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Margaret Plantagenet, Countess of Salisbury (14 August 1473 – 27 May 1541), was the only surviving daughter of George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence (a brother of Kings Edward IV and Richard III) and his wife Isabel Neville. [2] [3] As a result of Margaret's marriage to Richard Pole, she was also known as Margaret Pole.
As a woman of noble birth, Margaret Pole was given a private execution. There are two accounts of her execution – One says that she was executed by an inexperienced axeman who missed her neck the first time, gashing her shoulder, and that it took a further ten blows to finish her off.
Margaret was born into the England of the Wars of the Roses and was the daughter of George, Duke of Clarence, one of Edward IV’s younger brothers and was of the House of York. Margaret’s only surviving sibling was Edward, Earl of Warwick.
On 27 May 1541, Lady Margaret Pole – another victim of Henry VIII’s increasingly bloody regime – was led to her execution inside the Tower. But Margaret was no scheming minister or prisoner of conscience. She was a 67-year-old woman who had spent her life serving the Tudors.
Margaret Plantagenet was now the only member of her family alive, but she was not alone. At the age of 14, Margaret was married to Richard Pole, a loyal subject of the king and relative of Margaret Beaufort.
Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, born on 14 August 1473, was the only surviving daughter of George, Duke of Clarence, and his wife, Isabel Neville. She was the niece of Edward IV and Richard III, and cousin of Elizabeth of York, Henry VII’s consort.
Margaret Pole, executed by Henry VIII, was the daughter of a disgraced brother of Edward IV and Richard III, and mother of cleric Reginald Pole.
The execution of Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury. On the morning of May 27 1541, the Constable of the Tower informed Margaret that she was to die that day. She responded by saying that she was guilty of no crime but neither her words, nor her advanced age, could save her now.
Salisbury, Margaret Pole, countess of (1473–1541). Margaret Plantagenet was a daughter of George, duke of Clarence, and a niece of Richard III. She married Sir Richard Pole who died in 1505.
Biography of Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, mother of Cardinal Reginald Pole, the Pope's legate during King Henry VIII's 'Great Matter'. She was, for a time, governess to the Princess Mary. Henry VIII had her unjustly executed.