Margaret Pole, Plantagenet of York, Lady Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury, (Saint Margaret) – 1473–1541

BIRTH 14 AUGUST 1473 • Farleigh Hungerford Castle, Somerset, England
DEATH 27 MAY 1541 • (aged 67) Tower of London, London, England (beheaded)

1st cousin 15x removed
14th Great Grandmother

Last night while working on my family tree, I discovered my cousin Maggie was also my 14th great-grandmother. Poor Maggie. Her life was so difficult. From her traumatic childhood to the horrendous botched beheading at the Tower of London by Henry VIII, her life was full of drama and trauma.

One account of her execution reports she was proud and defiant to the bitter end:

Margaret refused to lay her head on the block, declaiming, “So should traitors do, and I am none”; according to the account, she turned her head “every which way”, instructing the executioner that, if he wanted her head, he should take it as he could.

She lived life fully. “Well done, Margaret. You lived a life well lived”.

Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury

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Margaret Pole
Countess of Salisbury Blessed
Portrait of unknown sitter, traditionally thought to be of the Countess of Salisbury^[1]
Born	14 August 1473 Farleigh Hungerford Castle, Somerset, England
Died	27 May 1541 (aged 67) Tower of London, London, England
Noble family	York
Spouse(s)	Sir Richard Pole
IssueHenry Pole, 1st Baron Montagu Arthur Pole Reginald Pole Geoffrey Pole Ursula Pole, Baroness Stafford
Father	George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence
Mother	Isabel Neville

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. ^[2] One of the few surviving members of the Plantagenet dynasty after the Wars of the Roses, she was executed in 1541 at the command of Henry VIII, who was the son of her first cousin Elizabeth of York. Pope Leo XIII beatified her as a martyr for the Catholic Church on 29 December 1886. ^[3]

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Early life

Margaret was born at Farleigh Hungerford Castle in Somerset, the only surviving daughter of George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, and his wife Isabel Neville, who was the elder daughter of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, and his wife Anne de Beauchamp, 16th Countess of Warwick. Her maternal grandfather was killed fighting against her uncle, Edward IV, at the Battle of Barnet. Her father, already Duke of Clarence, was then created Earl of Salisbury and of Warwick. 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. Margaret would have had a claim to the Earldom of Warwick, but the earldom was forfeited on the attainder of her brother Edward. ^[4]

Margaret’s mother died when she was three, and her father had two servants killed who he thought had poisoned her. George plotted against Edward IV, and was attainted and executed for treason; his lands and titles were forfeited. Edward IV died when Margaret was ten, and her uncle Richard, Duke of Gloucester, after Edward’s marriage was declared invalid by the Three Estate of the Realm and his children illegitimate, and since Margaret and her brother Edward were debarred from the throne by their father’s attainder, was offered the crown and became king as Richard III. He was married to Anne Neville, younger sister to Margaret’s mother Isabel.

Richard III sent the children to Sheriff Hutton Castle in Yorkshire. He was defeated and killed in 1485 at the Battle of Bosworth by Henry Tudor, who succeeded him as Henry VII. The new king married Margaret’s cousin Elizabeth of York, Edward IV’s daughter, and Margaret and her brother were taken into their care. Soon young Edward, a potential York claimant to the throne, was moved to the Tower of London. 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.

Shortly thereafter, probably in November 1487, Henry VII gave Margaret in marriage to his cousin, Sir Richard Pole, whose mother was half-sister of the king’s mother, Margaret Beaufort. ^[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.

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. When Arthur married Catherine of Aragon, Margaret became one of her ladies-in-waiting, but her entourage was dissolved when the teenaged Arthur died in 1502. Margaret as a child

When her husband died in 1505, Margaret became a widow with five children, a limited amount of land inherited from her husband, no other income and no prospects. Henry VII paid for Richard’s funeral. To ease the situation, Margaret devoted her third son Reginald Pole to the Church, where he was to have an eventful career as a papal Legate and later Archbishop of Canterbury. He was to resent her abandonment of him bitterly in later life. ^[4] Additionally, Margaret, without adequate means to support herself and her children, was forced to live at Syon Abbey among Bridgettine nuns after her husband’s death. ^[6] She was to remain there until she returned to favour at the ascension of Henry VIII in 1509.

