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Perkin Warbeck's personal history is fraught with many unreliable and varying statements. [3] Warbeck said that he was Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York, the younger son of King Edward IV, who had disappeared mysteriously along with his brother Edward V after Richard, Duke of Gloucester, usurped the throne as King Richard III following the elder Edward's death in 1483.
* The Perkin Warbeck Conspiracy 1491-1499 by Ian Arthurson, Stroud 1994 * Richard of England by Diana Kleyn, reprint 2013 . Ann Wroe is an editor with a leading British publication. She is the author of several books including Pontius Pilate, and Perkin: A Story of Deception, Jonathan Cape 2003 (hbk), Vintage 2004 (pbk)
Feb 13, 2020 · One of the most famous advocates of the theory that Perkin Warbeck genuinely was the younger prince is historical novelist Philippa Gregory. In her book, The White Queen, the princes’ mother, Elizabeth Woodville, sends the real Prince Richard to Flanders to be raised in secret under an assumed name. Meanwhile a page boy posing as Richard is ...
Perkin Warbeck (born 1474?, Tournai, Flanders [now in Belgium]—died Nov. 23, 1499, London, Eng.) 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 .
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- 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.
The story of Richard of England (aka ‘Perkin Warbeck’), as put out by Henry VII, became widely spread and accepted by posterity, owing to his misfortune of falling into the Tudor king’s power. Interrogated, brutalised and probably tortured, the young challenger who claimed the crown as the brother of Edward V was forced to sign a confession under duress. of which the original no longer ...
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Perkin Warbeck (c. 1474-1499) also claimed to be Prince Richard. This pretender to the throne was taken more seriously, insofar as a number of powerful figures acknowledged Warbeck to be Richard, including Margaret of York and James IV of Scotland. This throws up an intriguing possibility.
