the execution. It states that Margaret refused to lay her head on the block, declaiming, "So should traitors do, and I am none". According to the account, she turned her head "every which way", instructing the executioner that, if he wanted her head, he should take it as he could. Margaret was buried in the chapel of St Peter ad Vincula within the Tower of London. Her remains were later uncovered when the chapel was renovated in 1876. Descendants When not at Court, Margaret lived chiefly at Warblington Castle in Hampshire and Bisham Manor in Berkshire. She and her husband were parents to five children: Henry Pole, 1st Baron Montagu (c. 14929 January 1539), notable as one of the peers in the trial of Anne Boleyn; married Jane Neville, daughter of George Nevill, 5th Baron Bergavenny, and Joan Fitzalan, with whom he had four children; beheaded by order of Henry VIII. A great-grandson of Henry Pole was Sir John Bourchier, one of the regicides of Charles I of England, who was a great-great-grandnephew of Henry VIII. Arthur Pole (before 1499before 1532), Lord of the Manor of Broadhurst in Sussex; married Jane Lewkenor, daughter of Sir Roger Lewkenor and the former Eleanor Tuchet, herself daughter of the 6th Baron Audley and the former Anne Echingham. They had four children. Reginald Pole (c. 150017 November 1558), cardinal, papal legate in various regions, including England, and the last Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury. Geoffrey Pole (c. 1501–1558), Lord of the Manor of Lordington in Sussex, suspected of treason by King Henry VIII and accused of conspiring with Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor; lived in exile in Europe; married Constance Pakenham, granddaughter and heir of Sir John Pakenham. John Pakenham was an ancestor to Sir Edward Pakenham, brother-in-law to the Duke of Wellington. Ursula Pole (c. 150412 August 1570), married Henry Stafford, 1st Baron Stafford, and had some fourteen children. Legacy Her son, Reginald Pole, said that he would "never fear to call himself the son of a martyr". She was later regarded by Catholics as such and was beatified on 29 December 1886 by Pope Leo XIII. She is commemorated in the dedication of the Church of Our Lady Queen of Peace & Blessed Margaret Pole in Southbourne, Bournemouth. There are panel paintings of Pole in the following churches: English Martyrs Church, Preston (she is on the right.) St Joseph's Church in Sale, Cheshire