<Tr> <Th> Alma mater </Th> <Td> Magdalen College, Oxford </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Coat of arms </Th> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <P> Reginald Pole (12 March 1500--17 November 1558) was an English cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and the last Roman Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury, holding the office from 1556 to 1558, during the Counter Reformation . </P> <P> Pole was born at Stourton Castle, Staffordshire, on 12 March 1500 . to Sir Richard Pole and Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury, and was their third son . His maternal grandparents were George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, and Isabella 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 . </P>

The last catholic archbishop during the counter reformation