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Blessed Margaret Pole - May 28 Blessed Margaret Pole lso known as. Margaret Plantaganet Memorial 28 May Profile Daughter of the Duke of Clarence. Niece of King Edward IV and King Richard III of England …More
Blessed Margaret Pole - May 28

Blessed Margaret Pole
lso known as.
Margaret Plantaganet
Memorial

28 May

Profile

Daughter of the Duke of Clarence. Niece of King Edward IV and King Richard III of England. Married Sir Richard Pole in 1491. Mother of five, one of whom became a cardinal. Widow. Unofficial ward of King Henry VIII, who made her Countess of Salisbury and governess to Princess Mary, daughter of Henry VIII.

When she opposed Henry‘s plan to marry Ann Boleyn, she was driven from court and received the king‘s disfavor. When her son, Cardinal Reginald Pole, wrote against Henry‘s presumptions to spiritual supremacy, the king decided to crush the family. Two of Margaret’s sons were executed in 1538 for the crime of being the brothers of Reginald. The elderly Margaret was arrested soon after, falsley charged with plotting revolution; in 1539 she was sent to the Tower of London where she spent her remaining two years. In 1541, at the outbreak of an actual uprising, Margaret was summarily executed with trial as a precaution. Martyr.

Born

14 August 1473 in Somerset, Wilshire, England as Margaret Plantaganet
Died

beheaded 28 May 1541 on Tower Hill, London, England
buried at Saint Peter ad Vincula, Tower of London
Beatified

29 December 1886 by Pope Leo XIII (cultus confirmation)
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