caption father death_date mother birth_place title birth_date spouse issue image article_title name
portrait margaret pole , 8th countess of salisbury of unknown sitter , traditionally thought to be george plantagenet , 1st duke of clarence 27 may 1541 isabel neville farleigh hungerford castle , somerset , england margaret , countess of salisbury 14 august 1473 sir richard pole henry cardinal sir geoffrey pole sir arthur pole ursula pole pole , 1st baron montagu reginald pole , unknown countess of salisbury from npg retouched.jpg woman , formerly known as margaret pole , margaret pole , countess of salisbury
 lady margaret pole
margaret pole , countess of salisbury

blessed margaret pole , countess of salisbury , born margaret of york & clarence -lrb- 14 august 1473 -- 27 may 1541 -rrb- , was an english peeress .
she was the daughter of george , duke of clarence , who was the brother of king edward iv and king richard iii .
she was one of two women in sixteenth-century england to be a peeress in her own right with no titled husband .
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 king henry viii , who was the son of her cousin elizabeth of york .
pope leo xiii beatified her as a martyr for the catholic church on 29 december 1886 .
