Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury
Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, was an English peeress. She was executed in 1541 at the command of Henry VIII. Pope Leo XIII beatified her as a martyr for the Catholic Church on 29 December 1886. Margaret was one of two women in 16th-century England to be a peeress in her own right with no titled husband.
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Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, was an English peeress. She was the daughter of George, Duke of Clarence, the niece of kings Edward IV and Richard III. 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. Pope Leo XIII beatified her as a martyr for the Catholic Church on 29 December 1886. Margaret was one of two women in 16th-century England to be a peeress in her own right with no titled husband. Margaret would have had a claim to the Earldom of Warwick, but the earldom was forfeited on the attainder of her brother Edward. She had five children, a limited amount of land inherited from her husband, no other income and no prospects. Margaret managed her lands well, and by 1538 she was the fifth richest peer in England, like the new learning patron of the Renaissance, Lady Catherine of Aragon. She remained a patron until the death of her son Arthur, Prince of Wales, in 1509. 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. In 1512, Parliament restored to her some of the lands her brother of the earls of Warwick had confiscated during his minority, and then during his imprisonment and imprisonment.
The same Act also restored to Margaret the Earldoms of Warwick and Spencer, which she held until her death in 1538. Margaret died in 1543, aged 80, and was buried in St Paul’s Cathedral. She is buried in the church of St Peter and St Paul in London, next to her brother, Richard Pole, 1st Earl of Warwick. Margaret’s last will and testament can be found in the Library of St Paul and St James’ Palace, London, and can be read online at: http://www.stpaulandstlondon.org.uk/Margaret-Pole-Last-Will-and-Widow-To-Be-Remembered-by-Pope-Leo-XVII-St-Paul-XII-St. Paul-XI-St.-James-Prayer-1.html. Margaret’s last will, and Testament, can be seen in the library of St. Paul and the St. James’ Palace in London at: ‘The Life of Margaret Pole and St. Peter and Saint-James’S Palace in St. Germain, London.’ Margaret was also buried at Syon Abbey among Bridgettine nuns in Somerset, where she had lived with her husband since her marriage to Richard Pole in 1505. She died on December 31, 1541.
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