not be ignored. Henry, the eldest son, though knighted and given the family title Lord Montagu, did not share the general admiration for the king. Cromwell was an astute politician whose beliefs changed at the whim of his royal master. Yet if you were to ask Mores contemporaries to describe him, their words would be as conflicted and contradictory as the man himself. His home at Chelsea was as close as Tudor England would come to an 18th century French salon. Chapuys suggested to Emperor Charles V that Reginald marry Mary and combine their dynastic claims. Christ in Thy Mercy, save Thou me! [3], Margaret was born at Farleigh Castle in Somerset, the only surviving daughter of George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, and his wife Isabel Neville, who was the elder daughter of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, and his wife Anne Beauchamp, 16th Countess of Warwick. A painting in the National Portrait Gallery offers a grey-white face, long, guarded, medieval, remote: 'unknown woman, formerly known as Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury'. But they have never been proven, and in fact they seem pretty far fetched. [2] As one of the few members of the House of Plantagenet to have survived the Wars of the Roses, she was executed in 1541 at the command of King Henry VIII, the second monarch of the House of Tudor, who was the son of her first cousin, Elizabeth of York. Now he decided to seriously test his religious convictions. Please include name, address, and a telephone number. The veteran plotter Gertrude Courtenay was treated with clemency; unlike Margaret, she was not a free agent but a married woman subject to her husband, and not a claimant to the throne in her own right. Both men were enthusiastic Humanist scholars, but they parted ways with regard to the kings prerogative. First I went on the Internet to find some ways of measuring wind speed. Her mother, the great heiress Isabel Neville, died in 1476 after giving birth to her fourth child; this last baby, like Isabels first child, did not live. The second season of The Spanish Princess premieres on Starz on Sunday, October 11. 1 Through his father he was descended from Edward III's son, Thomas of Woodstock, and his mother was Catherine Woodville, sister of Edward IV's queen, Elizabeth Woodville; she afterwards married Henry VII's uncle, Jasper Tudor, Duke of Bedford. She is a close student of the sources, and careful not to stuff her novels with false excitements. It was not a bloodbath, but a selective cull, carried through by process of law. Margaret and Richard Pole had five children, born between about 1492 and 1504: four sons and the youngest a daughter. She answered that no crime had been imputed to her. He would arrive unbidden, to either eat with the family or walk in the garden with More, his arm slung casually about Mores shoulders. Edward was briefly displayed in public at St Paul's Cathedral in 1487 in response to the presentation of the impostor Lambert Simnel as the "Earl of Warwick" to the Irish lords. It is unlikely she had seen him for many years, but in any case, mourning for a traitor was inadvisable. Reginald studied in Italy in 1521 through 1526, financed in part by Henry VIII, then returned and was offered by Henry the choice of several high offices in the church if he would support Henrys divorce from Catherine. But if the great Sir Thomas More believed the king to be wrong? It was Mores impassioned speeches against this large and unjust burden that made the king reduce it by more than two thirds. He had a true gift for friendship and inspired deep loyalty amongst his family and friends. Mores only communication with Barton had been to warn her against meddling in affairs of state. He dictated letter after letter. Afterwards, he made a botched suicide attempt. Pole, niece of both Edward IV and Richard III, was the only woman apart from Anne Boleyn to hold a peerage in her own right during the . Either her sons had not made her aware of their dealings, Fitzwilliam concluded, or she was an adept in brazen deceit. After his death, and for centuries thereafter, Sir Thomas More was known as the most famous victim of Henry VIII's tyranny. [13], In 1537, Reginald (still not ordained) was made a Cardinal. . The charge was treason. In 1876, during restoration work on the chapel of St Peter ad Vincula, the bones of a tall, elderly woman came to light. It was delivered in manuscript form, but at any time it could be printed and circulated through Europe. But Reginald Pole refused to do so, leaving for Europe in 1532. This conviction meant they lost their titles and their landsmostly in the South of England--conveniently located to assist any invasion. [5] When