Lasse & Anita - Person Sheet
NameMargaret Plantagenet , 10C14R
Birth14 Aug 1473, Farley Castle, Bath, Somerset, England
Death27 May 1541, Tower of London, London, England
Alias/AKAMargaret of Clarence, Countess of Salisbury
Notes for Margaret Plantagenet
Margaret Plantagenet, Countess of Salisbury (14 August 1473 – 28 May 1541), also called
Margaret Pole as a result of her marriage to
Sir Richard Pole, was the only surviving daughter of George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, a brother of Kings Edward IV and Richard III (all sons of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York), by his wife Isabel Neville. 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. 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. Pope Leo XIII beatified her as a martyr for the Roman Catholic Church on 29 December 1886.
When not at Court, Margaret lived chiefly at Warblington Castle in Hampshire and Bisham Manor in Berkshire.
She and her husband were parents to five children:
• Henry Pole, 1st Baron Montagu (c. 1492 – 9 January 1539), notable as one of the peers in the trial of Anne Boleyn; married Jane Neville, daughter of George Nevill, 5th Baron Bergavenny, and Joan Fitzalan, with whom he had four children; beheaded by order of Henry VIII. A great-grandson of Henry Pole was Sir John Bourchier, one of the regicides of Charles I of England, who was a great-great-grandnephew of Henry VIII.
• Arthur Pole (before 1499 – before 1532), Lord of the Manor of Broadhurst in Sussex; married Jane Lewkenor, daughter of Sir Roger Lewkenor and the former Eleanor Tuchet, herself daughter of the 6th Baron Audley and the former Anne Echingham. They had four children.
• Reginald Pole (c. 1500 – 17 November 1558), cardinal, papal legate in various regions, including England, and the last Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury.
• Geoffrey Pole (c. 1501–1558), Lord of the Manor of Lordington in Sussex, suspected of treason by King Henry VIII and accused of conspiring with Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor; lived in exile in Europe; married Constance Pakenham, granddaughter and heir of Sir John Pakenham. John Pakenham was an ancestor to Sir Edward Pakenham, brother-in-law to the Duke of Wellington.
• Ursula Pole (c. 1504 – 12 August 1570), married Henry Stafford, 1st Baron Stafford, and had some fourteen children.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Pole,_Countess_of_Salisbury