Perkin Warbeck

Question 1

Dates

Answer 1

1493-1499

Question 2

Who

Answer 2

Perkin Warbeck was a Yorkist pretender, claimed to be Richard Duke of York

Question 3

Who backed Warbeck

Answer 3

France, Burgundy and Scotland

Question 4

Objectives

Answer 4

Reach Whitehall, overthrow Henry

Question 5

Supporters

Answer 5

-Irish interest
-Small number of English nobles
-Disaffected Yorkistswrchamts unhappy with trade embargoes
-Henry’s step uncle
-Lord Chamberlain
-Lord Fitzwater
(After landing in Taunton 1497)
-6000 Cornish miners, artisans and farmers

Question 6

Government preemptive measures

Answer 6

-network of spies
E.g Edward Brampton in Flanders
Sir Robert Clifford in Yorkist circles
-discovered treason of Sir William Stanley through spies

Question 7

Consequences

Answer 7

-51 people caught and hanged
-150 people out on trial

Question 8

Defense against Warbeck

Answer 8

-Earl of Devon waited at Exeter
-Willoughby de Broke gathered ships at Portsmouth to block escape
-Daubenay gathered troops

Question 9

Was Warbeck acknowledged

Answer 9

Eighth Earl of Kildare acknowledged Warbeck as King