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Hace 5 días · Perkin Warbeck, born around 1474, first emerged as a pretender in 1491, claiming to be Richard, Duke of York, the younger of the Princes in the Tower. According to Warbeck‘s story, he had been spared from death and smuggled abroad, only revealing his true identity years later.
Had Elizabeth of York acknowledged Perkin Warbeck as her brother, it would have undermined the legitimacy of the Tudors and jeopardised her children’s futures. It’s unknown if the pretenders to the throne had a significant impact on Elizabeth of York and Henry VII’s marriage.
Hace 1 día · London, Routledge, 2007, ISBN: 9780415266208; 336pp.; Price: £45.00. A new book on Henry VII is a major event. The last full-length study of the king and his reign, by S. B. Chrimes, was written in 1972, in a very different historiographical world. At that time, the explosion of interest in later-medieval history was still in its infancy, and ...
Hace 4 días · The apparent aim of the conspirators of 1494 was to replace Henry with the Flemish pretender Perkin Warbeck, posing as Richard, duke of York, Edward IV's younger son. Henry VII's spies infiltrated the ranks of the conspirators at an early stage and the principal men involved were arrested at the beginning of 1495.
Hace 2 días · In 1491, Perkin Warbeck, a young man hired in the service of a Breton merchant, [citation needed] was regarded favourably as an inheritor of the Yorkist claim to the throne by the pro-York citizens of Cork in Ireland, who allegedly decided to put Warbeck forth as an impostor Richard of Shrewsbury.
Hace 1 día · In 1497, Perkin Warbeck, pretending to the crown, and asserting himself to be (as some ingenious writers of the present day have supposed that he really was) Richard Duke of York, landed in Cornwall: having assembled an army of the disaffected, he marched to Exeter at the head of 6000 men, and commenced a vigorous siege, but was ...
Hace 2 días · Lastly, her third daughter, Margaret, married Charles, Duke of Burgundy. This lady's persevering hostility to Henry VII., and open support of the claims of Perkin Warbeck, believing him to be the last male heir of the House of Plantagenet, have rendered her name conspicuous in history." THE "THREE CRANES," THAMES STREET. (See page 20.)
