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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, succeeded to the throne as King Richard III following the death of King Edward IV, his eldest brother, in ...
Title page from an 1857 edition of Perkin Warbeck. The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck: A Romance is an 1830 historical novel by Mary Shelley about the life of Perkin Warbeck.The book takes a Yorkist point of view and proceeds from the conceit that Perkin Warbeck died in childhood and the supposed impostor was indeed Richard of Shrewsbury.
Both Sir Robert Clifford and his father-in-law, William Barley, were supporters of the pretender to the Crown, Perkin Warbeck. [4] [7] [8] Sir Thomas Clifford. Elizabeth Clifford, who married firstly, Sir William Plumpton of Knaresborough, Yorkshire, [9] slain at the Battle of Towton, and secondly, John Hamerton. [4] [10]
Next was Sir Robert Clifford, who eventually involved himself in the Perkin Warbeck plot against Henry VII. John Clifford's youngest brother was Sir Thomas Clifford, and his nearest sister was Elizabeth. She married firstly, Sir William Plumpton (1435–1461), [9] who was probably slain at the Battle of Towton in 1461, [10] and secondly, John ...
Commoner Perkin Warbeck, pretender to Henry's throne, finds he's losing support throughout Europe. 11: 16 Mar. 1972: The Strange Shapes of Reality: Although Perkin Warbeck enjoys only house arrest for his treason through Henry's mercy, he continues to plot against the King. 12: 23 Mar. 1972: The Fledgling
In February 1495 Sir William Stanley (who had won the Battle of Bosworth for the Tudor dynasty) was executed for supporting the claim to the throne of the pretender Perkin Warbeck, largely on the evidence of Sir Robert Clifford, who named Debenham as one of Stanley's co-conspirators. [12] Debenham was condemned to death for treason.
The Second Cornish uprising occurred in September 1497 when the pretender to the throne Perkin Warbeck landed at Whitesand Bay, near Land's End, on 7 September with just 120 men in two ships. [ 1 ] Warbeck had seen the potential of the Cornish unrest in the First Cornish rebellion of 1497 even though the Cornish had been defeated at the Battle ...
Articles relating to Perkin Warbeck (c. 1474 – 23 November 1499), pretender to the English throne.Warbeck claimed 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".