Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury

Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury

Margaret Plantagenet, Countess of Salisbury (14 August 1473 – 27 May 1541), also called Margaret Pole, as a result of her marriage to Sir Richard Pole, was the only surviving daughter of George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, a brother of Kings Edward IV and Richard III (all sons of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York), by his wife Isabel Neville. Margaret was one of just two women in 16th-century England to be a peeress in her own right (suo jure) without a husband in the House of Lords. As 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 3,074,223 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury is the 2,971st most popular politician (up from 4,468th in 2019), the 667th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 999th in 2019) and the 122nd most popular British Politician.