Was Perkin Warbeck One of the Princes in the Tower? The Life of the World's Greatest Impostor?

Was Perkin Warbeck One of the Princes in the Tower? The Life of the World's Greatest Impostor? Between 1491 and 1497 a young man convinced the Emperor Maximilian, the King of Scots and much of the courts of Europe that he was Richard of York — the younger of the two princes in the Tower. Henry VII hanged him in 1499 as Perkin Warbeck, a boatman’s son from Tournai. This is the full case, in one video: the undisputed chronology from 1483 to the gallows, my own findings in the Hanseatic archives about how early Henry VII knew of him, and then all five documents in which Warbeck and Margaret of York set out his identity — read line by line, including the Latin phrase in Margaret’s appeal to the Pope that does not say what everyone assumes it says, and the Gelderland source found by Philippa Langley’s team. NOTE: the long quotations from the letters are given here in close paraphrase rather than verbatim translation. Chapters 00:00 I. Introduction 03:28 II. What Is Not in Dispute 04:52 III. France, Burgundy and the Habsburgs 08:23 IV. The Invasions 11:23 V. Cornwall, Capture and the Rope 14:03 VI. What I Found in the Hanseatic Records 17:37 VII. The Five Documents 19:01 VIII. Warbeck's Letter to Isabella 22:28 IX. Margaret's Letter to Isabella 24:20 X. Margaret's Appeal to the Pope 26:51 XI. The Proclamation 28:47 XII. The Gelderland Source 30:59 XIII. The Arguments That Are Not Documents 39:15 XIV. The Confessions 41:48 XV. Conclusion Related video My video on the Princes in the Tower:    • What happened to the Princes in the Tower?...   Sources and Further Reading • Warbeck’s letter to Isabella of Castile, 1493 • Margaret of York’s letter to Isabella of Castile • Margaret of York’s appeal to Pope Alexander VI (translation by the author) • Warbeck’s proclamation as ‘Richard IV’ • The Gelderland account, discovered by the Missing Princes Project • Hanseatic sources: Hansisches Urkundenbuch / Hanserecesse — Antwerp diet 1491, Danzig to Lübeck 18 March 1495, Bruges 1499 • James Gairdner, History of the Life and Reign of Richard the Third, with the Story of Perkin Warbeck, Cambridge 1898 • Ann Wroe, Perkin. A Story of Deception, London 2003 • Matthew Lewis, The Survival of the Princes in the Tower, Stroud 2017 • Josephine Wilkinson, The Princes in the Tower, Stroud 2013 • S. B. Chrimes, Henry VII, London 1972 Hashtags #PrincesInTheTower #PerkinWarbeck #TudorHistory