Co-incidentally when Katherine lived in Wales with her third husband she lived eight miles from Reynoldston where it is just possible that her son grew up. [6], In 1789, workmen carrying out repairs in St George's Chapel, Windsor, rediscovered and accidentally broke into the vault of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville. 1498. I’m sure if I think I can come up with a few more clichés. Richard Wilson OBE (born Iain Carmichael Wilson; 9 July 1936) is a Scottish actor, theatre director and broadcaster. This was acknowledged at court in Dover, June 8th, 1681 The land Richard willed to his son, Benjamin, is now in New Market, some is still in Dover. In one version of events he and his men were running low on their supplies, in another version he accepted the terms offered by the Duke of Somerset, which offered peace throughout the festive season but Somerset reneged on his word. Speculation is not history but it is a good story. He was created Earl of Nottingham on 12 June 1476. Richard was first married to Maureen Murray, with whom he had two children —Paige and Aidan — but they divorced. He was one of the Lancastrian commanders at the Battle of Ferrybridge but was killed the following day at Towton. Formative years. What if Richard was the progeny of a cuckoo in the nest? Wroe records that a family on the Gower claim descent from one Richard Perkins, son of Perkin Warbeck. The story begins with Richard III. Do not think it below yourself to obey love’s dictates. The effigy at the start of this blog was identified as belonging to Margaret by the Courtenay and Beaufort arms. Bones reportedly belonging to two children were discovered in 1674 by workmen rebuilding a stairway in the Tower. Dukedoms. Arthurson, Ian. In checking the info on Your posting, I recently found out that the two websites who traced my Yorkes to Richard Plantagenet are strongly disputed by about 20 other websites including yours, who say my actual ancestor is Richard Yorke, Chamberlain, Sheriff and Mayorof York, b. My Hunter/Yorke charts have been deleted for now. Folk believed that he wanted the crown for himself even though he was always loyal to his nephew the young Richard II. 1.Chapter Records XXIII to XXVI, The Chapter Library, St. George's Chapel, Lord Neville’s mother was Elizabeth Holland the daughter of the Earl of Kent – so ultimately descended from King Edward I. No public or recorded meeting ever took place between Elizabeth and Warbeck. He’s a chap who’s provided history with more than one mystery and now there’s another to add to the collection. 1..Chapter Records XXIII to XXVI, The Chapter Library, St. George's Chapel, Windsor (Permission required) 2..William St. John Hope: "Windsor Castle: An Architectural History", pages 418–419. Ultimately, the fact that someone passed off the child of their lover as legitimate makes no difference whatsoever to the events of the Wars of the Roses or the monarchy thereafter but what it does do is add another fascinating layer to a story that already has many complex twists and turns. What I’m really blogging about this evening are the findings from the Leicester University that were all over the weekend’s papers – the quicksand bit of history. On the orders of King Charles II, these were subsequently placed in Westminster Abbey, in an urn bearing the names of Edward and Richard. The problem was that he could find no reference to Warbeck before the age of nine. Lady Katherine Gordon met Richard,‘Duke of York‘ in 1495, pictured at the start of this post, when he arrived in Scotland having decamped from Ireland where he’d failed to convince the citizens of Waterford of his identity. Over the next six years Warbeck travelled across Europe, receiving recognition from a number of monarchs including Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor and James IV of Scotland as "Richard IV" of England. This means, that her paternal grandparents were John of Gaunt and Katherine Swynford. The little family; Warbeck, Lady Katherine and their son Richard boarded a boat at Ayr and headed to Ireland where Warbeck met with resounding indifference. When Richard needed a public justification for his claim to the throne in 1483 the rumour was aired again. Warbeck (or Richard) was married to a beautiful lady named Catherine Gordon. Edward, earl of Warwick (son of George duke of Clarence- the one who drowned in a vat of Malmsey) and Warbeck were placed in adjoining rooms. You, the brightest ornament in Scotland, farewell, farewell.”, Wroe, Ann. In Andre’s account Katherine reviles Warbeck and turns to Henry VII as the personification of kingly heroism. Anne Holland and her only child, Anne, would gain Holland’s estates. He claimed to have escaped from the Tower and spent the intervening years on the run. (1913). Warbeck was hanged at Tyburn whilst Warwick had his head chopped off – a reminder that Warbeck was a common man rather than a prince. A man was murdered, the Earl’s son Thomas was implicated. Margaret Beaufort’s husband died almost ten years after his wife at Abingdon