What is Perkin Warbeck?
{{Infobox person | name = | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date =1474 | birth_place =Tournai, Flanders (now Belgium) | death_date =23 November 1499 | death_place =Tyburn, England | height = | spouse = | nationality = | other_names = | occupation = | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }} '''Perkin Warbeck''' ({{circa}} 1474 - 23 November 1499) was an impostor<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X3MqEAAAQBAJ|title=Henry VII and the Tudor Pretenders: Simnel, Warbeck, and Warwick|last=Amin|first=Nathen|date=2021-04-15|publisher=Amberley Publishing Limited|isbn=978-1-4456-7509-1|language=en}}</ref> and pretender<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y1wrDwAAQBAJ|title=The Survival of the Princes in the Tower: Murder, Mystery and Myth|last=Lewis|first=Matthew|date=2017-09-11|publisher=The History Press|isbn=978-0-7509-8528-4|language=en}}</ref> to the English throne during the reign of [[Henry VII of England]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_rk7AwAAQBAJ|title=The Perkin Warbeck Conspiracy|last=Arthurson|first=Ian|date=2009-10-04|publisher=The History Press|isbn=978-0-7524-9563-7|language=en}}</ref> He claimed to be Richard of Shrewsbury, one of the Princes in the Tower. He attempted to invade England but was captured after the [[Second Cornish Uprising]] (1497) and executed.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oBZ8TlnkTs8C|title=Perkin|last=Wroe|first=Ann|date=2010-08-31|publisher=Random House|isbn=978-1-4090-1826-1|language=en}}</ref> == References == {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Warbeck, Perkin}} [[Category:1474 births]] [[Category:1499 deaths]] [[Category:Executed English people]] {{bio-stub}}