Countess of Salisbury

When Henry VIII came to the throne in 1509, he married Catherine of Aragon himself. Margaret was again appointed one of her ladies-in-waiting. In 1512, Parliament restored to her some of her brother’s lands of the earldom of Salisbury (only), for which she paid 5000 marks (£2666.13s.4d). Henry VII had controlled them, first during her brother’s minority and then during his imprisonment, and had confiscated them after his trial. The same Act also restored to Margaret the Earldom of Salisbury. ^[7] The Warwick and Spencer [Despencer] lands remained crown property. ^[8]

As Countess of Salisbury, Margaret managed her lands well, and by 1538, she was the fifth richest peer in England. She was a patron of the new learning, like many Renaissance nobles; Gentian Hervet translated Erasmus‘ de immensa misericordia Dei (The Great Mercy of God) into English for her. Her first son, Henry Pole, was created Baron Montagu, another of the Neville titles; he spoke for the family in the House of Lords. Her second son, Arthur Pole, had a generally successful career as a courtier, becoming one of the six Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber.

Arthur 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. He died young about 1526, having married the heir of Roger Lewknor; the Countess and her son Henry pressed Arthur’s widow to a vow of perpetual chastity to preserve her inheritance for her Pole children. Margaret’s daughter Ursula married the Duke of Buckingham’s son, Henry Stafford, but after the Duke’s fall, the couple was given only fragments of his estates.

Margaret’s third son, Reginald Pole, studied abroad in Padua; he was dean in Exeter and Wimborne Minster, Dorset as well as canon in York. He had several other livings, although he had not been ordained a priest. He represented Henry VIII in Paris in 1529, persuading the theologians of the Sorbonne to support Henry’s divorce from Catherine of Aragon. ^[9] Her youngest son Geoffrey Pole married well, to Constance, daughter of Edmund Pakenham, and inherited the estate of Lordington in Sussex.

Margaret’s own favour at Court varied. She had a dispute over land with Henry VIII in 1518; he awarded the contested lands to the Dukedom of Somerset, which had been held by his Beaufort great-grandfather—and were now in the possession of the Crown. In 1520, Margaret was appointed governess to Henry’s daughter Mary; the next year, when her sons were mixed up with Buckingham, she was removed, but she was restored by 1525.

When Mary was declared a bastard in 1533, Margaret refused to give Mary’s gold plate and jewels back to Henry. Mary’s household was broken up at the end of the year, and Margaret asked to serve Mary at her own cost, but was not permitted. The Imperial Ambassador Eustace Chapuys suggested two years later that Mary be handed over to Margaret, but Henry refused, calling her “a fool, of no experience”.

Fall

In 1531, Reginald Pole warned of the dangers of the Boleyn marriage. He returned to Padua in 1532, and received a last English benefice in December of that year. Chapuys suggested to Emperor Charles V that Reginald marry Mary and combine their dynastic claims. Chapuys also communicated with Reginald through his brother Geoffrey. Reginald replied to books Henry sent him with his own pamphlet, pro ecclesiasticae unitatis defensione, or de unitate, which denied Henry’s position on the marriage of a brother’s wife and denied the royal supremacy. Reginald also urged the princes of Europe to depose Henry immediately. Henry wrote to Margaret, who in turn wrote to her son a letter reproving him for his “folly”. ^[10] In May 1536, Reginald finally and definitively broke with the king. After Henry’s second wife Anne Boleyn was arrested, and eventually executed, Margaret was permitted to return to Court, albeit briefly. ^[11]

In 1537, Reginald (still not ordained) was created a Cardinal. Pope Paul III put him in charge of organising assistance for the Pilgrimage of Grace (and related movements), an effort to organise a march on London to install a conservative Catholic government instead of Henry’s increasingly Protestant-leaning one. Neither Francis I of France nor the Emperor supported this effort, and the English government tried to have him assassinated. In 1539, Reginald was sent to the Emperor to organise an embargo against England—the sort of countermeasure he had himself warned Henry was possible. ^[12]

As part of the investigations into the so-called Exeter Conspiracy, Geoffrey Pole was arrested in August 1538; he had been corresponding with Reginald, and the investigation of Henry Courtenay, Marquess of Exeter (Henry VIII’s first cousin and Geoffrey’s second cousin) had turned up his name. Geoffrey had appealed to Thomas Cromwell, who had him arrested and interrogated. Under interrogation, Geoffrey said that his eldest brother, Lord Montagu, and the Marquess had been parties to his correspondence with Reginald. Montagu, Exeter, and Margaret were arrested in November 1538.

In January 1539, Geoffrey was pardoned, but Margaret’s son Henry, Baron Montagu (and cousin Exeter) were later executed for treason after trial. In May 1539, Henry, Margaret, Exeter and others were attainted, as Margaret’s father had been. This conviction meant they lost their titles and their lands—mostly in the South of England, conveniently located to assist any invasion.