Abbey in 1458 and was succeeded by his son who’d been cleared of the murder of Nicholas Radford. And that might have been that had it not been for Margaret of Anjou – one of those significant women of the Wars of the Roses- who became the Earl’s patroness; married his son and heir off to one of her own kinswomen, provided him with status and put Bonville in his place – ensuring that the earl was loyal to the Lancaster cause thereafter– something that Margaret Beaufort hadn’t been able to achieve during her marriage to the earl. He is the eldest of the four sons born to his father, Colin, and mother, Margaret. It is thought that Margaret Courtenay nee Beaufort, Countess of Devon is buried in St Andrew’s Church Colyton. As the kingdom unraveled into civil war things in Devon weren’t going any better between the Earl of Devon and Lord Bonville. Their Y chromosomes are much more pedestrian. Edward was addressed as ‘the king’s brother’ in recognition of their proposed marriages to sisters, even long after Edward’s planned marriage had fallen through. [8], In 1491 in Cork, Perkin Warbeck, a young man of Flemish origin was proclaimed by a variety of Yorkist supporters led by the Irish city's former Mayor John Atwater to be Richard. Their gaoler was an ex-rebel. From this time on, it became a tradition for the second son of the English sovereign to be Duke of York. The future Richard III was the fourth son of Richard, 3rd duke of York (died 1460), and his duchess, Cecily Neville, to survive to adulthood. Her forces were recorded at Pontefract, Hull and then further north. For whatever reason York found himself engaged in battle thinking that Sir John Neville would arrive to reinforce him. John of Gaunt wasn’t popular in England. Richard’s arrival in Sandal revealed that the castle didn’t have enough stores to feed the extra mouths – and not enough space either- lots of Richard’s soldiers spent a chilly Christmas under canvas. Much more poignant  is Perkin’s letter to Lady Katherine: “Most noble lady, it is not without reason that all turn their eyes to you; that all admire love and obey you. From this time on, it became a tradition for the second son of the English sovereign to be Duke of York. Anne would remarry Thomas St Leger and die in childbirth – another Anne. As we saw, he used the alias of Sir Henry Gylford… Hans Holbein the Younger ‘Sir Henry Guildford’ 1527. and history tells us that around 1525, Sir Henry married Lady Mary Gylford… Hans Holbein ‘Lady Mary Guildford’. [9], As son of the king, Richard was granted use of the arms of the kingdom, differentiated by a label argent, on the first point a canton gules.[10]. Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window), Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window), Lady Katherine Gordon – Mrs Perkin Warbeck, Genealogical Chronicle of the English Kings, Heirs of the English crown who pre-deceased their parent or grandparent, Henry Hastings 3rd Earl of Huntingdon. There was James Strangeways; Matthew Craddock – a Welshman so licence had to be granted for her to travel to Wales; finally there was Christopher Ashton. Unfortunately the attack on England only lasted three days on account of the fact that the people of Northumberland did not rise up in support of the so-called Duke of York. Because York's father-in-law's dukedom had become extinct when Anne could not inherit it, he was created Duke of Norfolk and Earl Warennne o… Polydore Vergil notes that Henry fell in love with Lady Katherine Gordon – how his wife felt about that is not recorded. She reverted once more in official documents to being her father’s daughter yet there was no divorce and assorted ambassadors reported that the couple remained a couple even though they were not permitted to cohabit. Katherine continued to live in England. Elizabeth's mother, Elizabeth Woodville, and Margaret Beaufort , mother of Henry Tudor, a Lancastrian claiming to be heir to the throne, planned another future for Elizabeth of York: marriage to Henry Tudor when he overthrew Richard III. ), claimant to the English throne whose attempts to gain power helped precipitate the Wars of the Roses (1455–85) between the houses of Lancaster and York; he controlled the government for brief periods during the first five years of this struggle. Evidence for Warbeck having Plantagenet blood of any description in his veins is lacking. RICHARD, DUKE OF YORK (c.1410-1460), was the son of Richard, Earl of Cambridge, by Anne, daughter of Roger, Earl of March. What I do recall is that I progressed from the facts to Josephine Tey’s Daughter in Time in the space of an afternoon and at the age of eleven became hooked on historical fiction. 