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Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury

1473 - 1541

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Margaret Plantagenet, Countess of Salisbury (14 August 1473 – 27 May 1541), was the only surviving daughter of George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, a brother of Kings Edward IV and Richard III, by his wife Isabel Neville. As a result of her marriage to Richard Pole, she was also known as Margaret Pole. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury has received more than 3,661,109 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury is the 2,933rd most popular politician (up from 4,466th in 2019), the 667th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 999th in 2019) and the 120th most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury ranks 2,933 out of 15,577Before her are Emperor Yuan of Han, Zoran Đinđić, Herbert Backe, Canute I of Sweden, David Dacko, and Christopher I of Denmark. After her are Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV, Shulgi, Agnes of Merania, Emilio Aguinaldo, Idriss Déby, and Henri, Prince of Condé.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1473, Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury ranks 6Before her are Nicolaus Copernicus, Oruç Reis, James IV of Scotland, Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York, and Thomas Wolsey. After her are Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales, Georg von Frundsberg, John Corvinus, Cecilia Gallerani, Henry IV, Duke of Saxony, and Hans Burgkmair. Among people deceased in 1541, Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury ranks 6Before her are Paracelsus, Francisco Pizarro, Margaret Tudor, Johann Georg Faust, and Pedro de Alvarado. After her are Francysk Skaryna, Gazi Husrev-beg, Henry IV, Duke of Saxony, Jean Clouet, Bernard van Orley, and Thomas Culpeper.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury ranks 667 out of 7,765Before her are Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (1864), E. H. Carr (1892), William Pitt the Younger (1759), Arthur Harden (1865), Philip Pullman (1946), and Oliver Heaviside (1850). After her are Robert Carlyle (1961), John Gurdon (1933), William Ewart Gladstone (1809), Macbeth, King of Scotland (1005), Stirling Moss (1929), and Thomas Chippendale (1718).

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