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Perkin Warbeck

Following the accession of Henry VII to the English throne, many remained loyal to the Yorkist cause and when a young man appeared, claiming to be the missing, believed murdered, Prince Richard, Duke of York, he gained much support from those opposed to the Tudor usurper.

Perkin Warbeck was born at Tournai, Flanders in 1474, the son of a renegade Jew called John Warbeck. He travelled to Ireland as a servant to Pierre Jean Meno, a silk merchant and it was there that he was first misidentified as royalty while dressed in the fine clothes of his master and was thought to be the Earl of Warwick which he denied and then claimed to be Richard, Duke of York, heir to the English throne, who was presumed to have been murdered with his brother in the Tower in 1483 by Richard III.
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