Famous Impostors

Bram Stoker spent his last years collecting history's great frauds: pretenders to thrones, alchemists and witch-finders, the Tichborne Claimant — and the strange Cotswold legend that Queen Elizabeth was really a boy.

Perkin Warbeck

10 cases in this part of Famous Impostors.

Perkin Warbeck

RICHARD III literally carved his way to the throne of England. It would hardly be an exaggeration to say that he waded to it through blood…

Perkin Warbeck: Simnel

Simnel's span of notoriety was only a year, the close of which was attended with heavy slaughter Lon Barget Richarterre plene varbeck nasit…

Perkin Warbeck: Antwerp

A maternal aunt was married to Peter Flamme, Receiver of Tournay and also Dean of the Guild of Schelde Boatmen. A cousin, John Steinbeck…

Perkin Warbeck: Edward

About 1483 or 1484, on account of the Flemish War, Pierrequin left Tournay, proceeding to Antwerp, and to Middleburg, where he took service…

Perkin Warbeck: Pregent

After this he was with a Breton merchant, Pregent Meno, of whom he states incidentally: "he made me learn English." Pierrequin Werbecque…

Perkin Warbeck: Irish

It cannot be denied that the Irish people were in this matter as unstable as they were swift in their judgments, so that their actions are…

Perkin Warbeck: Kildare

At the end of the fifteenth century Ireland was still so far removed from England that even Warbeck's Irish successes, emphasised though…

Perkin Warbeck: Court

A noble at the Court of Louis XIV was extremely like the King, who on its being pointed out to him sent for his double and asked him: "Was…

Perkin Warbeck: Henry

After making an attempt to capture Waterford, the adventurer transferred the scene of his endeavours from Ireland to Scotland which offered…

Perkin Warbeck: Elizabeth

An Act of Parliament, 1 Richard III, Cap. 15, made at Westminster on the 23 Jan., 1485, precluded all possibility even if Warbeck should…

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