Perkin Warbeck impersonated Edward IV's presumed-dead son, Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York, in 1499, Margaret's brother Edward was attainted and executed for involvement in the plot. Retrieved from https://www.thoughtco.com/margaret-pole-tudor-matriarch-and-martyr-3530618. Annes personal religious feeling was unimportant. We do know that he tried in vain to support the kings position. Henry accepted Mores resignation. Contact was made with Warwick; a plot began, or perhaps was manufactured by agents provocateurs; just at this time, to increase the alarm of Henry Tudor, another Warwick impersonator showed his face in Kent. But to Mores credit, he made an impassioned plea for greater freedom of speech in parliament. He was no fool; he noted Wolseys great and increasingly ostentatious wealth. This More was fully prepared to do. Henry wanted Reginald to come back to England and talk the matter over, but Reginald had the sense to keep his distance. Thomas More was beheaded in 1535 for his refusal to accept the Acts of Supremacy and the Act of Succession (1534) of Henry VIII of England and swear allegiance to Henry as head of the English Church. Henry VII also decided, about that time, to marry the 15-year-old Margaret to his half-cousin, Sir Richard Pole. Six months later, Cromwell produced a tunic marked with the wounds of Christ, claiming it had been found in that search, and used that to arrest Margaret, though most doubt that. After his marriage to Anne Boleyn and the birth of their daughter, Elizabeth, Mary was sent to join the household of the infant princess. In: Ghosts and Hauntings. Biography. The supposed discovery, six months after her house and effects were searched at her arrest, is likely to have been a fabrication. As a young man, he seriously contemplated joining the priesthood, only to become one of the most successful politicians of his time. Although a jury of twelve men would have . She was the Spanish princess, Katharine of Aragon, one of the daughters of the Catholic rulers of Spain. Allida is tongue-tied with An Impossible Thing to Say by Arya Shahi, in which an Iranian American teen in Arizonafalls in love with the new girl at school, Shakespeare, and rap music while . When you visit the site, Dotdash Meredith and its partners may store or retrieve information on your browser, mostly in the form of cookies. Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury (14 August 1473 - 27 May 1541), was an English peeress.She was the daughter of George, Duke of Clarence, and Isabel Neville and was niece of kings Edward IV and Richard III.Margaret was one of two women in 16th-century England to be a peeress in her own right with no titled husband. It stated that all who were called upon must take an oath acknowledging Anne as Henrys wife and their future children as legitimate heirs to the throne. If my head should win him a castle in France, he told his son-in-law in 1525, it should not fail to go.). Henry VII had controlled them first while her brother was a minor and then during his imprisonment; he later confiscated them after his trial. 28 Little Russell Street He was first appointed a Privy Councilor and accompanied Wolsey to an important diplomatic mission to Europe. His eldest daughter Margaret married the lawyer William Roper in 1521, and More continued his practice of prayer and supervision of learning at his home. Arthur Pole suffered a setback when his patron Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, was convicted of treason in 1521, but he was soon restored to favour. Margaret Pole was the daughter of George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, brother to Edward IV, and a leading figure in the Wars of the Roses. More had already begun writing his History of King Richard III as well; it is considered the first masterpiece of English history and is wholly pro-Tudor. By Caroline Hallemann Published: Nov 24, 2020 This is Aalto. By 1527, the king was in his mid-thirties, and his wife six years older. Fortunately for the old cardinal, he died before the king could kill him. Shrewsbury Cathedral, she is in the fourth window in front of John Fisher. The popular image is of a man principled, steadfast, courageous who placed his own conscience above his kings demands. The Duke of Clarence plotted against Edward IV and in February 1478 was attainted and executed for treason. (Edward would have had a better right to the throne as son of Richards older brother.) It was during this trip that he began to write Utopia, his most famous work. Portrait of an unknown woman, often identified as the Countess of Salisbury, DWYER, J. G. "Pole, Margaret Plantagenet, Bl.". 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