Margaret Plantagenet, Countess of Salisbury (1473 – ), is 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 is also known as Margaret Pole.
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Week 14: Devil's Spit / A Painter’s Eye
She was caught up in the Elizabeth Barton affair. Now she comes to Cromwell.
He has made her come to him, the countess, and now she looks at him from beneath heavy lids, she looks at him down her long Plantagenet nose, and her greeting, ice-bright, flies out into the room. ‘Cromwell.’ Just that.
Cromwell explains plainly that he has many spies in the households of the Poles and Courtenays. He does not say that her own son Geoffrey is in his pay. He makes it clear that she is at liberty, and not in the Tower with Elizabeth Barton, because of his “forbearance.” Her family owes Cromwell.