As part of the evidence for the bill of attainder, Cromwell produced a tunic bearing the Five Wounds of Christ, symbolising Margaret’s support for Catholicism and the rule of her son Reginald and the king’s Catholic daughter Mary. The supposed discovery, six months after her house and effects were searched at her arrest, is likely to have been a fabrication. She was sentenced to death, and could be executed at the king’s will.

Margaret Pole, as she now was styled, was held in the Tower of London for two and a half years. She, her grandson Henry (son of her own son Henry), and Exeter’s son were held together and supported by the king. She was attended by servants and received an extensive grant of clothing in March 1541. In 1540, Cromwell himself fell from favour and was attainted and executed.

Execution

Blessed Margaret Pole
Martyrdom of Blessed Margaret Pole by William Andrews, circa 1826.
Martyr
Venerated in	Catholic Church
Beatified	29 December 1886, Saint Peter’s Basilica, Papal State by Pope Leo XIII
Major shrine	Church of Saint Peter ad Vincula, Tower Hamlets, London, United Kingdom
Feast	28 May (ordinarily, her feast day would coincide with the day of her martyrdom, however 27 May was already in use as the Feast of Saint Augustine of Canterbury)
Attributes	Martyr’s palm Rosary

The following poem was found carved on the wall of her cell:

For traitors on the block should die;
I am no traitor, no, not I!
My faithfulness stands fast and so,
Towards the block I shall not go!
Nor make one step, as you shall see;
Christ in Thy Mercy, save Thou me!^[13][14]

On the morning of 27 May 1541, Margaret was told she was to die within the hour. She answered that no crime had been imputed to her. Nevertheless, she was taken from her cell to the place within the precincts of the Tower of London where a low wooden block had been prepared instead of the customary scaffold. ^[5] As she was of noble birth, she was not executed before the populace.

Two written reports survive of her execution, both being eyewitnesses: by Marillac, the French ambassador; and by Chapuys, ambassador to the Holy Roman Emperor. Their accounts differ slightly, with Marillac’s report, dispatched two days afterwards, recording that the execution took place in a corner of the Tower with so few people present that in the evening news of her execution was doubted. Chapuys wrote two weeks after the execution that 150 witnesses had been present including the Lord Mayor of London.

Chapuys wrote that, “at first, when the sentence of death was made known to her, she found the thing very strange, not knowing of what crime she was accused, nor how she had been sentenced” and that, because the main executioner^[15] had been sent north to deal with rebels, the execution was performed by “a wretched and blundering youth who literally hacked her head and shoulders to pieces in the most pitiful manner”.

A third, apocryphal account, described in Burke’s Peerage as an invention to explain the appalling circumstances of her death, states that Margaret refused to lay her head on the block, declaiming, “So should traitors do, and I am none”; according to the account, she turned her head “every which way”, instructing the executioner that, if he wanted her head, he should take it as he could. ^[16]^[17]^[18]^[19]^[20] Margaret was buried in the chapel of St. Peter ad Vincula within the Tower of London. ^[21] Her remains were uncovered when the chapel was renovated in 1876. ^[22]^[23]

Her son, Reginald Pole, said that he would “never fear to call himself the son of a martyr”. She was later regarded by Catholics as such and was beatified on 29 December 1886 by Pope Leo XIII. ^[24] She is commemorated in the dedication of the Church of Our Lady Queen of Peace & Blessed Margaret Pole in Southbourne, Bournemouth. ^[25]

Family

When not at Court, Margaret lived chiefly at Warblington Castle in Hampshire and Bisham Manor in Berkshire. ^[26] 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 (also known as Joan of Arundel); beheaded by order of Henry VIII. A great-grandson of Henry Pole was Sir John Bourchier, a regicide of King 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.
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 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.

Cultural Depictions[edit]

Margaret appears in William Shakespeare‘s 16th century play Richard III as the young daughter of the murdered Duke of Clarence.
The character of Lady Salisbury in the Showtime series The Tudors, played by Kate O’Toole in 2007 and 2009, is loosely based on Margaret Pole.
Janet Henfrey portrays Margaret in Episode 4 (“The Devil’s Spit”) of Wolf Hall, the 2015 BBC adaptation of Hilary Mantel‘s novels Wolf Hall (2009) and Bring Up the Bodies (2012).
Margaret is the main character of Philippa Gregory‘s 2014 novel The King’s Curse. ^[27] She also appears in Gregory’s novels The Kingmaker’s Daughter (2012) and The White Princess (2013).
Margaret was portrayed by Rebecca Benson in the television adaptation of The White Princess^[28] and by Laura Carmichael in the miniseries The Spanish Princess, a sequel to The White Princess. ^[29]
Margaret is the main character of Samantha Wilcoxson’s 2016 novel, Faithful Traitor.

