Perkin Warbeck

Perkin Warbeck

Perkin Warbeck (c. 1474 – 23 November 1499) was a pretender to the English throne claiming to be Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York, who was the second son of Edward IV and one of the so-called "Princes in the Tower". Richard, were he alive, would have been the rightful claimant to the throne, assuming that his elder brother Edward V was dead and that he was legitimate—a point that had been previously contested by his uncle, King Richard III. Due to the uncertainty as to whether Richard had died (either of some natural cause or having been murdered in the Tower of London) or whether he had somehow survived, Warbeck's claim gained some support. Followers may have truly believed Warbeck was Richard or may have supported him simply because of their desire to overthrow the reigning king, Henry VII, and reclaim the throne. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Perkin Warbeck has received more than 2,028,102 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Perkin Warbeck is the 177th most popular extremist (down from 146th in 2019), the 445th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 342nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Belgian Extremist.