The Pretenders: Challenging King Henry VII

On 22nd August 1485, supports of Henry Tudor, Duke of Richmond unhorsed and killed King Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth. To history this was the moment that ended the Wars of the Roses but we must be careful about reading history backwards – just because Henry VII would die in his bed as king and be succeeded peacefully by his son and heir doesn’t mean that he knew he could rest easy during his reign – today we’re looking at two people who would have threatened his calm – the pretenders to his throne…

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Images (from Wikimedia Commons, unless otherwise stated):

Detail from an etching of King Richard III, Queen Anne, Edward, Prince of Wales, Margaret, Countess of Salisbury and Edward, Earl of Warwick after an unknown artist (early 19th century). Held by the National Portrait Gallery.

Portrait of George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence by Lucas Cornelisz de Kock (16th century). Held in an unknown private collection.

Engraving of Lambert Simnel from the Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Ed. Vol XXV. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1910. p.124.

Portrait of Margaret, Duchess of Burgundy by an unknown artist. Held by the Louvre Museum.

Illuminated manuscript miniature of Margaret of York before the resurrected Christ (15th century). Held by the British Library, MS Add 7970, f. 1v.

Portrait of King Henry VII by an unknown artist (1505). Held by the National Portrait Gallery.

“The Princes in the Tower” by John Everett Millais (1878). Held by the Royal Holloway collection.

“The Children of Edward IV” by Paul Delaroche (1831). Held by the Louvre Museum.

Portrait of Emperor Maximilian I by Albrecht Dürer (1519). Held by the Kunsthistorisches Museum.

Portrait of James IV of Scotland by an unknown artist (17th century). Held by the National Galleries Scotland.

Drawing of Perkin Warbeck by an unknown artist (late 15th century). Held in an unknown collection.

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