Notes[edit]

^ “Unknown woman, formerly known as Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury — National Portrait Gallery”. www.npg.org.uk.
^ ODNB; the other was Anne Boleyn, Marquess of Pembroke. The ODNB does not qualify the assertion, but is discussing sixteenth-century usage; sources which apply modern law retroactively will consider some women peeresses in their own right when their husbands sat in Parliament with their father’s style and precedence.
^ DWYER, J. G. “Pole, Margaret Plantagenet, Bl.” New Catholic Encyclopedia. 2nd ed. Vol. 11. Detroit: Gale, 2003. pp. 455–56.
^ Jump up to:^a ^b ODNB.
^ Jump up to:^a ^b One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). “Blessed Margaret Pole“. Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
^ Powell, Sue (1 November 2005). “Margaret Pole and Syon abbey”. Historical Research. 78 (202): 563–567. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2281.2005.00254.x.
^ ODNB, which argues that the restoration was a tacit admission of her brother’s innocence; however, lands and titles had been restored to the heirs of guilty peers during the previous century.
^ TNA, minsters’ accounts, SC6/HENVIII.
^ ODNB, Reginald Pole
^ ODNB, “Reginald Pole”; “Geoffrey Pole”. Pole and his hagiographers gave several later accounts of Pole’s activities after Henry met Anne Boleyn. These are not consistent; and if—as he claimed at one point—Pole 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.
^ ODNB; quotation as given there.
^ ODNB, Reginald Pole.
^ “The Execution of Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury”. The Anne Boleyn Files. 27 May 2010. Retrieved 12 June 2011.
^ “The Tower of London”. The Travelling Historian. Retrieved 12 June 2011.
^ This was not, as some say, Cratwell, who had himself been executed three years earlier
^ Pierce 1996, pp. 314–315
^ The Complete Peerage, v. XII p. II, p. 393
^ “Margaret Pole”. Tudor History. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
^ “1541: Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury”. Executed Today. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
^ “Block and Axe”. Royal Armouries. Archived from the original on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
^ Profile of Margaret, Lady Salisbury, Regina (online)
^ “Pole, Margaret, suo jure countess of Salisbury (1473–1541), noblewoman”. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography(online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/22451. Retrieved 18 November 2020.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ Bell, Doyne C. (1877). Notices of the Historic Persons Buried in the Chapel of St. Peter ad Vincula in the Tower of London. London: John Murray, Albemarle Street. p. 24.
^ Camm, Bede, Lives of the English martyrs declared blessed by Pope Leo XIII in 1886 and 1895 (Burns and Oates Limited, 1904), ix.
^ http://www.avonstour.co.uk/parishes/olqp/
^ Ford, David Nash (2010). “Margaret Plantagenet, Lady Pole & Countess of Salisbury (1473–1541)”. Royal Berkshire History. Nash Ford Publishing. Retrieved 16 June 2011.
^ “The King’s Curse“. Publishers Weekly. 21 July 2014. Retrieved 8 October 2014.
^ Bradley, Laura (13 June 2016). “Two More Game of ThronesActors Just Joined Starz’s The White Queen Follow-Up”. Vanity Fair. Retrieved 14 June 2016.
^ Petski, Denise (17 May 2018). “The Spanish Princess: Charlotte Hope To Star In The White Princess. Follow-Up On Starz”. Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 1 June 2018.

Sources[edit]

Dwyer, J.G. “Pole, Margaret Plantagenet, Bl.” at New Catholic Encyclopedia. 2nd ed. Vol. 11. Detroit: Gale, 2003. pp. 455–456. Cited as New Catholic Encyclopedia.
Mayer, T.F. Pole, Reginald (1500–1558), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008, cited as ODNB, Reginald Pole.
Pierce, Hazel (1996), The life, career and political significance of Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury 1473-1541, Bangor University
Pierce, Hazel. “Pole, Margaret, suo jure countess of Salisbury (1473–1541)”. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/22451. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.); cited as ODNB .
Bernard, George W. (2005). The king’s reformation: Henry VIII and the remaking of the English church. Yale University Press.

Further reading[edit]

Pierce, Hazel (2003). Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, 1473–1541: Loyalty, Lineage and Leadership, University of Wales Press, ISBN 0-7083-1783-9

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