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Two written eyewitness reports survived her execution: one by Marillac, the French ambassador, and the other by Chapuys, ambassador to the Holy Roman Emperor. The accounts differ slightly; Marillac's report, dispatched two days afterward, recorded that the execution took place in the corner of the Tower with so few people present that, in the ...
As a woman of noble birth, Margaret Pole was given a private execution. There are two accounts of her execution – One says that she was executed by an inexperienced axeman who missed her neck the first time, gashing her shoulder, and that it took a further ten blows to finish her off.
May 27, 2020 · On this day in Tudor history, 27th May 1541, the frail sixty-seven-year-old Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, was executed at the Tower of London. The former governess of Princess Mary had an awful end because the usual executioner was away from London, and one account has led to stories of her tormented ghost reliving her final moments at ...
Dec 22, 2021 · Margaret, on May 27th, 1541, was told that she would be dead really soon. She wasn’t even warned a day before her execution the way Mary, Queen of Scots was, she was just told a few hours before her execution that she was going to die.
This page was created on February 27, 2023. The execution of Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, mother of Cardinal Reginald Pole, the Pope's legate during King Henry VIII's 'Great Matter'. She was, for a time, governess to the Princess Mary. Henry VIII had her unjustly executed.
This week's #MondayMartyr is Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, who was beatified in 1886 by Pope Leo XIII as a Catholic martyr. She was executed in 1541 in what was a truly awful botched execution, and for a crime she did not commit...
The Countess of Salisbury was taken to East Smithfield early in the morning of 28th May, 1541, and there beheaded on a low block or log in the presence of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and a few other spectators.