4. It was a national scandal reported in the Paston Letters. She travelled slowly to Exeter and from there to Sheen. Henry apparently fell hard for her and couldn't bring himself to kill her husband, at least not right away. Elizabeth of York as a married woman is portrayed a meek and compliant, but perhaps she was forced to be submissive. King Edward IV had Sir John declared a traitor and his estate confiscated by act of attainder…another happy fifteenth century family story. She then moved to New York for better prospects, and that’s where she met her future husband, Richard. John’s older brother Ralph became the Second Earl of Westmorland – but a rather impoverished one. Early in 1499 another pretender sprouted and the Spanish refused to send Catherine of Aragon to England until all Yorkist would-be kings were removed from the equation. Adjoining this was another vault, which was found to contain the coffins of two children. Or indeed not quite what he seemed. Prince Richard was created Duke of York in May 1474 and made a Knight of the Garter the following year. Richard of Gloucester, Edward's younger brother, seized the Prince of Wales, and threw the queen's brother, Lord Rivers, and son, Thomas Grey, into prison. Richard and his older brother, who briefly reigned as King Edward V of England, mysteriously disappeared shortly after Richard III became king in 1483. Farewell, my soul and consolation. 418–419. Did Brampton groom him for the role of prince? The Duke of York was sent to the Tower of London, then a royal residence, by King Richard III in mid-1483, where he was held with his brother. Richard, Duke of York was in Pontoise while Cecily was in Rouen. Ralph favoured his second crop of children rather than those by his first wife (Lady Margaret Stafford). Unsurprisingly, they were both found guilty of treason and executed. He was executed in the aftermath of the Battle of Towton in April 1461 an attainted traitor. When Warbeck invaded Cornwall and marched north to Bodmin and from there to Exeter Lady Katherine initially remained at St Michael’s Mount. The Regency council under the late King's brother Richard, Duke of Gloucester, concluded that this was a case of bigamy, invalidating the second marriage and the legitimacy of all children of Edward IV by this marriage. Princess Margaret Tudor was the eldest daughter of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, born on 29 November 1489. Nothing was done for Lord Howard. She was after all married to the man who had claimed to be Elizabeth’s brother. Perkin A Story of Deception London: Jonathan Cape. A later role was as Gaius, the court physician of Camelot, in the BBC drama … James’ support extended to a raid on behalf of Warbeck. One thing led to another. She was the chief mourner at Elizabeth of York’s funeral in 1503. He confessed to being an impostor, and was later executed following an attempt to escape. Perkin’s confession of 5th October 1497 confirmed that he was the son of John de Werbecque and his wife, Katherine de Faro. On 15 January 1478, in St. Stephen's Chapel, Westminster, when he was about 4 years old, he married the 5-year-old Anne de Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk, who had inherited the vast Mowbray estates in 1476. If I represent to my mind all your perfections, I am not only compelled to love, to adore and to worship you, but love makes me your slave. If he was an imposter surely there would have been no risk in this? I mean, I can see how Duchess Cecily Neville (the wife of Richard of York and mother to Edward IV and Richard III) might have fancied a fling with a tall handsome archer (more of that in a moment) but how on earth would a butcher have met, let alone struck up a conversation that progressed to a liaison with the English queen? What happened to the two of them—the Princes in the Tower—after their disappearance remains unknown. Though Elizabeth of York was by that declaration made illegitimate, Richard III was rumored to have had plans to marry her. Instead of coming to his half uncle and the duke’s aid Neville promptly changed sides and became a Lancastrian. Amongst them was Richard’s own son-in-law Henry Holland, duke of Exeter. I wonder if the Earl of Devon gnashed his teeth and wailed when he thought about the way that events in distant London conspired to set him at a disadvantage against his enemy who seemed to have a knack of making important friends. The rumour floated to the surface at a time when George, Duke of Clarence took a shine to the crown and its not difficult to see that George might have used gossip for his own ends (supposition again). Henry VIII granted her lands in Berkshire which had once been owned by John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln on the proviso she didn’t travel abroad without royal licence. Perkin Warbeck was the son of a Tournai Customs official. 1316), she married Walter Stewart, 6th High Steward of Scotland; In 1302 Robert married his second wife Elizabeth de Burgh. [7], In 1486 Richard of Shrewsbury's eldest sister Elizabeth married Henry VII, thereby uniting the Houses of York and Lancaster. History being what it is there are other sources, including the coat of arms above Katherine’s monument in Swansea, which identifies clearly in her coat of arms that her mother was actually the third wife of George Gordon, Elizabeth Hay.

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