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Margaret Pole’s execution was very botched #history #royal #royalty #viral #shorts #tudor #thetudors

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November 25, 2025
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Margaret Pole’s execution was very botched #history #royal #royalty #viral #shorts #tudor #thetudors



Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, a figure of high noble birth and the last surviving member of the Plantagenet dynasty with a strong claim to the throne, met a brutal end under the command of her cousin’s son, King Henry VIII, in 1541.

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Her downfall was primarily linked to the treasonable actions of her son, Cardinal Reginald Pole, a staunch Catholic who publicly and fiercely denounced Henry VIII’s break with Rome and his religious policies. Though Margaret herself was an elderly woman in her late sixties and had been a respected godmother and former governess to Princess Mary (Henry VIII’s daughter), her Plantagenet blood and her son’s defiance made her a constant, dangerous symbol of opposition in the King’s eyes, especially amidst fears of rebellion.

She was arrested in 1538 and later condemned for treason via a Bill of Attainder—meaning she was executed without a trial—with the flimsiest of evidence, including an embroidered tunic bearing the Five Wounds of Christ, a symbol of the Northern rebellions. After over two years of imprisonment in the Tower of London, the frail 67-year-old was executed privately on May 27, 1541.

The execution itself was horrific and notoriously botched. Contemporary accounts suggest the executioner was inexperienced, resulting in a gruesome scene where he either missed her neck entirely with the first blow, hacking at her shoulder, or that she ran from the block and was subsequently hewn down. It reportedly took as many as eleven blows to finally sever her head, confirming her fate as a victim of Henry VIII’s tyrannical paranoia. In 1886, Pope Leo XIII beatified her as a Catholic martyr.

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