When he arrived he found no allies and was being pursued by the Earl of Kildare. In 1497, after departing Scotland, Warbeck crossed to Ireland. Together they planned to invade England in hopes of claiming the English throne as Richard IV. Soon after the wedding Falkland Palace was used as Warbeck’s base. Surely James IV believed he was the rightful Duke of York and king of England, why else would he marry his cousin to Warbeck. James IV of ScotlandĪt the beginning of 1496, James IV of Scotland had arranged and celebrated the nuptials of Warbeck and his cousin, Lady Katherine Gordon. Ferdinand and Isabella would not want to align their daughter with a usurper.įor the next couple years Warbeck worked on a plan and tried to gain more supporters. Resolving the issue of the pretender was of utmost importance to both parties. During this time period Henry VII was negotiating the marriage of his son Arthur, Prince of Wales with Katherine of Aragon – daughter of Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile. There could not be two living Dukes of York in England.ġ493 was also the year Perkin Warbeck wrote a letter to Isabella of Castile looking for support while trying to convince her that he was indeed Richard. When Margaret continued to throw her support towards Perkin Warbeck Henry VII became angry and declared his son, Henry Tudor (future Henry VIII) as Duke of York in a magnificent ceremony. Margaret was sister to Edward lV and insisted that Warbeck was indeed her nephew and heir to the throne of England. In Flanders, Margaret of Burgundy (aunt to the princes in the Tower) had been unable to raise funds for the army she needed to assist her nephew in taking back the throne of England for the House of York. Nothing had happened in either Ireland or England. Margaret of Burgundyīy end of June of the same year (1493) the danger seemed over. Any legitimate, surviving son of Edward IV would be considered a threat to Henry’s crown. He also sent spies to dig up the truth of the new pretender to expose him as a fraud. Their job was to arrest those that may be involved or cause trouble for the throne. So seriously he dispatched 200 men to Ireland. Henry VII took the threat of Perkin Warbeck seriously. However, when the news of Perkin Warbeck arrived in England, Yorkist supporters jumped at the chance to back anyone who claimed to be Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York. The idea of another pretender must have seemed preposterous and fabricated at the time. Just six years earlier another boy by the name of Lambert Simnel claimed to be the young Duke of York but turned out to be a pretender. The last time the boys were seen in or around the grounds of the Tower of London was the summer of 1483 – they were never to be seen again.Ī decade later, in January 1493, news of a resurrected Duke of York (in Ireland) had reached London. This left an opening for their uncle Richard to take the throne himself. Edward’s coronation was to be on 22 June 1483, but before the young king could be crowned his father’s marriage to his mother Elizabeth Woodville was declared invalid – making their children illegitimate and ineligible for the throne. It was at Ludlow Castle that young Edward was notified of his father’s death and his succession to the throne – he was to travel to London immediately in preparation for his coronation. As he traveled from Ludlow, Richard (Lord Protector) met and escorted him to lodgings in the Tower of London. Edward’s brother, Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York joined him shortly after. Shortly before his sudden death on 9 April 1483, King Edward IV named his brother Richard, Duke of Gloucester, Lord Protector of the realm for the young Edward V, who was only 12 years old. His brother, Richard was born 17 August 1473 in Shrewsbury, England when Edward IV ruled over England once again. They were the sons of the late Edward IV and his queen, Elizabeth Woodville.Įdward V was born 2 November 1470 in Westminster Abbey where his mother had taken sanctuary from the Lancastrians who had deposed his father during the Wars of the Roses. In 1483 Edward V and Richard, Duke of York disappeared from the Tower of London.
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