Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury

Margaret Pole (née Plantagenet), 8th Countess of Salisbury (14 August 1473 – 27 May 1541) was an English peeress, the daughter of the 1st Duke of Clarence, a brother of King Edward IV and King Richard III. She was the last legitimate member of the Plantagenet dynasty, executed in 1541 at the command of King Henry VIII, who was her cousin's son. She is a Catholic Martyr. Born Lady Margaret Plantagenet at Farleigh Hungerford Castle in Somerset, she... more

Margaret Pole (née Plantagenet), 8th Countess of Salisbury (14 August 1473 – 27 May 1541) was an English peeress, the daughter of the 1st Duke of Clarence, a brother of King Edward IV and King Richard III. She was the last legitimate member of the Plantagenet dynasty, executed in 1541 at the command of King Henry VIII, who was her cousin's son. She is a Catholic Martyr. Born Lady Margaret Plantagenet at Farleigh Hungerford Castle in Somerset, she was the daughter of the 1st Duke of Clarence and the former Lady Isabella Neville, the elder daughter of the jure uxoris 16th Earl of Warwick and suo jure 6th Earl of Salisbury ("Warwick the Kingmaker") and the suo jure 16th Countess of Warwick. Margaret's mother died when she was three, and her father was executed when she was four. Her brother Edward was allowed to succeed as 17th Earl of Warwick and 7th Earl of Salisbury, but, as the last male representative of the Yorkist line, was seen as a danger to the new Tudor dynasty and was... less