Medievalists.net » Perkin Warbeck http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Perkin Warbeck and King James IV of Scotland http://www.medievalists.net/2013/09/24/perkin-warbeck-and-king-james-iv-of-scotland/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/09/24/perkin-warbeck-and-king-james-iv-of-scotland/#comments Tue, 24 Sep 2013 16:27:47 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=43815 Whether James believed Warbeck was really Richard or not, he viewed Warbeck as a pawn to be used to recover the castle town of Berwick and in the diplomatic war with England.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/09/24/perkin-warbeck-and-king-james-iv-of-scotland/feed/ 0 Perkin Warbeck: Whether my hero was or was not an impostor, he was believed to be the true man by his contemporaries http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/02/perkin-warbeck-whether-my-hero-was-or-was-not-an-impostor-he-was-believed-to-be-the-true-man-by-his-contemporaries/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/02/perkin-warbeck-whether-my-hero-was-or-was-not-an-impostor-he-was-believed-to-be-the-true-man-by-his-contemporaries/#comments Sun, 02 Dec 2012 08:53:55 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=37677 So what about the famous confession? By historians in the Tudor tradition this is usually seen as absolute proof that he was an impostor, arguing that "there is nothing in [his] confession which should make us doubt his truthfulness". Somehow they cannot have looked at it too closely.

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