1499
Perkin Warbeck, in a sixteenth-century drawing attributed to Jacques Le Boucq.Image: Jacques Le Boucq · Public domainworld · Europe
Perkin Warbeck, pretender to the English throne, is hanged
For most of the 1490s a young man from Tournai, Perkin Warbeck, claimed to be Richard, Duke of York, the younger of the two ‘princes in the Tower’, and so the rightful king of England. Backed at times by the rulers of Burgundy and Scotland, he became a serious threat to the first Tudor king, Henry VII. After a failed rising in Cornwall in 1497 Warbeck was captured and confessed his true identity. Held at court and then in the Tower of London, he was accused of plotting to escape, and on 23 November 1499 he was hanged at Tyburn.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: Perkin Warbeck ↗
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