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Lady Catherine Gordon. Perkin Warbeck (c. 1474 – 23 November 1499) was a pretender to the English throne claiming to be Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York, who was the second son of Edward IV and one of the so-called "Princes in the Tower". Richard, were he alive, would have been the rightful claimant to the throne, assuming that his elder ...
- Tristan Hughes
- He was the second of two pretenders in Henry VII’s reign. Henry VII had already been challenged by a previous pretender in 1487: Lambert Simnel, who claimed to be Edward Plantagenet.
- Warbeck claimed to be Richard, Duke of York. Richard was one of the nephews of Richard III and one of the two ‘Princes in the Tower’ who had mysteriously disappeared during the previous decade.
- His main supporter was Margaret, Duchess of Burgundy. Margaret was the sister of the late Edward IV and supported Warbeck’s claim to be Richard Duke of York, her nephew.
- Warbeck’s army attempted to land in England on 3 July 1495… Supported by 1,500 men – many of whom were battle-hardened continental mercenaries – Warbeck had chosen to land his army at the port town of Deal in Kent.
Accessed 12 November 2024. Perkin Warbeck was an impostor and pretender to the throne of the first Tudor king of England, Henry VII. Vain, foolish, and incompetent, he was used by Henry’s Yorkist enemies in England and on the European continent in an unsuccessful plot to threaten the new Tudor dynasty. The son of a local.
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Jan 17, 2011 · Was Perkin Warbeck really Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York? Or was he a pretender to the English Throne and an impostor? Uncovering the Mystery of Perkin Warbeck. In 1492, the news of the survival of the younger prince in the Tower thundered across Europe, setting royal houses ablaze with intrigue and rocking the fledgling Tudor dynasty.
Dec 24, 2021 · Henry was able to unmask the pretender as an imposter, and the rebellion foundered. Henry had survived the first major rebellion against his throne. But the next pretender, a thorn in Henry’s side for much of the next decade, was a far more serious opponent. Perkin Warbeck. Perkin Warbeck claimed himself as the direct heir of King Edward IV.
- Bipin Dimri
Dec 2, 2012 · As Perkin Warbeck he is often regarded by historians as a footnote of little consequence to the glorious Tudor reign, and this is certainly the image that the Tudors liked to create. As we shall see, whatever Henry’s efforts at portraying the affair, this young man had him seriously worried and was widely accepted as Richard of York.
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Circa 1474 - 23 November 1499. Perkin Warbeck was the second of the Yorkist Pretenders to lay claim to the throne during the reign of King Henry VII, the founder of the Tudor dynasty. A youth named Lambert Simnel had previously raised a rebellion claiming to be Edward, Earl of Warwick, the son of George, Duke of Clarence and later posing as ...
