Sir Richard Pole

Sir Richard Pole
Arms of Sir Richard Pole, KG
Born	1462
Died	1505
Spouse(s)	Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury
Children	Henry Pole, 1st Baron Montagu Reginald Pole Sir Geoffrey Pole of Lordington Sir Arthur Pole of Broadhurst Ursula Pole
Parent(s)	Sir Geoffrey Pole of Worrell and of Wythurn Edith St John

Sir Richard Pole, KG (1462 - before 18 December 1505) was a Welshman who was a supporter and close relation of King Henry VII. He was created a Knight of the Garter and was married to Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury, a member of the Plantagenet dynasty: a marriage which reinforced the Tudor alliance between the houses of Lancaster and York.

A descendant of an ancient Welsh family, Sir Richard was a landed gentleman of Buckinghamshire, the son of Geoffrey Pole Esquire of Worrell, Cheshire, and of Wythurn in Medmenham, Buckinghamshire (1431 - 1474 / 4 January 1479, interred in Bisham Abbey). His mother was Edith St John, daughter of Sir Oliver St John of Bletso, Bedfordshire (d. 1437) and the half-sister of Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII. They shared the same mother, Margaret Beauchamp of Bletso, who had married three times; this made Richard a first cousin of the half blood to Henry VII. Sir Richard was thus first cousin of Alice St John, wife of Henry Parker, 10th Baron Morley and mother of Jane Parker, wife of George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford.